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So when I heard I was working on Tasks, I was super excited because we were talking about all the mundane things that we do in our day to day lives, and how awesome it would be if put the burden back on AI to do the job and get it done for us on our behalf. For me, the North Star, for the product that we're developing is what would a great personal assistant actually do for you? I've been, frankly, using it a lot for my personal life, which has been really fun. I sent some flowers to my mom, and I'm also planning a wedding at the moment with a million things to do. And Tasks is perfect. Having Tasks go through vendors recommending what a great menu should look like. Keeping track of all the dietary restrictions of our guests has been really wonderful. So Microsoft takes safety and security very seriously and in Tasks that's no different. We take it very seriously as well. You'll see this pop up in various ways, but one of them is transactions. We spend a lot of time making sure that the transaction is approved by users. The amount is clear. What you're buying is clear. The second is when you're filling out a form that's your personal information. The third one is destructive action. So if you want to go through and clean up your email, that's awesome. But if you have 50 emails that you want to delete. Copilot will ask you first. The last one is making sure that when you're responding to other people, that is, you know your brand and how you interact with people and so before there's any interaction with others, it will ask you, hey, is this output okay? Or is this review that I'm submitting okay, to make sure that you're aligned with whatever it has produced? One of the simplest way I could put this is it's going from chatting with AI to doing things with AI, rather than just writing through like conversations and instructions. It just does it for you and it kind of feels magical.