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Office 365 Copilot Pricing: $30/month per user
- zzbn00 3y ago$30/month for a mail/document filter which automatically junks AI-generated material would be better value....
- solardev 3y agoI'd pay 10x that for it to just attend the meetings on my behalf, pretend to be me, and summarize them afterward into actionable bullet points. "Have your AI talk to my AI."
- tibbydudeza 3y agoAttend my Teams meeting choosing an avatar that nods occasionally and laugh as jokes are told and give appropriate non committal responses like "Hmm" - "Let me get back to you about that"
- solardev 3y agoWhoa. Are you my coworker? Are you ME?
- spacemanspiff01 3y agoForget that, have all members of a meeting be ai, each person gives them talking points. It will either break things, or the meeting was pointless in the first case.
- JohnFen 3y agoNow that would be useful!!
- MrMorden 3y ago"I'll have lunch with your machine."
- Spooky23 3y agoI do that already - it’s called an assistant. More like 300x, but my job is too complicated for an LLM to effectively communicate with todays tech.
- tiffanyh 3y agoFor context, - E3 tier cost $36/month - E5 tier cost $57/month So this is a substantial increase in pricing for this capability. Essentially 2x the cost of E3 tier which include the entire office suite + hosting https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/enterprise/microsoft365-plans-and-pricing https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/enterprise/mic...
- tracker1 3y agoI'm guessing it's not that bad, considering the resource costs for actually running the AI interaction. The Github Copilot is a much smaller audience, and probably a much smaller dataset as well that allowed good test results for the larger product. All said, I don't use Word or Outlook enough that I'd pay that much for it, it just isn't worth it to me. But I know a lot of people that absolutely would.
- FirmwareBurner 3y agoSince the price is per individual employee, I can already see my ex-company CEO paying it for him, but not for the rest of the company, the same way he was always buying himself the latest fully-loaded MacBook Pro with 5K display at every new launch to write emails and use Slack, while the engineers building the products were still using Dells with 8GB RAM and 1080p monitors.
- Freedom2 3y agoThis community here at HN has taught me that CEOs often do work that us engineers are not aware of. It's possible that your ex CEO was doing work that required such a machine.
- deprecative 3y agoHighly doubtful. The CEO is probably out on a golf course or pretending to look at a slide show.
- FirmwareBurner 3y agoAnd the engineers weren't? His MacBook was just an Office 365 and iCloud machine.
- pithon 3y agoDon't many engineers just use their laptop as a thin client to remote into servers?
- FirmwareBurner 3y agoNot us, we did FW dev. Not every SW engineer is a web dev working in cloud, even on HN. Also in web dev many run and test things locally so working with good machines helps. Also, the equipment you get shows you how little a company values its engineers and how much it values its management. If they insist on giving you the cheapest bottom of the barrel laptop and monitors they can find, they probably won't pay you competitively as well. A lesson I found the hard way.
- JoeJonathan 3y agoWell, looks like I'll never be using copilot.
- tracker1 3y agoI'm on the free/floss tier for Github Copilot, it's basically a really advanced autocomplete and not bad at boilerplate work... best example, was writing SQL for an initial schema, having an AppUser table and a Role table, the completion for AppUserRole was spot on. Other stuff, less so but still relatively helpful. Not sure about the Office version though, the pricing is probably appropriate for the actual resources it uses, if you use Word or Outlook enough for it to make a difference. I don't see too many individuals who aren't students using it enough to be worth it. But there are definitely a handful in probably ever company with over a hundred people in it.
- wintermutestwin 3y agoIf Copilot is actually good at taking an outline and making fluffy slides to present to execs, I’d pay 5x that without blinking. As I doubt it, I am looking to fiver…
- pcurve 3y agoDoesn't seem like a bad price consider how much other enterprise Saas products cost per seat. Costs do add up to hefty amount unfortunately.