Microsoft split the Copilot app into Home, Code and Autopilot. Home joins chat with Cowork and brings Word, Excel and PowerPoint inside Copilot; Code uses the same technology as GitHub Copilot. Home and Code roll out through the Frontier early-access programme in the coming weeks, and Autopilot, formerly Scout, enters private preview at the end of the month.
According to Jared Spataro's 25 September post, the new Copilot has three parts. Home joins chat with Cowork and brings Word, Excel and PowerPoint inside Copilot. Code uses the same technology as GitHub Copilot and runs in a sandboxed environment inside the customer organisation's own Microsoft tenant.[1]
Microsoft describes Autopilot, formerly called Scout, as a persistent agent with its own identity, memory, computer and workspace. Users can call it by mentioning it in Teams, Outlook and documents. The Verge treats the new app, which puts chat, coding and Autopilot agents in one interface, as Microsoft's bid to make Copilot as influential as Office.[1], [2]
The product is not yet a finished general release. Microsoft says Home and Code roll out through its Frontier early-access programme in the weeks after the post, and Autopilot enters private preview at the end of the month. The same post says Fabric IQ, which grounds chat and Cowork in Power BI semantic models, is generally available today. Frontier is Microsoft's early-access programme, in which a group of customers tries new features first.[1]
