Microsoft Copilot & Dell: Transform how you work with innovation at your fingertips

Stop wasting time and work smarter: master Microsoft Copilot!

Feeling like a productivity hamster on a wheel? Enter Microsoft Copilot, a game-changer promising to reshape how we work, unleashing creativity, enhancing productivity, and elevating skill sets. Dell’s integration of the latest Updates with Copilot in Windows[1] across its product range, including the cutting-edge Dell Trusted Latitude devices, redefines the office and remote workplace dynamics. Moreover, the latest Dell laptops include a dedicated Copilot key that provides immediate access to AI functionality across the operating system. These Dell innovations provide a seamless, optimized experience, setting new benchmarks for security, productivity, and collaborative work environments.

For the busy enterprise user, this combination is unmatched: Dell’s superior hardware features and Copilot’s AI capabilities not only provide better answers, increase efficiency, and offer instant creativity, they also offer top-notch commercial data protection, so that users can rest easy knowing their info stays safe and sound within the company walls.

Copilot in Microsoft 365[2] uses a combination of content and the user’s working context to help provide accurate, relevant, and contextual responses and is integrated into the apps you use every day – Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and more. Let’s dive into Copilot’s magic and see how it transforms the way you work and elevates your productivity.

Unleashing creativity in documents

Traditionally, the blank page syndrome has plagued many creatives and professionals alike. However, with Copilot integrated into Microsoft Word, this dilemma becomes a relic of the past. By mastering the user’s natural language, Copilot jump-starts the creative process, generating content, editing drafts, and even summarizing ideas in real-time.

The great thing with Copilot is that, instead of letting you choose from generic templates, it helps you create new content based directly on your own previously existing personal or corporate data. It can generate a draft in the format you typically use, including product images and relevant visuals from other files you own or have access to thanks to your corporate account.

Enhancing presentations

Crafting captivating presentations often requires a spark of inspiration. Copilot extends its assistance to Microsoft PowerPoint, empowering you to transform concepts into compelling visual narratives effortlessly, and allowing to quickly create professional-looking presentations without starting from scratch.

Copilot can add and format slides on command through simple instructions. It can also generate speaker notes to help the presenter be more prepared. Simply by telling it what to do, it can make a slide more verbose or more image oriented, picking relevant pictures from your data pool in a style that conforms to your corporate guidelines.

On Dell’s hardware, these presentations come to life with vibrant displays and exceptional sound quality, ensuring your ideas not only look but also sound persuasive.

Efficient email management

An overflowing email inbox can be overwhelming and can consume a significant portion of one’s day. Copilot in Outlook can summarize an email thread by scrolling down and up in the email conversation above the reading pane. Clicking on “summary by Copilot” generates a summary with citation numbers.

By intelligently prioritizing messages, drafting responses, and organizing correspondence, Copilot enables users to clear their inbox efficiently, reclaiming valuable time for more strategic endeavours.

Dell’s robust processing power ensures that these functions operate seamlessly, allowing for quick and efficient email management, even when handling large volumes of data.

Sparking intelligent communication

Copilot in Microsoft Teams is an incredibly powerful tool that has revolutionized the way we collaborate and communicate in meetings. With its ability to summarize key points, suggest action items, and provide intelligent recap of discussions, Copilot helps teams stay on track and make the most of their time together. Its natural language processing capabilities allow it to understand and interpret the context of the meeting, providing relevant and accurate summaries that help teams quickly get up to speed on important discussions.

Additionally, Copilot’s ability to suggest action items and assign tasks to team members streamlines the decision-making process, ensuring that important tasks are not overlooked or forgotten. Microsoft’s software and Dell’s hardware work impeccably and efficiently together, providing an unmatched collaborative experience.

Uncover data insights

There are those who think that proficiency in Excel is a measure of intelligence. Today, you’re the master: with Microsoft Copilot in Excel, it’s like having a data analyst by your side who can make you better understand what your data means, finding useful trends, correlations, key metrics and new ways to visualize and organize your data.

Copilot in Excel provides suggestions for formulas, shows insights in charts and PivotTables, and highlights interesting data. To use Copilot, just select a cell or range of cells, format as a table, and use the Copilot chat pane, without having to open additional menus or dialog boxes.

You can directly tell Copilot to transform your data sheet, i.e. “bold the top values in the sales column” or accomplish an action without knowing the corresponding formula – Excel will find it for you – all you have to do is describe in plain language what you want to do.

Copilot: Your Knowledge Navigator

Leveraging on the robust security and processing features of Dell’s client devices, Copilot aggregates data from diverse sources – emails, files, meetings, and more, and transforms information into actionable insights. Acting as a knowledge navigator, it ensures teams stay aligned, accelerating decision-making processes and fostering collaboration, all while minimizing the time spent toggling between disparate tools.

Additionally, the seamless, managed access to Copilot through your existing Microsoft ID has made it easy to integrate this powerful tool into your existing systems and even directly on the Copilot, Edge, Bing, and Microsoft 365 mobile apps, right at the palm of your hand.

The power of Copilot with Dell

Dell client systems are the ideal platform to deliver all these exciting new user experiences fuelled by the power of Generative AI. In 2024, Dell introduced some of the first laptops equipped with a Copilot key that gives immediate access to AI functionality and allows users to have system-wide support, guidance, and assistance in whatever they do. These AI-ready systems are built with GenAI in mind, with better hardware and software capabilities that their legacy counterparts.

So, with Copilot by your side,

    • What exciting new project will you tackle?
    • What new skill will you learn?
    • What new passion will you pursue?
    • What creative endeavour will you finally have time for?
    • What will you conquer next?

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[1] Timing of feature delivery and availability varies by market and device. Use Copilot with a Microsoft Account or use Copilot with commercial data protection at no additional cost by signing into a work or school account (Microsoft Entra ID) with Microsoft 365 E3, E5, F3, A3 or A5 for faculty, Business Premium, and Business Standard. Coming to more Entra ID users over time.

[2] 2 Copilot for Microsoft 365 is available with a Microsoft 365 E3 license and additional licensing.

About the Author: Raed Hijer

Raed Hijer is a Senior Principal Engineer and a Client Solution Technologist within Client Solutions, at Dell Technologies. His expertise in complex client solutions such as workstations, VDI, Gen AI and others is instrumental in helping his customers to leverage these technologies to create a business advantage. He is an emerging technologies evangelist with passion to stay abreast of the latest trends and how Dell Technologies can bring them to live. Raed is a patented engineer with several publications in the areas of Machine Learning, Image Processing and PCB Design. Likewise, his passion and appetite for public speaking have established him as a regular fixture at industry events such as Dell Technologies Forums, Customers Executive Briefings, and other Industry Events. Raed holds a Master of Science degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Tennessee.