Microsoft announced a redesigned workplace Copilot experience on September 25, 2026, organized around Home, Code and Autopilot. The three capabilities serve different roles: bringing work together, building work tools from natural-language requests, and continuing delegated tasks. Microsoft outlined staged rollouts rather than immediate access for everyone.
Three roles for workplace Copilot
Microsoft describes Home as a work starting point, Code as a tool for building solutions, and Autopilot as an agent for ongoing work. The company’s announced rollout stages differ by feature.
| Capability | Role | What Microsoft says it does | Announced rollout stage |
| Home | Work hub | Brings Chat and Cowork together with Office in Copilot | Frontier rollout in the coming weeks |
| Code | Solution builder | Creates apps, trackers, dashboards, automations and workflows from natural-language descriptions | Frontier rollout at the end of September, with broader availability in the following weeks |
| Autopilot | Persistent agent | Monitors channels, follows up on threads, handles recurring work and resumes projects | Expansion to private preview at the end of September |
Home brings work activity and Office together
Home is meant to help users pick up recent work, see suggestions and resume tasks. It brings Chat and Cowork together, alongside Office in Copilot, which Microsoft says can create or update editable Word documents, Excel workbooks and PowerPoint presentations from the Copilot experience.
Code builds work apps from natural-language requests
With Code, users can describe a tool or workflow in everyday language rather than start by writing code. Microsoft says the capability can create apps, trackers, dashboards, automations and workflows, including desktop widgets, interactive dashboards and cloud-hosted internal apps. It uses the same underlying technology as GitHub Copilot, Microsoft says, while developers continue to use GitHub Copilot for day-to-day development.
Microsoft describes Code as running in a sandbox—a separated environment for running code—and says organizations can host it within their Microsoft 365 tenant.
Autopilot is designed to continue delegated work
Previously called Scout, Autopilot is designed to keep working on assigned tasks over time, including monitoring channels, following up on threads, handling recurring work and resuming projects after days without a new prompt. Microsoft says it has its own identity, memory, computer and workspace within an organization’s tenant, and can be invoked in Teams, Outlook, chats, channels and documents.
Microsoft’s rollout plans and billing model
Microsoft said Home and Code would begin rolling out through its Frontier program in the coming weeks. It placed Code’s Frontier rollout at the end of September, followed by broader availability in the ensuing weeks, and said Autopilot would expand to private preview at the end of September.
Microsoft says everyday Copilot use is covered by a user subscription license. Cowork, Code, Autopilot and other advanced agentic capabilities use usage-based billing.
