Microsoft 365 Copilot just crossed an important line. With Copilot Cowork, now generally available worldwide as of June 16, 2026, Copilot stops being something you chat with and becomes something you delegate to. You describe an outcome, and Cowork builds a plan, works across your emails, files, meetings and chats,
By László Földesi, CEO, Gloster Cloud On June 16, 2026, Microsoft flipped a switch that quietly changes the economics of AI at work. Copilot Cowork — the agentic version of Copilot that doesn't just draft, but does — is now generally available worldwide. After three months in the invite-only
The short version Microsoft is framing its new agent lineup along one axis: execution vs. autonomy. Cowork executes the tasks you give it. Scout, the first "Autopilot," works in the background without prompts. That framing is accurate. I just don't think it's the framing
For decades, business work has been packaged into files. A strategy became a PowerPoint deck. A proposal became a Word document. A security status update became a PDF. A board report became a static attachment. That made sense in a world where humans manually assembled the artifact. But AI changes