Maybe Copilot doesn't suck?

After my director advocated for me, my client's CIO approved my upgrade to the premium version of Copilot. Based on my early use, it seems superior to the basic version.

First, I can use the "Edit" mode in Excel with fewer limits. This was the first limitation I ran into with the basic version. I was using that mode all day today, and it kept up with every request and had no denials. 

Second, Copilot seems to be more integrated into Office now. Whereas before you had to go to Teams or the Copilot app to say, " Draft an email, now you have access to do that easily right in Outlook. Still no support directly in SQL Management Studio, but maybe that will show up down the road. 

Third, the results seem to be more useful and straight to the point. Whereas the basic Copilot would hedge and give me different options, the advanced version seems to go straight to the best answer and cut the fluff.

This experience comes mainly from using Copilot to help with SQL queries and Excel formulas/Visual Basic. I cannot speak to any other use cases. At least there's hope that Copilot can be more useful.