Microsoft rethinks Copilot, pitching it as the 'OS for work' with built-in agents
tomwarren · x · 2026-10-02
The Verge's Tom Warren reports on Microsoft's major Copilot repositioning. CEO Satya Nadella held an invite-only event for key enterprise customers, pitching Copilot as the "OS for work" — betting AI will transform work like Office did in the '80s and '90s.
- Microsoft is baking coding and agent capabilities directly into Copilot, and bringing full Office power into it for the first time
- Over recent months the consumer and enterprise Copilot apps have been fused into one unified UI — a big departure from Mustafa Suleyman's consumer design from two years ago, which was influenced by Inflection AI's Pi
- Nadella likens the shift to spreadsheets replacing memos and faxes, calling Microsoft "the architect of a new frontier of work"
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