Microsoft's Copilot app adds Office, natural coding and automation
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Microsoft’s new Copilot app introduces a tabbed interface with Home, Code, and Autopilot tabs. The Home tab routes simple questions to Chat mode and complex queries to Copilot mode, while the Code tab lets users build apps, dashboards, and automations without programming skills. The Autopilot tab enables an always-on agent that can perform agentic actions.
Written from all 3 reports below, not from any single one.
How it was reported
- Engadget·Microsoft's Copilot app adds Office, natural coding and automation
Microsoft’s Copilot app now includes a tabbed interface with Home, Code, and Autopilot tabs, integrating Office apps and enabling natural-language coding tasks. The Home tab routes simple questions to Chat mode and complex queries to Copilot mode, while the Code tab lets users build apps, dashboards, and automations without programming skills. The Autopilot tab enables agentic actions, such as managing supplier review processes and handling recurring tasks automatically.
- The Verge·Microsoft thinks its new Copilot ‘super app’ will be as influential as Office
- The Next Web·Microsoft’s new Copilot app adds coding and an always-on Autopilot agent
Microsoft’s new Copilot app unifies chat, document editing, coding, and an always-on Autopilot agent in a single interface. The Home section integrates Chat, Cowork, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, while Code lets users build apps and automations from plain-language descriptions using GitHub Copilot technology. Autopilot, an autonomous cloud agent with its own identity and memory, runs continuously and can be invoked in Teams or Outlook.
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