Microsoft has reorganized its Copilot app around three tabs: Home, Code, and Autopilot. The redesign turns the assistant into a single productivity platform built to compete with Anthropic and OpenAI.

The update merges the old consumer and enterprise versions into one product aimed squarely at business customers. Fewer than 7% of Microsoft’s more than 450 million commercial Office 365 seats currently carry Copilot licenses. Satya Nadella first promised the overhaul at the company’s Build developer conference in June.

Home Tab Brings Chat, Task Handling, and Office Tools Together

Home is the default landing page. It combines Copilot’s regular conversational Chat mode with Cowork, a feature that takes multi-step tasks and finishes them end to end.

Microsoft is also embedding full versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint inside the app. Users can create documents and edit them with others without leaving the interface.

A proactive dashboard called Today will surface missed emails, meeting conflicts, and pending tasks. It enters private preview in October.

Code Lets Non-Developers Build Apps in Plain Language

Code is the least expected addition. It runs on the same technology as GitHub Copilot. Non-developers can describe an app, dashboard, or automation in everyday language, and Copilot builds it.

“Learning to build them is becoming as basic a skill as writing a memo or modeling a budget,” said Jared Spataro, Microsoft’s chief marketing officer of AI at work.

The feature runs inside a new Copilot Managed Runtime. This enterprise hosting platform keeps the applications inside a company’s Microsoft 365 tenant so IT remains in control.

Autopilot Works as a Persistent Background Agent

Autopilot, previously called Scout, is a lasting AI agent. Users give it a name, a role, and a goal. It then operates in the background across Teams, Outlook, and other apps.

It monitors channels, follows up on threads, and handles recurring work even while the user is offline.

“I think it’s been very hard for many organizations to bring agents into the enterprise because of security, compliance and governance concerns,” Annie Pearl, corporate vice president of Copilot product, told Reuters.

Pricing Moves Advanced Features to Usage-Based Billing

Microsoft is splitting Copilot into two billing tiers. Everyday features—chat and Office integration—stay covered by the existing per-user subscriptions at $30 per month.

Cowork, Code, and Autopilot shift to usage-based billing. Access to the newest AI models will too. Microsoft has not disclosed the specific rates.

Competition and Availability Timeline

The launch comes as OpenAI and Anthropic push into enterprise territory with their own consolidated apps.

Jacob Andreou, executive vice president for Copilot, told CNBC that adding the coding capability means Microsoft is “playing catch-up.” He contrasted Microsoft’s cloud-hosted approach with Anthropic’s Claude Cowork, which runs locally on users’ machines. That local model, he said, is “a complete nonstarter” for security-conscious enterprises.

Home and Code begin rolling out to Microsoft’s Frontier early-access program in the coming weeks. Code reaches Microsoft 365 Premium and Pro subscribers later this year. Autopilot enters private preview at the end of September.

Microsoft plans to share more details at its Ignite conference, scheduled for November 17–20 in San Francisco.