Microsoft plans to expand the reach of its OneDrive generative AI assistant to people using OneDrive on the web. This week, the company revealed on its Microsoft 365 Roadmap website that Copilot plans to roll out to OneDrive network users sometime in May.
A listing on the Microsoft 365 roadmap website reads:
Copilot in OneDrive works with OneDrive for Web, letting you ask questions and get information from files in OneDrive without opening the file. It can also summarize one or more files. Copilot in OneDrive supports the following file types: DOC, DOCX, FLUID, LOOP, PPT, PPTX, XLSX, PDF, ODT, ODP, RTF, ASPX, RTF, TXT, HTM, and HTML.
This new feature requires a subscription to Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365. In January 2024, the company revealed that Copilot for Microsoft 365 is now generally available to all enterprises. Adding Copilot to the Microsoft 365 Business plan costs $30 per person per month.
Over the past few months, Microsoft has given more attention to its OneDrive cloud storage service. In October 2023, the company first announced its "OneDrive 3.0" plan, which will launch a new user interface and features, including a new "People" center that can organize cloud files based on the people who share files with users.
Earlier this week, OneDrive began gradually rolling out the new design to individual users, which will continue through February.
Microsoft also launched a new OneDrive app for Teams users in December. It includes many of the same new features the company revealed in October, including a People hub that lets you see any stored files others have shared with you, as well as a Shared View section that shows any AI-recommended files that may be stored on your account.