Overview
- Microsoft unveiled the redesigned Copilot app on Sept. 25, 2026, organizing it into three tabs — Home, Code and Autopilot — to combine chat, office work, coding and long‑running agents in one place.
- Autopilot is a tenant‑hosted, always‑on agent that gets its own identity, memory and email address and will enter private preview by the end of September.
- Code lets users build apps, dashboards and automations from plain English using the same core tech as GitHub Copilot, runs in a sandbox inside a customer tenant and will roll out to Frontier early‑access customers in the coming weeks.
- Microsoft split Copilot’s commercial model so a per‑user license covers chat and Office features while Cowork, Code and Autopilot are metered by usage, with admin spending limits and FinOps tools to control costs.
- The update signals a clear enterprise pivot as Microsoft leans on governance, model choice and tenant control to compete with OpenAI, Anthropic and others while broader availability and more details are planned for Ignite in November.