Microsoft 365 Copilot (2023)
Microsoft embedded its Copilot assistant across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, letting users draft documents and build spreadsheets by prompting in natural language rather than clicking through menus.
Brought generative AI into the tools billions use daily, setting the template for assistant-driven work.
Showed how pro software vendors fold AI agents into existing surfaces instead of building separate apps.
Adobe's play is the same move for creative software: meeting users inside an existing AI assistant instead of demanding they open Creative Cloud.
