Microsoft turns Copilot into an autonomous workspace with AI agents

Microsoft overhauled Copilot from a sidebar chatbot into a unified workspace app with Chat, Cowork, Code and Autopilot. Agents run autonomously in the cloud, and heavy agentic tools move to usage-based billing instead of a flat per-user fee.

• Copilot splits into Chat for quick lookups and Cowork for full project workflows
• Code lets non-developers build apps using plain natural language prompts
• Autopilot is an autonomous agent with its own cloud computer, memory and identity
• Cowork, Code and Autopilot shift to usage-based billing instead of fixed subscriptions