Microsoft's share price rose about 4% on the news. 'We believe this next generation of AI will unlock a new wave of productivity growth,' Satya Nadella, Microsoft's chief executive, said in an online presentation. The Redmond, Washington-based company, outpacing peers through investments in ChatGPT's creator OpenAI, also showcased a new 'business chat' experience that can pull data and perform tasks across applications on a user's written command. First open to some 20 enterprises for testing, AI will offer a draft in these applications, speeding up content creation and freeing up workers' time, Microsoft said. The technology company previewed a new AI 'Copilot' for Microsoft 365, its product suite that includes Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations and Outlook emails.

March 16 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) on Thursday trumpeted its latest plans to put artificial intelligence into the hands of more users, answering a spate of unveilings this week by its rival Google (GOOGL.O) with upgrades to its own widely used office software.

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