Microsoft 365 Copilot Cowork Explained with Bas Brekelmans, Software Engineer at Microsoft

About this episode

Bas Brekelmans discusses the architecture and use cases of Microsoft 365 Copilot Cowork.

Bas Brekelmans, Software Engineer at Microsoft, focused on Microsoft 365 Copilot Cowork, explains its architecture and use cases. • How Copilot Cowork runs entirely in the Cloud, unlike local machine-based alternatives, enabling enterprise-grade security, audit and compliance • The multi-model approach using Anthropic's Sonnet and Opus, with the flexibility to switch to the best available model • Built-in and personal skills for calendar management, document generation and automated workfl...

People in this episode

Host: Tom Arbuthnot

Guest: Bas Brekelmans

Topics covered

• Microsoft 365 Copilot
• Cloud architecture
• Enterprise security
• Document generation
• Calendar management

Keywords

• Microsoft 365
• Copilot Cowork
• Cloud
• security
• audit
• compliance
• document generation
• calendar management

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Microsoft

Products: Microsoft 365 Copilot Cowork, Anthropic's Sonnet, Opus

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