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What is Copilot Cowork?

Most of Copilot is reactive – you ask, it answers. Copilot Cowork flips that on its head. Instead of waiting for the next prompt, you describe an outcome you want, and Cowork builds a plan, works through the steps across your Microsoft 365 apps, and checks in with you before taking action that affects anyone else.

Here’s what a good one covers.

Microsoft launched it in the Frontier preview back in March 2026, and it hit general availability worldwide on June 16, 2026.

A few real things Cowork can do:

  • Clean up your week – reschedule meetings, kill conflicts, block focus time
  • Prep you for a client meeting using emails, Teams chats, files, and CRM data
  • Triage your inbox, draft replies, and surface threads that actually need you
  • Run a budget review – pull data, build the report, email it for sign-off

It’s powered by Anthropic’s Claude models (Opus 4.8 and Sonnet 4.6) plus GPT 5.5, all running inside your secure Microsoft 365 tenant. Billing is usage-based through Copilot Credits, so admins can set per-user or per-group caps to prevent surprise bills.

Cowork is where Copilot stops being an assistant and starts being a teammate.

The takeaway. Ninety days from chaos to controlled rollout. Skip steps and you’ll feel it later. Follow the timeline and AI actually sticks.

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