2024 has been the year of AI in M365

Microsoft has not just been pushing a lot of things for Copilot lately. I’d say they’ve pushed a lot to SharePoint Premium as well. This is a fantastic idea. Most people ignored SP Premium because the marketing was TERRIBLE. They couldn’t even stick with a name for the suite of products for long. Now that Gen AI has taken the world by storm, customers are hyped about what AI could do for them, especially in terms of efficiency and productivity. SharePoint Premium actually excels in this space, because it’s basically a set of canned solutions (like automatic metadata extraction) you just enable and start using. You don’t have to configure any elaborate process or hire AI engineers to set up Azure resources. You just start using it to simplify your processes. I love it, and I’ll continue to spread the word. I like Copilot, but I LOVE SharePoint Premium for customers.

In other news, have you noticed that Microsoft Lists has been a testing ground for SharePoint features? There’s been a lot of things lately that started out in Lists, only to make their way into (normal) SharePoint later on. The change to the Views selector has been a major one, and plenty of people have complained at how strange the behavior of it is. Luckily this hasn’t completely broken other things, and custom JSON formatting is still thriving. They need to improve their QA process a bit, but that’s been the case for a long time, hasn’t it? 🤣

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