Microsoft unifies Copilot into a single work-focused app with built‑in Office

A consolidated Copilot and new Autopilot agent push Microsoft’s AI efforts deeper into everyday work tools.

Microsoft is overhauling Copilot into a single, enterprise-first app that Nadella is pitching as an “OS for work,” unifying its consumer and commercial experiences with tabs for chat, coding, and a new Autopilot agent. The company has folded full Office-style editing directly into Copilot, including a ribbon UI that mirrors the web versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint, so users can create and modify documents without switching apps. Internally, Microsoft has shelved the desktop-focused Microsoft Scout agent into maintenance mode and rebranded the cloud agent experience as Autopilot, in part due to legal concerns over the Scout name. Nadella and Copilot lead Jacob Andreou both stressed that Copilot’s agent capabilities must give enterprises strong control and avoid data leakage, addressing IT fears that highly autonomous agents are hard to deploy safely. While Microsoft focuses Copilot and Autopilot on work use cases, Andreou is still targeting roughly 90 million self-paying Microsoft 365 consumers who want access to powerful Office-style tools at home.