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Microsoft Copilot
Copilot Cowork
Hands longer multi-step jobs to Copilot, such as creating documents, sending email, scheduling meetings and managing files. It plans the work, shows progress and asks before sensitive actions.
Which capability it is
- An agent that works through a job on its own (Multi-step autonomous runner)
The same thing at other vendors
ChatGPT
ChatGPT Work (rolling out; every plan in the desktop app) · dots (beta)
Claude
Cowork, inside chat · computer use (research preview) · Dispatch · Claude Duet (research preview)Claude Cowork
Mistral Vibe
Vibe Work
Details
- Status
- GA for work and school accounts (June 16, 2026); preview for personal accounts
- Where you find it
- m365.cloud.microsoft in the browser; the Microsoft Copilot desktop app
- Part of
- Microsoft Copilot
- Plans
- Microsoft 365 Copilot User Subscription License (work or school); eligible personal Microsoft 365 subscriptions (Preview)
- Admin must turn it on?
- not stated on the GA pages read. During Frontier, admins controlled availability under Agent management.
Learn
Where we teach it
We name agents in Name the parts and say plainly where their edges are. We don't teach building them, and we say why. The longer class teaches the alternatives: Encode a method so someone else runs it and Set it to run without you.