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From AI assistant to capable teammate: How Copilot Cowork is changing the way we work at Microsoft

What employees need is a way to set executional engines in motion so they can focus on higher-level work, stepping in only when necessary. At Microsoft, we've been working to close that gap with a new kind of agent: […] The post From AI assistant to capable teammate:

From AI assistant to capable teammate: How Copilot Cowork is changing the way we work at Microsoft

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What employees need is a way to set executional engines in motion so they can focus on higher-level work, stepping in only when necessary.

At Microsoft, we've been working to close that gap with a new kind of agent: […] The post From AI assistant to capable teammate:

Most workdays don't fall apart because employees lack ideas.

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What employees need is a way to set executional engines in motion so they can focus on higher-level work, stepping in only when necessary. At Microsoft, we've been working to close that gap with a new kind of agent: […] The post From AI assistant to capable teammate: Most workdays don't fall apart because employees lack ideas.

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  • Most workdays don't fall apart because employees lack ideas.

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Instead, challenges arise between intention and execution.

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