Q: What does the student offer include? A: The offer gives more than 200,000 tertiary students in Singapore one year of Microsoft 365 premium at no cost, and this free Microsoft 365 for Singapore students includes Copilot in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook as well as OneDrive. It also provides time-saving features like automatic slide creation from documents, data trend insights, and project-planning tools. Q: Who is eligible and how do I sign up? A: Eligible students are tertiary education learners in Singapore with a valid tertiary student e‑mail address (for example from a university, polytechnic, ITE or private institution). You can sign up on Microsoft’s student sign-up page from April 1 by entering your student e‑mail, verifying it via the link sent to your inbox, and signing in or creating a Microsoft account to activate the offer. Q: How long is the free access and what does the plan normally cost? A: Qualified tertiary students receive one year of free access to the Microsoft 365 premium plan. The plan typically costs $28.99 per month. Q: What is Copilot and where will I find it in the apps? A: Copilot is Microsoft’s AI assistant built into premium apps to help draft, summarise, analyse and create content. You will find Copilot inside Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook for tasks like drafting text, summarising notes, analysing spreadsheet trends and turning documents into slides. Q: How can students use Copilot for assignments and group projects? A: Students can ask Copilot to draft sections from a thesis statement, summarise meeting notes into clear action items, turn reports into slide decks with speaker notes, and draft project timelines with milestones and owners. In Excel, Copilot can summarise trends, highlight outliers and suggest appropriate charts to visualise data. Q: Are there academic integrity or privacy rules I should follow when using Copilot? A: Follow your school’s rules on AI use, cite sources where required, and use Copilot to assist rather than replace your own work. Do not paste personal or confidential information into prompts and review outputs for accuracy and bias before submitting them. Q: How does this student offer relate to the SkillsFuture AI access announced in Budget 2026? A: The Microsoft initiative targets tertiary students using their school e‑mail to claim access now, while SkillsFuture Singapore plans a separate scheme that will give adult learners six months of premium AI tools from the second half of 2026. SSG said details are still being worked out, so how the two benefits interact has not been finalised. Q: Why is Microsoft investing US$5.5 billion in Singapore and how will that help students using Copilot? A: Microsoft’s US$5.5 billion investment through 2029 is for data-centre operations and AI infrastructure in Singapore, which could include upgraded cooling and new AI chips. Those upgrades, together with Singapore’s high AI adoption, point to improved performance, reliability and lower latency for cloud AI tools students access through free Microsoft 365 for Singapore students.