Copilot Pro features are included in Windows 365 subscription plans in certain countries. An “asset” that pays for itself.
Like its competitors Google or OpenAI (ChatGPT), Microsoft offers its users the opportunity to benefit from a more efficient version of its artificial intelligence Copilot, for a monthly subscription of €22. A formula that would be difficult to take, if this strategic turnaround in certain countries of the Pacific and South-East Asia is to be believed. A taste of what awaits us in Europe?
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The Copilot Pro option smoothed over other subscriptions
Since the launch of Copilot Pro earlier this year, subscribers can integrate certain AI functionalities into flagship Windows software, such as Word, Outlook, Excel or PowerPoint. But judging by what is being implemented in Malaysia, Taiwan, New Zealand and Australia, the mayonnaise would have difficulty taking hold.
In these countries, and in a few other Asian countries, Microsoft has in fact decided to directly integrate the Copilot Pro functionalities into its software in the Windows 365 suite. A suite offered to us from €10 per month and which allows to access the software mentioned above in the cloud.
But what Microsoft gives with one hand, it takes back with the other. The countries affected by this merger of plans will see the price of their Windows 365 subscription increase. In Australia, we are talking about an increase of around €3 per month. More advantageous than Copilot Pro? Yes… but no.
A system of limited credits
If we can easily say that, all in all, the user benefits (although he must have the usefulness of artificial intelligence), Microsoft does not simply transpose Copilot Pro in Windows 365. This is indeed a limited version. Not in performance, but in availability.
Like Adobe with its Firefly AI, the American firm has set up a credit system allowing you to use the features of Copilot. Clearly, subscribers receive a certain amount of credits every month allowing them to use Copilot Pro in their documents.
Microsoft seems determined to force the hand of its users with this new strategy. This revised plan, and therefore more expensive, is in fact selected by default by people who are already subscribed to Windows 365 and whose subscription will be automatically renewed. To escape this, you must therefore terminate your contract before signing up for a new one… devoid of artificial intelligence.
