- Copilot and Microsoft Teams benefit from new features
- Copilot will now offer follow-up questions during meetings
- Additional questions may relate to meeting topics, clarifications, or other areas.
Finishing your Microsoft Teams meetings on time could soon be a thing of the past thanks to a new Copilot feature.
Microsoft’s AI tool will now be able to suggest follow-ups to “continue the conversation” when you respond to a prompt, whether you like it or not, the company revealed.
This could mean that your video conference calls drag on a little longer than expected – or that you and your colleagues may stumble upon previously unknown information.
Microsoft Teams and Copilot
News of the update was revealed in a post on the Microsoft 365 roadmap, where it was simply titled “Copilot in Meetings will suggest follow-up questions to ask it.”
The post states that the feature will consist of Copilot in Teams meetings suggesting follow-ups when responding to a user prompt.
Microsoft says these follow-up questions will “generally” be based on the answer Copilot has given in the past, meaning they could focus on a particular topic, ask for more details, or clarify what a particular person has. said during the meeting.
The feature is still listed as being in development at the moment, but Microsoft has listed an expected rollout start date of March 2025, meaning users won’t have too long to wait.
Once released, the feature will be available to Windows and Mac desktop users worldwide.
This news is the latest in a series of additions and improvements to Microsoft Teams in recent months, as the service appears to remain useful for users around the world.
Most recently, Microsoft Teams revealed that it would introduce transcription for multilingual meetings, supporting more languages than ever, even when it comes to meeting recaps.
The news will also see an improved version of document summaries, generated and provided by Copilot, to help users stay on track in their discussions.
