Every Copilot surface, scored without mercy
Real scores from real use, ranked best to worst. Each scorecard covers what's genuinely good, what sucks, who should use it, and who should skip it. Updated as Microsoft ships.
Researcher
"Real multi-step research with citations across web and tenant — if you can wait the minutes it takes and answer its questions like an adult."
Teams Copilot
"The crown jewel of the suite — as long as your org records meetings and your meetings deserve recording."
Cowork
"The first Copilot that acts instead of answers — visibly the future of the suite, currently fenced behind Frontier preview with rough edges to match."
Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat
"Cross-app synthesis that borders on organizational telepathy — hidden behind naming chaos and a grounding toggle most users never notice."
Copilot Studio
"The fastest-improving product in the stack, wrapped in licensing math nobody can explain and a low-code promise that expires right when things get interesting."
Analyst
"It genuinely writes and runs code against your data and shows its reasoning — but it inherits every data-hygiene problem Excel Copilot has, plus a trust problem nobody audits."
Outlook Copilot
"World-class at digesting threads, serviceable at drafting, and completely absent from the automation your inbox actually needs."
Word Copilot
"Excellent at first drafts and rewrites, mediocre at the long, formatted, template-bound documents Word actually exists for."
Excel Copilot
"Genuinely powerful on clean tables, nearly useless on the workbooks your company actually has."
SharePoint Agents
"The lowest-effort agent in the stack — instantly useful on well-kept sites, instantly embarrassing on the sites you actually have."
PowerPoint Copilot
"Doc-to-deck is genuinely good; almost everything else produces slides you'll be embarrassed to present."