Microsoft Copilot (Free Version) – Complete Tutorial

About this video

Nick presents a complete tutorial on the free version of Microsoft Copilot at copilot.microsoft.com. He shows basic AI chat with follow-up context — e.g. asking for the longest river in North America, then ‘What about South America?’ — and how the New Chat button resets context while saved conversations appear in the left sidebar. Signing in with a free Microsoft account preserves chat history across devices; without sign-in it is not saved forever. He stresses Copilot pulls information from the internet and may not always be accurate, pointing to citations you can hover over or click to verify sources. He demonstrates voice talk via the microphone, drafting and revising text (a late-payment email made more friendly, noting the client had not missed a payment in over 10 years), generating and revising images (a suburban house with solar panels, then at night with an electric car, then adding a dragged-in photo of himself), downloading images or finding them in the library, and uploading pictures, documents or spreadsheets via drag-and-drop or the plus button — e.g. asking for the top five inventory items by profit margin. Finally he introduces prompt engineering with five components: role, goal, context, expectations, and sources, rebuilding his Arizona real estate development query as ‘you are an urban developer with 20 years of experience’ with detailed scope and a bulleted overview format to get much more detailed results.

Key takeaways

• Free Copilot at copilot.microsoft.com offers chat, voice talk, text drafting, image generation, and document/spreadsheet analysis without a paid subscription
• Copilot remembers context within a conversation; New Chat resets it, and signing in saves history across devices
• Check citations for important research because Copilot’s internet-sourced answers may not always be accurate
• Upload files by dragging them into the chat field or using the plus button to have Copilot analyze their contents
• Better prompts use role, goal, context, expectations, and sources — use only the components helpful for the task

Episode details: published March 10, 2026 · 10:49 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Kevin Stratvert’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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