Microsoft unveiled a redesigned Copilot app that merges its separate consumer and Microsoft 365 Copilot products into one interface with three tabs: Home, Code and Autopilot, the company said Friday. Jared Spataro, chief marketing officer of AI at Work, announced the changes in a Microsoft blog post.
The Home tab combines Copilot Chat with the Cowork and Tasks features and adds Office document creation for Word, Excel and PowerPoint directly in the app, according to Microsoft. The Code tab lets people without programming experience describe an app, dashboard, automation or workflow in plain language and have Copilot build it, powered by the same technology behind GitHub Copilot.
Autopilot is a rebrand of Scout, the persistent agent Microsoft introduced at its Build conference in June. Users assign it a name, a role and a goal, and it works across Teams, Outlook and other Microsoft 365 apps, following up on threads and picking projects back up without a new prompt, Microsoft said.
Home and Code will roll out through Microsoft's Frontier test program in the coming weeks, with Code reaching testers by the end of September, and Autopilot moves to private preview at the end of the month, according to the announcement. A Fabric IQ integration is also planned for public preview over the next month.
Microsoft is betting a single branded surface for chat, low-code building and an always-on agent can do for AI what Office did for productivity software: become the default nobody thinks to replace. Whether users want three different AI paradigms under one tab bar, instead of the point tools they already use, is the open question.