Microsoft redesigns Copilot: Home, Code, and Autopilots aim to automate more of your work

The useful part

When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. by Mark Hachman Senior Editor, PCWorld Microsoft Copilot wants to automate your work. News Sep 25, 2026 For years, collaborating inside Office documents has been the foundation of Microsoft's productivity scheme.

How it works

• In a telling sign of the AI era, users may collaborate and share custom apps they've created themselves in Copilot.
• Microsoft just announced changes to Copilot that realize a deeper vision of AI in the workplace.
• (Click the Copilot button in the Outlook app to trigger this.) Mark Hachman / Foundry Like Copilot, Today will also prepare a summary of your day, but a more interactive one.
• Microsoft 365 within Copilot Until now, application vendors have used artificial intelligence to help human users navigate through a maze of tasks and functions, simplifying and automating them.
• Likewise, you'll now be able to ask Copilot to create a spreadsheet and it will, if all goes as planned, open an Excel spreadsheet and input the correct data.

What to take from it

Microsoft Today is full of tasks "Today" sounds like the most immediately useful tool in Microsoft's new design, and that's because you've seen iterations of it ever since Windows 10. He recently handed over a collection of several dozen Thunderbolt docks and USB-C hubs because his office simply has no more room. "So Today leverages Copilot to write the draft that needs to be sent.

Example or evidence

• Today's announcement marks the sort of vision statement that Microsoft is known for:
• "Today" will launch in a private preview in October as well, Microsoft said.
• For years, Microsoft has used what it knows about your inbox to offer a look at your meetings for the day and what you need to do to prepare for them.
• If there's a thing that you forgot, it'll surface it back to you but always with the context of what actually makes it important." Microsoft's Andreou demonstrates the Today functionality.

Details worth keeping

Microsoft Copilot wants to automate your work. This doesn't affect our editorial independence. Home, Code, and agents, now called "Autopilots." Other changes are more functional, such as a more comprehensive "Today" dashboard that outlines and even performs your to-do tasks.

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