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Everything\u2019s coming up Copilot \u2014 including Bing.<\/p>\n
Today at Microsoft Ignite 2023<\/a>, the company renamed Bing Chat<\/a>, the AI-powered chatbot it launched on Bing earlier this year, to Copilot in Bing. Meanwhile, the premium, corporate-focused version of Bing Chat, which was previously called Bing Chat Enterprise<\/a>, has also been rebranded to Copilot.<\/p>\n Why the name changes? Not to cause confusion, Microsoft swears \u2014 despite the fact that the company now has roughly a dozen products that share the Copilot<\/a> brand.<\/p>\n \u201cRenaming \u2018Bing Chat Enterprise\u2019 to \u2018Copilot\u2019 reflects our vision to create a unified Copilot experience for consumer and commercial customers,\u201d Caitlin Roulston, director of communications at Microsoft, told TechCrunch via email.<\/p>\n That makes sense. But it could be, also, that Bing Chat didn\u2019t move the needle much for Bing \u2014 and so Microsoft\u2019s looking to divorce the tech from the search engine that launched it. An August report<\/a> from StatCounter found that Bing failed to take any market share from Google six months after Bing Chat launched; Microsoft has disputed the findings.<\/p>\n Image Credits:<\/strong> Microsoft<\/p>\n<\/div>\n It\u2019s not just the name that\u2019s new. Starting December 1, users who sign into Bing with a corporate account \u2014 a Microsoft Entra ID, to be precise \u2014 will receive the benefit of \u201ccommercial data protection\u201d while using Copilot in Bing. That means their data won\u2019t be saved nor used to train AI models, Roulston says, and Microsoft won\u2019t have access to it.<\/p>\n \u201cCopilot will update the commercial terms and conditions on December 1 to reflect that it\u2019s a generally available product from Microsoft,\u201d she added. \u201cAs part of this, it will inherit Microsoft\u2019s universal license terms for online services \u2026 Over time, Microsoft will expand eligibility of Copilot with commercial data protection to even more Entra ID users at no additional cost.\u201d<\/p>\n Copilot is now accessible in Windows in addition to Copilot.Microsoft.com and Bing, shipping in range of Microsoft\u2019s enterprise subscription plans \u2014 Microsoft 365 E, E5, Business Premium and Business Standard \u2014 at no additional cost. Copilot will be included in Microsoft 365 F3 starting December 1. For all other customers, it\u2019ll be available \u00e0 la carte for $5 per month.<\/p>\n For more Microsoft Ignite 2023 coverage:<\/p>\n