Overview
- Microsoft consolidated Copilot into three pillars — Home for chat and Office editing, Code for natural‑language app and automation building, and Autopilot for persistent cloud agents — as described in its Sept. 25 announcement.
- Home and Code are rolling into Microsoft’s Frontier early‑access program while Copilot Managed Runtime is in preview and Autopilot has expanded into a private preview.
- Microsoft split pricing into two lanes: everyday Copilot stays on per‑user subscriptions while Cowork, Code, Autopilot and long‑running agents use usage‑based Copilot Credits that bill consumption.
- Code-generated apps run in a sandbox and can be hosted inside a customer tenant under Copilot Managed Runtime, and Autopilot agents carry their own identity, memory and workspace which creates persistent access to tenant data.
- Administrators must explicitly enable usage‑based features and configure budgets, approval workflows, model restrictions and audit logging before broad deployment, and Microsoft plans further updates around Ignite in November.