Microsoft announces new Copilot with Home, Code, and Autopilot tabs

Microsoft announced a complete redesign of Copilot, bringing chat, app creation, and AI agents together in one interface. The Home tab combines Copilot Chat with Cowork, integrates Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, and will include the Today dashboard, while Code lets users create apps, dashboards, and automations by describing them in natural language. Autopilot, formerly Scout, is a persistent cloud-based agent: Microsoft says it can monitor channels, chase responses, and resume projects without new commands, with its own identity, memory, and workspace in the company’s environment.

Microsoft will use user-based billing for chat and Microsoft 365 apps, and usage-based billing for Cowork, Code, Autopilot, and models such as Astra and Fable, The Verge reports. Home and Code will begin rolling out to the Frontier program in the coming weeks, while Autopilot will enter private preview later this month. According to Xataka, citing CNBC, fewer than 7% of more than 450 million commercial Office 365 licenses include the AI add-on.