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Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft Copilot is the AI layer inside Outlook, Word, Excel, Teams and SharePoint - the analysis sits where the file already lives; underneath, models from OpenAI and, depending on the setting, from Anthropic do the work. For professional secrets the chain is nevertheless not closed: the confidentiality undertaking under section 203 of the German Criminal Code sits in a separate contract document that the firm must sign in addition to the standard agreement - whether it covers the AI services in the firm's own tenant and their subcontractors is not documented publicly by Microsoft. The free consumer access without enterprise data protection has neither a data processing agreement nor a confidentiality undertaking.
In the catalogue because you need to know this as well.
What it is good for
- Works where the file already is - no second tool, no shadow AI beside it
- Human abuse review is expressly switched off for this service
- Named German confidentiality addendum for professionals bound by secrecy
Where it stops
- For the Azure models the confidentiality amendment is signed through our contractual line; its effect for the Copilot services in the firm's tenant is not covered by it and has to be settled per setup
- Anthropic models, once enabled, leave the EU data boundary - the administrator has to control this actively
- The confidentiality addendum is a separate contractual step per firm, not part of the standard agreement
Status through us
The same model, procured differently, is a different legal position. The status above refers to procurement through us.
Which route carries it, with which instrument and under which condition, we set out in full to the firm before it commissions us - section 203(4) requires that the chain can be checked, not that it is published. The full matrix, with the sources behind every route, can be requested in the German catalogue after confirming your e-mail address, and we go through it in the conversation.
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