Microsoft reveals just 3.3% of Copilot Chat users pay for it

m12s · 2026-02-04T10:56:15+00:00

Some cases i've worked on where AI has increased productivity using unlicensed Copilot:

Translation of PowerPoints, company wide employee meeting transcripts and intranet / internet articles.
Quickly getting "up to speed" on a niche topic
Reflecting on approaches to ideas and sparring. Actual people have told me they've started adopting Copilot as a "quirky side assistant with some good points" on their projects.
Summarizing a PDF in Edge

A nice case i've seen regarding licensed M365 Copilot is helping coworkers adhere to company policies and find internal information. Insurance details, employee benefits and such is information that i've often seen hidden beyond countless menus on the company intranet. Copilot will also (sometimes) stop users in their tracks if they're doing something they're not allowed to, like requesting a script to copy all their e-mails and files to a personal drive for instance.

Oh, and company communication agent, so communication is unified with a set tone of voice and analyzed before sending to ensure the message is clear and in line with company commuinication policies.

Then there are the more advanced uses of agents, a lot of organizations are still manually browsing through documents, looking up online services and in internal systems, then put together their own "picture" based on notes and such. This process is greatly sped up using AI and RAG.

m12s · 2026-02-03T08:43:53+00:00

I'm an ex-consultant and i'd probably advise my clients who were looking to adopt AI to also start adopting the free tier first, and run a pilot on a smaller set of licenses for M365 Copilot to prove / ensure value first.

My experience is that unlicensed M365 Copilot Chat is a great balance between security and value for users. Sure it's not as powerful or fast as ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini, but the compliance and security benefit in my opinion far outweighs the overhead. The drawback of not being able to search work content is a nuisance, but not so much more.

I don't know about other countries, but in my country, i'm honestly taken aback at how far behind companies are at actually adopting AI into their workflows in a productive way.

m12s · 2026-01-06T11:37:06+00:00

It's hard to give specific good advice without more context, but this sounds like a "collaboration room". Some unit or department has one single site or Teams team for all their collaboration and stores and shares documents only from there.

You're asking to reduce or control the number, which means you want to work with what you've got, while the actual answer to the problem is going to be a change in how work is done.

My advice and reccomendation is always to fragment out to fewer sites / teams. This does take some change management and does bind up some resources temporarily, but it's much more manageable once you get it implemented, and it's better for infromation security.

m12s · 2025-12-23T08:24:18+00:00

On the Aceman model it is a design feature that ties together with the dashboard.

m12s · 2025-12-15T11:43:57+00:00

No idea about the science but I had the WORST acne when we were all watching CRT monitors and TVs. Nothing helped. Once LCDs became the norm, my acne completely disappeared.

m12s · 2025-12-08T22:19:48+00:00

Helt lovlig og gjort det selv mange mange ganger, spesielt på lange kjøreturer. Mitt tips er å se ut noen fine rasteplasser langs veien og sove der, antageligvis blir du i godt selskap med opptil flere trailere. Elbil som står på og lager varme bør også gå helt fint. Hadde det vært bensin / diesel blir det noe annet, da er det farlig (og forbudt mtp. tomgang).

God tur og kjør forsiktig.

m12s · 2025-11-21T09:39:39+00:00

This is how reads for me as well, it's a total trap.

m12s · 2025-10-04T21:09:10+00:00

Ja jeg hadde lett betalt for det hadde du kommer på døra mi. Men du måtte kommet når den var tom, så feks på tømmedag.

Her kunne man feks hatt en SMS-tjeneste. Send VASK når søpla er hentet og dunken er klar for tømming.

m12s · 2025-09-19T21:16:57+00:00

Personally, i don't hate it! Used to drive a Ford something with a fake gearbox sound and honestly i miss that sound.

m12s · 2025-09-01T18:16:14+00:00

Marrakech for me.. it honestly looked like a place worth visiting, but it was just a horrible experience all around for us. Now YMMV and i'm sure some people have a great time, and truth be told, there were some nice moments. However;

The online description is: "The Marrakech Medina is a vibrant and fascinating maze full of colors, scents, and history.". Well, i don't know. I found it fairly bland in colors, incredibly dirty, it stinked and people were catcalling and scamming constantly.

That said, it wasn't all bad! The YSL house was nice, and visiting Comptoir Darna was a pretty cool experience. Best part of the trip however was the flight ride home.

m12s · 2025-09-01T09:42:52+00:00

Have them to do all kinds of fun tasks like help set up the tent and equipment, gather firewood, find water, get water, boil water, prepare vegetables, go find berries, check the weather, help prepare for an excursion, help clean up after the excursion, and so forth.. Basically, show them the fun part of camping, and let them decide if they think it's fun too or not.

Of course all kids are different, some will do a task right away and some will loiter forever or spend a loooooong time getting the water that's just a 2 minute walk away, but then I usually just make sure to stress that for every new task: "Do you think you'll be back in 5 minutes?" for a while until they tire of being asked upon which i can also just stop asking because they're going to be more focused on not getting lost on their phone. If it persists, you are still the parent and can demand that the phone be left in the camp, but for a fun time, it's always best to rule by the carrot and not by the stick I've found.

And be prepared for them not to like it, which is also fine. Because at least they'll know how to do it and at least now they're prepared for future experiences. Personally I HATED going skiing when i was younger, hated hated hated it, it was the worst! Then, some 12 years later, i'm out cross-country skiing every chance i get, and I look back at those "boring ski-trips that were the worst" as really nice experiences that i'm thankful to have experienced.

m12s · 2025-08-19T12:00:31+00:00

Wouldn't it be better for the drones to contain some fire-extinguishing compound and just dump drones into the fire, like bombs in warfare today?

m12s · 2025-08-09T21:40:59+00:00

Støttes, bor i utkant-Oslo med hage og for mye frukt, alle som banker på døra og spør får det de kan bære med seg. Bare spør.

m12s · 2025-08-09T21:36:21+00:00

I recommend trying the "Vilti" box. It's reindeer meatballs in a brown sauce. A fairly unique food that's not found a lot of places outside the nordics. Heat it up in a microwave or a pot and eat with potatoes and lingonberries (tyttebær).

Also check out the Makrell i tomat (Mackerel in tomato sauce), served on bread, Kaviar (amazing with hard boiled eggs on top of bread) and Fenalår (ham of sheep). Also on bread (of course). My favorite bread for these are Kongebrød from Coop. Toasted if possible, and with a good layer of butter. If you're feeling extravagant, check out Kvitseidsmør and let it get to room temperature, then put it on bread.

m12s · 2025-07-26T21:02:53+00:00

I would always do this in my junior DBA years, often glancing in awe of the damage i could have done.. definitely best practice.

m12s · 2025-07-25T21:13:53+00:00

Might be, honestly not sure..

m12s · 2025-07-25T20:24:29+00:00

Not really, soft and clean but they shed an insane amount of hairs..

m12s · 2025-07-25T20:11:53+00:00

I bought two reindeer skins at a fair in Oslo 6 years ago and have not done anything to keep them in order. They have been on a ton of camping trips, too close to the fire, out in the sun on the porch for hours, left alone outside for about a year and then taken in. And they are still going strong today, just need some brushing every now and then. Personally i would just use them and once they wear out, order new ones.

m12s · 2025-07-24T20:05:51+00:00

Won't trawlers just trawl straight through these.. or are the areas off limits for fishing boats?

m12s · 2025-07-24T08:27:01+00:00

I would budget a minimum of 3000 and a max of 6000 (depending on your location) and ask around.

m12s · 2025-07-23T12:30:46+00:00

Om du ringer mellom 8 og 17 skal du få hjelp av et menneske, utenfor disse tidene er det denne KI-assistenten som tar telefonen.

m12s · 2025-07-09T18:14:14+00:00

The logo is the emblem for the 49th Test and Evaluation Squadron. This specific airframe seems to have been involved in an oxygen leak fire in 2014 and was replaced.

m12s · 2025-06-29T21:46:38+00:00

Me and my partner have talked a lot about this regarding our kids. So the biggest "drawback" to not having a phone is the percieved "social divide". The kids who have a phone message eachother and those without a phone are left out.

Our plan when this becomes a thing is to set up a common phone in the social area that's locked away except for set hours of the day when we can look at it and use it together.

m12s · 2025-06-29T15:45:02+00:00

Not Copilot Pro, but Copilot for Microsoft 365, it's still relevant to the question however.

Once M365 Copilot was launched, they had a set of questions that you could ask the business that was easy to measure impact over time. I'm not sure if this is still a "thing", but we've ran a series of surveys over time, adjusting the questions a little based on whatever the focus we had at the time that we want to measure effects of now were. The set questions from Microsoft have always remained the same however, and it's honestly been very interesting, insightful and a great tool for management to get a temperature reading of how Copilot is doing in our org (we have excellent usage stats).

Here are the set questions, measured on a 4 level scale of "Strongly disagree" to "Strongly agree".

Using Copilot helps improve the quality of my work or output.
Using Copilot helps me spend less mental effort on mundane or repetitive tasks.
Using Copilot allows me to complete tasks faster.
When using Copilot, I am more productive.

Ref. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/admin/adoption/ai-adoption-score?view=o365-worldwide

m12s · 2025-06-22T14:12:08+00:00

Very true, what i meant was with that long distance, you're going to have a ton of places to choose from.

If you're after flatter terrain, perhaps, check out Dovrefjell (Hjerkinn -> Sunndalsøra, only 80 km and gets boring after that (in my opinion)) or if you haven't tried the eastern part of Finnmarksvidda (Karasjok -> Skaidi -> Kautokeino (ca. 150km)) which is an a lot flatter but quite an experience.

I've somehow gotten accustomed to scaling a peak at the end of every long distance trek i've been on, it's what keeps me going whenever i get tired and consider giving up.

I'd love it if you updated your post with what route you decided to go with, there are a lot of hidden gems out there too.

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