Microsoft’s new Copilot unifies enterprise context for chat and code

Microsoft’s Copilot super-app has arrived, two months after CEO Satya Nadella confirmed it was in development. It combines conversational Chat, the autonomous Cowork agent, a redesigned coding environment named Code, and Autopilot, the persistent agent formerly known as Scout, into a single Copilot experience. The idea is to make those capabilities look less like separate tools and more like different ways of getting work done through a unified experience. The end goal is to enable users to describe what they want to accomplish without choosing a mode themselves, and with Copilot routing the task to Chat, Cowork, Code or another capability, Microsoft said. The individual pieces of this experience are not entirely new, and build on launches and consolidation moves that Microsoft has made over the past several months. Nadella first described the unified Copilot architecture during an earnings call in July. He said it would bring chat, agents and business workflows into a single AI workspace while separating the orchestration layer, context and memory from any one AI model. Microsoft subsequently began unifying its consumer and Microsoft 365 Copilot apps ahead of the broader overhaul…

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