On Friday 25 September Microsoft rebuilt Copilot into one app with three tabs: Home, Code and Autopilot. Home puts Word, Excel and PowerPoint inside the assistant and adds a Today panel across mail, calendar, Teams and tasks. Code lets anyone build an app or workflow by describing it, hosted in the company's own tenant. Autopilot is a standing agent with, in Microsoft's words, its own identity, memory, computer and workspace, that colleagues can @mention like a coworker. Nothing is broadly available yet: Home and Code reach the Frontier early-access program in the coming weeks; Autopilot enters private preview at month end.

The same day Microsoft split the bill. Everyday AI stays on the per-user seat, with OpenAI and Anthropic models included. Cowork, Code, Autopilot and the frontier models run on a usage meter, which for enterprise custom ...