Microsoft Copilot revamp: Code builder, always-on Autopilot agent, and Office embedded
Microsoft unveiled a major Copilot overhaul: 'Code' lets users build apps and dashboards with natural language (powered by GitHub Copilot tech), 'Autopilot' is a revamped always-on digital coworker with its own corporate-directory identity and user-controlled permissions, Word/Excel/PowerPoint are embedded directly in Copilot, and new cost-management controls give employees visibility into AI spend.
Why it matters
First always-on enterprise agent with its own identity in the company directory - Microsoft is attacking the security/compliance/governance barrier that keeps agents out of enterprises, and pairing it with visible per-employee AI cost tracking.
What you could build with it
Copy the identity model for internal agents: give each deployed agent its own directory identity and permission scope so enterprise IT can audit, govern, and cost-track it like an employee.
Does it hold up?
Too early to judge - announced today; Code ships to early-access customers at end of month and Autopilot is in private preview.
Learn more
First spotted on article: source.
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