Microsoft rebuilds Copilot as super app with Home, Code, and Autopilot tabs
Microsoft released a rebuilt Copilot on September 25 merging consumer and enterprise assistants into one app with Home, Code, and Autopilot tabs, with agent features moving to usage-based billing.
On September 25, Microsoft launched a rebuilt Copilot application that consolidates previously scattered Copilot surfaces across Windows, Office, GitHub, and the web into a single "super app" with three modules: Home, Code, and Autopilot. CEO Satya Nadella described it in posts that week as "a new operating system for work."
Home is the default landing experience, combining Chat and Copilot Cowork on one screen and offering summaries of recent activity. Through a feature called "Office in Copilot," Word, Excel, and PowerPoint open inside Copilot so users can edit documents or generate tables without leaving the app. Code mode lets users describe apps, trackers, dashboards, automations, or workflows in natural language; the same engine that powers GitHub Copilot generates TypeScript/React apps that can be hosted securely inside a customer’s Microsoft 365 environment through the new Microsoft Copilot Managed Runtime.
Autopilot is a persistent always-on agent — the renamed Scout first shown at Build in June — with its own cloud computer instance, identity, and memory. It can be @-mentioned in Teams, Outlook, chats, and channels and continues work when the user is offline. Basic chat features remain covered by existing per-user licenses, while Cowork, Code, Autopilot, and frontier-model access are billed through usage-based Copilot Credits on top of the seat license. According to BLOOMBERG, Microsoft 365 Copilot had about 30 million paid seats in July — roughly 7 percent of the estimated 450 million commercial Microsoft 365 seats.