Anthropic’s Claude AI is diving deeper into the Microsoft 365 ecosystem, offering enhanced productivity features for users of Teams, Outlook, SharePoint, and OneDrive. This integration allows Claude to seamlessly access and analyze documents, emails, and chat logs, extracting relevant insights without the need for manual data uploads.
The Microsoft 365 connector, available for Claude Team and Enterprise subscribers with administrator approval, empowers Claude to become a more effective workplace assistant. Anthropic is also rolling out enterprise-level search capabilities within Claude, enabling it to sift through diverse business data sources with greater precision.
Microsoft has been increasingly leveraging Anthropic’s AI models to enrich its Microsoft 365 applications. Anthropic’s technology now underpins features like Copilot Researcher, GitHub Copilot, Copilot Studio, and the new Office Agent, which generates Word and PowerPoint documents directly from Microsoft’s Copilot chat interface.
This integration is built upon Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open-source standard designed to facilitate seamless connectivity between AI applications and various data sources. Microsoft is also adopting MCP extensively, aiming to incorporate it into Windows as part of its effort to transform PCs into AI-driven devices that users can interact with conversationally.