Microsoft thinks its new Copilot ‘super app’ will be as influential as Office

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After teasing its new Copilot “super app” last month, Microsoft is officially unveiling it today. The redesigned Copilot app bundles three AI capabilities into a single interface of chat, coding, and agents. As part of the launch, Microsoft is also rebranding Scout, the AI personal assistant it unveiled at Build earlier this year, as Autopilot.

This new Copilot app will have three tabs for Home, Code, and Autopilot, with Home combining Copilot Chat and Cowork together. It’s the default landing experience for Copilot users, and Microsoft is also planning to include a Today feature inside it that works as a personalized dashboard for important emails, meeting requests, Teams threads, and more.

“Home is where you get your bearings, keeping you grounded and moving forward: review recent activity, get suggestions on what Copilot can help with, and pick up work right where you left off,” explains Jared Spataro, chief marketing officer of AI at work at Microsoft.

The Code tab is the surprise addition to this so-called “super app,” and not one you’d typically associate with an app designed for knowledge workers. It will let anyone create an app, tracker, dashboard, or automation and share the results with colleagues as cloud-hosted internal apps. “Powered by the same underlying technology as GitHub Copilot, Code runs in a sandboxed environment and can be hosted securely within your tenant,” says Spataro.

Autopilot is a new addition to the Copilot experience, and one that Spataro describes as a “digital teammate.” Previously called Scout and available initially as a desktop app, Autopilot is the cloud equivalent