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Two platforms.
Same questions.
Microsoft 365 Copilot
WORKFLOW & AUTOMATION
PROMPT
Microsoft does not claim ownership of customer prompts or inputs. Customer data remains customer property under Microsoft's data governance framework.
OUTPUT
Microsoft doesn't claim ownership of the output of the service. Outputs are treated as customer data.
TRAINING
Microsoft does not use M365 Copilot customer content to train foundation models. The Microsoft Privacy Statement (March 2026) states for enterprise Copilot: 'Microsoft 365 Copilot...provides enterprise-grade data protection' and 'will use the content in your files only when you ask it to perform a specific action on that specific content.' General Microsoft AI statement covers manual review of automated method outputs for improving accuracy, but enterprise Copilot data is explicitly protected.
COMMERCIAL
Microsoft 365 Copilot is available as an enterprise add-on. Commercial use of all outputs is permitted.
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Microsoft Designer
IMAGE / VIDEO / AUDIO GENERATION
PROMPT
Microsoft does not claim ownership of user inputs to AI services.
OUTPUT
Output IP left to user determination. Same Microsoft Services Agreement applies.
TRAINING
Consumer product. Inputs may be stored and processed by Microsoft for safety monitoring.
COMMERCIAL
Personal and non-commercial use designated in Microsoft Services Agreement for consumer AI services.
473 verified findings across the displayed surfaces.
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AIRIN SUMMARY
Microsoft 365 Copilot carries highly permissive license terms; Microsoft Designer carries highly permissive license terms.FOR ENTERPRISE: MICROSOFT 365 COPILOT NOT RECOMMENDED · MICROSOFT DESIGNER NOT RECOMMENDED
↳ Compliance surfaces · side by side
⚡ INTERACTIVE RISK COMPARISON HEATMAP
| RISK SURFACE | MICROSOFT 365 COPILOT | MICROSOFT DESIGNER |
|---|---|---|
| PPrompt Ownership | ||
| OOutput Ownership | ||
| TModel Training | ||
| CCommercial Use | ||
| DData Privacy | ||
| $Tier Differences |
* Click any cell in the heatmap matrix to scroll directly to its verbatim policy citations below.
📂 Intellectual Property & Model Training
P
SURFACE 01
Prompt Ownership
Microsoft 365 Copilot
MEDHIGH
Microsoft does not claim ownership of customer prompts or inputs. Customer data remains customer property under Microsoft's data governance framework.
“ a. When you share Your Content with other people, you understand that they may be able to, on a worldwide basis, use, save, record, reproduce, broadcast, transmit, share and display Your Content for the purpose that you made Your Content available on the Services without compens…”
Microsoft Designer
MED⚠ CAUTIONHIGH
Microsoft does not claim ownership of user inputs to AI services.
“To the extent necessary to provide the Services to you and others, to protect you and the Services, and to improve Microsoft products and services, you grant to Microsoft a worldwide and royalty-free intellectual property license to use Your Content, for example, to make copies o…”
The license grant explicitly includes 'improve Microsoft products and services,' which can encompass model training or fine-tuning on user content/inputs/outputs. The license is worldwide, royalty-free, and broadly scoped.
O
SURFACE 02
Output Ownership
Microsoft 365 Copilot
HIGH
Microsoft doesn't claim ownership of the output of the service. Outputs are treated as customer data.
No citation available
Microsoft Designer
HIGH
Output IP left to user determination. Same Microsoft Services Agreement applies.
No citation available
T
SURFACE 03
Model Training
Microsoft 365 Copilot
MED⚠ CAUTIONHIGH
Microsoft does not use M365 Copilot customer content to train foundation models. The Microsoft Privacy Statement (March 2026) states for enterprise Copilot: 'Microsoft 365 Copilot...provides enterprise-grade data protection' and 'will use the content in your files only when you ask it to perform a specific action on that specific content.' General Microsoft AI statement covers manual review of automated method outputs for improving accuracy, but enterprise Copilot data is explicitly protected.
“ Microsoft will only use your Microsoft Copilot conversations to monitor performance, troubleshoot problems, diagnose bugs, prevent abuse, and to provide and improve Microsoft Copilot. In certain markets, we use conversation data to train the generative AI models in Copilot, unle…”
Microsoft Designer
MED⚠ CAUTIONHIGH
Consumer product. Inputs may be stored and processed by Microsoft for safety monitoring.
“ Microsoft will only use your Microsoft Copilot conversations to monitor performance, troubleshoot problems, diagnose bugs, prevent abuse, and to provide and improve Microsoft Copilot. In certain markets, we use conversation data to train the generative AI models in Copilot, unle…”
C
SURFACE 04
Commercial Use
Microsoft 365 Copilot
MED⚠ CAUTIONHIGH
Microsoft 365 Copilot is available as an enterprise add-on. Commercial use of all outputs is permitted.
“ b. The software is licensed, not sold, and Microsoft reserves all rights to the software not expressly granted by Microsoft, whether by implication, estoppel, or otherwise. This license does not give you any right to, and you may not: ”
Microsoft Designer
MED⚠ CAUTIONHIGH
Personal and non-commercial use designated in Microsoft Services Agreement for consumer AI services.
“ ii. Bing Maps. You may not use Bird’s eye imagery of the United States, Canada, Mexico, New Zealand, Australia or Japan for governmental use without our separate written approval.”
📂 Data Privacy & Governance
D
SURFACE 05
Data Privacy
Microsoft 365 Copilot
MED⚠ CAUTIONHIGH
Enterprise/commercial M365 Copilot provides strong data protection — content not used for training, enterprise-grade compliance. Consumer Microsoft products (Bing, Cortana, etc.) have broader licenses. Bing Places grants a 'worldwide, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, save, modify, aggregate, promote, transmit, display, and distribute your Data and Your Content...and sub-license any or all of the foregoing rights to third parties.'
“Microsoft does not use what you say in email, human-to-human chat, video calls, or voice mail, or your documents, photos, or other personal files to target ads to you. We use data we collect through our interactions with you, through some of our first-party products, services, ap…”
While communications content is excluded, behavioral interaction data from first- and third-party properties is used for ad targeting, including via automated processes.
Microsoft Designer
MED⚠ CAUTIONHIGH
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“ Bing experience improvement program for Bing Desktop and Bing Toolbar . If you are using Bing Desktop or Bing Toolbar and choose to participate in the Bing Experience Improvement Program, we also collect additional data about how you use these specific Bing apps, such as the add…”
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SURFACE 06
Tier Differences
Microsoft 365 Copilot
HIGH
Enterprise/commercial M365 Copilot provides strong data protection — content not used for training, enterprise-grade compliance. Consumer Microsoft products (Bing, Cortana, etc.) have broader licenses. Bing Places grants a 'worldwide, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, save, modify, aggregate, promote, transmit, display, and distribute your Data and Your Content...and sub-license any or all of the foregoing rights to third parties.'
No citation available
Microsoft Designer
HIGH
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No citation available