Your Microsoft OneDrive storage is about to get smarter thanks to this time-saving Copilot feature

Date:
Mon, 05 Feb 2024 14:48:42 +0000

Description:
It might be time for me to switch over to OneDrive with this new Copilot-powered feature coming soon

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Microsofts on fire recently with the addition of some super-useful features thanks to its artificial intelligence assistant Copilot , and it looks like OneDrive is finally getting a much-needed AI boost. Soon, youll be able to search through your files without having to open them to find the relevant info simply by asking Copilot the question you want answered.

Say youre looking for a specific figure or quote but you have too many files to start searching, or youre like me and dont organize anything into folders at all (oops). Instead of opening every document and scanning through to find the specific bit of info youre looking for, youll be able to pull up Copilot and tell it what you want to find. You could ask it to find a specific bit of info from a lecture presentation, or group project, and Copilot will go through the files and provide the relevant answers.

According to MSPoweruser , this feature will work across multiple file types including DOC, DOCX, PDF, TXT, and more, so you wont be restricted to just Word documents.

The feature is included in Microsofts 365 roadmap , due to be released to users sometime in May 2024. Hopefully, well see this trickle down to Microsofts free Office for Web suite (formerly known as Office Online) which includes an in-browser version of Microsoft Word and 5GB of OneDrive cloud storage. A win for the unorganized girlies

This feature alone is enough to entice me away from Google Drive just for the convenience alone. Theres nothing worse than having to crawl through your folders and files to find something youre looking for.

I would have appreciated this feature when I was at university, especially with how many notes and textbooks I had scattered around my school One Drive account. By bringing Copilot into the mix, I could have found whatever I was looking for so much faster and saved myself from a fair amount of panic.

If you work in an industry where youre constantly dealing with new documents with critical information every day, or a student consistently downloading research papers or textbooks, this new addition to Copilot's nifty AI-powered skill set is well worth keeping an eye out for.

While I am disappointed this feature will be locked behind the Microsoft 365 subscription , its not surprising - Microsoft is investing a lot of time and money into Copilot, so it makes sense that it would use its more advanced features to encourage people to pay to subscribe to Microsoft 365. However, theres a danger that if it paywalls all the most exciting features, Copilot could struggle to be as popular as it deserves to be. Microsoft wont want another Clippy or Cortana on its hands. You might also like... Windows 11 users cant get enough of Copilot, apparently thats why Microsoft supersized the AIs panel Did we just catch our first glimpse of Windows 12? Qualcomm
exec says next-gen Windows coming mid-2024 but will it be Windows 12?



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Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/computing/windows/your-microsoft-onedrive-storage-is -about-to-get-smarter-thanks-to-this-time-saving-copilot-feature


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