In a roadmap of Microsoft 365identified by Neowinthe company revealed some future plans for introducing theArtificial intelligence are OneDrive. According to what emerged, from next May it will in fact be possible to use Copilot to manage files on the Microsoft cloud platform.

In the document in question, the Redmond company explains how the AI ​​assistant will be able to obtain information from files, without having to actually open the documents. The file extensions that can be managed by Copilot will be:

• DOC
• DOCX
• FLUID
• LOOP
• PPT
• PPTX
• XLSX
• PDF
• ODT
• ODP
• RTF
• ASPX
• RTF
• TXT
• HTM
• HTML

All this to offer maximum freedom of action to the user, capable of identifying, for example, text fragments without having to open and interact with dozens of files. This, for some working contexts, could lead to a small revolution capable of saving money time and energy to employees.

Copilot and OneDrive: a synergy that could be the turning point for many offices

As explicitly implied, however, to be able to use AI on OneDrive you will need a license Copilot per Microsoft 365.

Launched last November, Copilot for Microsoft 365 uses AI to help users analyze and work on files in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Microsoft Teams and other apps in the suite. Subscribing to the service costs money $30 a month.

Microsoft, in the past months, has already profoundly renewed OneDrive. To date, in fact, the service has been equipped with a new interface and some advanced options to better manage files. Despite this, the platform has often also been the protagonist of unpleasant events, resulting in an environment that is sometimes abused in this regard campagne malware and operations related to cybercrime.

Certainly, the introduction of support for Copilot can help make OneDrive one of the most important services in the entire cloud sector.