On 2026-09-25 Microsoft announced a reimagined Copilot organized around three parts, in a post by Jared Spataro, its chief marketing officer for AI at Work. Home is the new starting point where Chat and Cowork, Microsoft’s agent for multi-step tasks, come together, with “the full power of Word, Excel and PowerPoint” built into the experience. Code lets non-developers describe an app, dashboard or workflow in natural language and have it built, and is powered by the same technology as GitHub Copilot. Autopilot, previously called Scout, is described as a persistent, proactive agent: “Give it a name, a role and a goal, and it goes to work” across Teams, Outlook and documents.
Rollout is staged. Home and Code begin rolling out to Microsoft’s Frontier early-access program in the coming weeks, Autopilot expands to private preview at the end of September, and a preview of Code for Microsoft 365 Premium and Pro subscribers is promised later in 2026.
The bigger structural change is pricing. Microsoft split Copilot into a fixed User Subscription License for everyday AI (chat and Copilot in Office, Outlook and Teams) and usage-based billing for agentic work, covering Cowork, Code, Autopilot and frontier models, which the post names as Astra and Fable. Automatic routing picks the model for each job, and Microsoft is extending its FinOps cost-management tooling across Agent 365, Code and Copilot Studio.
Why it matters: the largest seller of per-seat AI subscriptions to enterprises has conceded that agent workloads do not fit a flat per-user price, and has moved them onto metered billing that passes through the cost of frontier models from OpenAI and Anthropic. What it does not show: the post gives no per-unit prices, no adoption numbers and no general-availability dates, and most of the product is still in early-access or private preview.