M365 Copilot vs Claude Cowork with Sharon Weaver

About this episode

Richard chats with Sharon Weaver about the competition between M365 Copilot and Claude Cowork in the Office productivity space.

There's competition in the Office productivity space! Richard chats with Sharon Weaver about her experiences with M365 Copilot and Anthropic's Claude Cowork to improve information worker productivity. Sharon talks about the confusion around all the different copilots in the Microsoft space - including the chat tools, research agents, and more. But when it comes to helping with an Excel spreadsheet, M365 Copilot can't do what Claude Cowork can do. Sharon talks about describing the goals of a spreadsheet to Claude Cowork and having the tool generate the spreadsheet, make corrections, and add formatting. Cowork has similar capabilities for presentations, and with the Connector library, new functionality is being added routinely. There's some competition in the AI productivity space - things are getting interesting!

People in this episode

Host: Richard Campbell

Guest: Sharon Weaver

Topics covered

• Office productivity
• AI tools
• M365 Copilot
• Claude Cowork
• information worker productivity
• Excel
• presentations

Keywords

• M365 Copilot
• Claude Cowork
• productivity
• AI
• Excel
• presentations
• Microsoft
• Anthropic

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Anthropic, Microsoft

Products: M365 Copilot, Claude Cowork

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