Microsoft Launches Redesigned Copilot App With Chat, Coding, and AI Agent Capabilities
Microsoft’s new app unifies chat, coding, and autonomous agents across Home, Code, and Autopilot tabs. Autopilot, formerly Scout, can monitor Teams and manage follow-ups while users are offline, with its own identity, memory, workspace, and enterprise controls.
Microsoft officially unveiled its redesigned Copilot “super app” on September 25, 2026, bundling three AI capabilities — chat, coding, and autonomous agents — into a single interface it describes as “the AI built for work.”
The new app is organized into three tabs: Home, Code, and Autopilot. The Home tab combines Copilot Chat and Cowork, serving as the default landing experience. It will also include a Today feature acting as a personalized dashboard for emails, meeting requests, Teams threads, and other work activity. The Code tab, described as a surprise addition for an app aimed at knowledge workers, lets users build apps, trackers, dashboards, and automations that can be shared as cloud-hosted internal tools. Microsoft says it is powered by the same underlying technology as GitHub Copilot and runs in a sandboxed, tenant-secure environment.
The third tab, Autopilot, is a rebranded version of Scout — an AI personal assistant Microsoft introduced at its Build conference earlier in 2026. Autopilot runs in the cloud with its own identity, memory, and workspace, allowing it to continue handling tasks such as monitoring Teams channels or managing follow-ups while users are offline. It can be @mentioned like a colleague inside Teams, Outlook, and other Microsoft tools, with enterprise-grade permissions and governance controls built in.
Microsoft is shifting to usage-based billing for Cowork, Code, and Autopilot, while a standard user subscription license will continue to cover Copilot in Chat and across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams. IT administrators will use a new tool called FinOps for AI to manage AI spending.
The Home and Code tabs will begin rolling out to Microsoft’s Frontier early-access program in the coming weeks. Autopilot enters private preview later in September, and Code will reach Microsoft 365 Premium and Pro subscribers later in 2026.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella framed the app as foundational infrastructure, writing on X that the company is “building Copilot as a new OS for work that spans every model, every form factor, and every task.” Jared Spataro, Microsoft’s chief marketing officer of AI at work, drew a direct comparison to the company’s flagship productivity suite: “Just as Office defined work for the PC era, the new Copilot is built to define it for the AI era.”