- Coming up we look at native new
AI capabilities in Microsoft 365.
These are enabled by Cortana,
serving as a personal productivity assistant
for people in your organization.
I'll show you three enterprise-ready experiences
including: the new daily briefing email
to help you get ahead of your day,
the play my emails capability in Outlook mobile
to help you triage emails in a voice forward way,
and the revamped Cortana in Windows 10
with the new chat-based UI.
If you haven't looked at Cortana for awhile
or perhaps have turned it off in the past,
it's a good time to take a second look.
Native integration with Office 365 means that Cortana meets
the same privacy, security and compliance commitments,
and it's enabled by default.
You can learn more at aka.ms/CortanaAdminGuide.
The combination of Cortana together
with Microsoft 365 provides the foundation
for natural and intelligent interactions
with the all Microsoft 365 apps and data.
Cortana natively integrates with the Microsoft Graph
to make sense of the millions of signals
in the Office Substrate that run Microsoft 365 services.
This includes all your emails, files, chats, meetings,
to-do lists, the people you work with and more.
It lights up new productivity experiences personalized
to individual users
and supports natural language interaction.
For example, here Cortana has generated
a personal briefing email at the start of my day.
It helps me prepare for my meetings, manage my tasks
and it's private to me.
To help you prepare for meetings,
it uses AI to surface relevant conversations
and files that you can review beforehand.
It goes beyond files attached to the meeting invitation
and saves you the trouble of hunting through your inbox.
By design, Cortana builds the daily briefing email
based on the unique signals of your email and calendar data.
It only surfaces content
that you already have permissions to.
It helps you stay on top of tasks
by highlighting pending commitments and promises made
such as scheduling a meeting,
as well as items to follow up on
that you can check off once completed.
If your calendar is filling up with meetings,
you can easily book focus time directly
from the briefing email with just one click.
During focus time, Microsoft Teams automatically switches
to Do Not Disturb, so you can work distraction-free.
As a user, you can opt out at any time
by selecting unsubscribe.
Equally, as an admin, you can configure access down
to the user level using PowerShell in Exchange Online.
The Play My Emails capability and Outlook mobile,
offers a new level of personal productivity assistance
while you are on the go.
Once you've connected your phone to an audio device
such as your headphones or Bluetooth in your car,
you'll see the play icon light up along with the name
of the device it will play too.
You can also find this icon
above settings in Outlook mobile.
Let's hit play to begin.
- [Cortana] Right now, you've got five emails,
including a change to your day.
This will take a few minutes.
(beep)
Nestor changed the time for travel prep
from 1:30 PM to 5:30 PM.
- Notice how this wasn't just to read out of the text.
Cortana first summarized how many recent unread emails
are in my focused inbox and highlighted changes
to my schedule for the day.
I can use touch or voice commands to act on a message,
with options such as flag for later.
(beep)
- [Cortana] Several hours ago,
Alex Wilber sent a quick email
about marketing v-team meeting prep to three addresses.
Here's what it says.
We need to discuss these numbers
in our upcoming V-team meeting.
Please review these by 1:00 PM
and let me know if they look good.
There was a spreadsheet attached to also.
(beep)
- Flag this.
(beep)
- [Cortana] I'll flag that one.
- Using AI in the Microsoft Graph,
Cortana is able to synthesize information
in the message header and stitch together messages
that are part of a conversation
that arrive in my inbox at different times.
(beep)
- [Cortana] There are two emails in a conversation
about quarterly expenses.
Several hours ago, Alex Wilber send the first email.
Here's the message.
Hi all, let's make sure we're tracking
all our expenses monthly for accurate forecasting.
Can you get your updates in by the end of next week.
(beep)
Then several hours ago, Nestor wrote back
with a quick reply saying, I'll be traveling at that time
so I will submit mine as soon as I return.
Malavika, aren't you in the same boat?
- Hey Cortana, reply.
- [Cortana] All right, what's your short reply?
- I'll send mine once I'm back.
- [Cortana] You want to email Nestor Wilke
plus two others saying 'I'll send mine once I'm back.'
Ready to send it?
- Yes.
- [Cortana] I've sent it.
- As you saw, this wasn't a one-way conversation.
I could say, hey Cortana to interrupt the read out
and reply as well.
Okay let's see another scenario.
One that isn't actually optimized to access on the go.
(beep)
- [Cortana] Several hours ago, Adele Vance sent an email
about H2 Planning to three addresses
with some visual content.
This is a long one.
- Hey Cortana.
(beep)
Skip this.
- [Cortana] That's all I've got.
- Cortana determined that this email was best read
on a screen because it contained
a lot of graphical information.
It paused before reading the email
and I was able to skip it.
You can customize the experience under settings
in Outlook mobile.
For example, you can choose to mark emails
as read or unread.
You can even change Cortana's voice to be masculine.
So these were two examples of AI-driven capabilities
with Cortana, optimized for when you're on the go.
Now let's switch to the experience with Windows 10.
This has a new chat-based UI that gives you the ability
to interact with Cortana using
spoken or typed natural language queries.
For security, you will need to be logged into your device
and signed into the app to interact with Cortana
and access your Office 365 data.
Also, you can no longer use Cortana
with your work and personal accounts at the same time.
To find what you need fast, you can ask Cortana a question
like, when's my next meeting with Nestor?
I can see this meeting is in Nestor's office.
If I don't know where that is, I can simply ask,
where's Nestor's office?
This shows me a people card with all the details.
So that was an overview of the new AI-driven
productivity capabilities lighting up for Cortana
and Microsoft 365 to give you time back
on your busy schedule.
These experiences are available now
in English starting in the US.
This is just the beginning with more to come
including native integration with Teams.
You can learn more at aka.ms/BriefingEmail,
aka.ms/PlayMyEmails
and aka.ms/CortanaInWindows.
We hope that you will try these experiences
for yourself soon.Thanks for watching.
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