copilot tasks

Microsoft’s new Copilot Tasks marks a deliberate pivot from conversational assistants to autonomous, scheduled work — a cloud‑first agent that does rather than just answers. Announced on February 26, 2026, as a research preview, Copilot Tasks runs in its own sandboxed cloud environment with a...

Weatherbys’ move to rebuild the engines that run horse racing and animal genomics on Microsoft’s Power Platform represents one of the clearest examples yet of a heritage business using modern low‑code tooling to resolve decades‑old technical debt while keeping custodial responsibilities — like...

Microsoft’s Copilot has quietly crossed a threshold: it no longer just answers questions — with the public preview of Copilot Tasks, Microsoft is giving the assistant permission to plan, schedule, and run multi‑step workflows in the background on your behalf, effectively turning your to‑do list...

Microsoft has just flipped a switch in the AI assistant playbook: Copilot Tasks moves Microsoft’s Copilot from answering questions to doing work for you — spinning up its own cloud PC and browser to plan, execute, and report on multi‑step workflows you describe in plain English. Background...

Microsoft has quietly pushed Copilot from the realm of suggestions and drafts into a new category: an AI that actually gets things done for you. With the research-preview rollout of Copilot Tasks, Microsoft is testing a cloud-hosted, browser-driven agent that accepts plain‑English goals, maps...

Microsoft’s next phase for Copilot is less a conversational novelty and more a pragmatic shift: Copilot Tasks promises to be an always‑available, cloud‑powered AI agent that does work for you — composing and sending emails, building study plans, generating editable Office deliverables, and...

Microsoft has quietly moved Copilot beyond conversation and into execution: Copilot Tasks is a new, cloud‑driven capability that accepts plain‑English goals, builds multi‑step plans, spins up its own browser and compute environment, and runs workflows in the background — returning progress...

Microsoft has quietly pushed Copilot past the point of conversation and into the realm of background work with the introduction of Copilot Tasks — a cloud‑hosted, browser‑driven agent that builds multi‑step plans from plain‑English goals and executes them on your behalf while keeping you in the...

Microsoft today pushed Copilot past conversation and into continuous background work with the public preview of Copilot Tasks — a cloud‑hosted, browser‑driven agent that plans, executes, and reports back on multi‑step workflows you describe in plain English. The feature is rolling out as a...

Microsoft has quietly shifted Copilot from being a conversational helper into an assistant that can act on your behalf: Copilot Tasks is a new agentic capability that accepts natural‑language goals, builds multi‑step plans, and executes them in the background using its own cloud‑based compute...

Microsoft’s Copilot has taken a decisive step beyond chat: with the new Copilot Tasks research preview, the company is offering an agentic AI that will plan, act, and return results on multi‑step work you describe in plain English — and you can now join a public waitlist to try it. Background /...

Microsoft’s Copilot has taken the next step from conversation to completion: today’s announcement of Copilot Tasks marks a deliberate pivot from chat-first AI to agentic, action-oriented automation that runs scheduled, recurring, and one-off workflows on your behalf — browsing, coordinating...

Microsoft's latest move turns Copilot from a conversational helper into an autonomous worker: Copilot Tasks promises to accept natural‑language instructions, spin up its own browser and compute environment, and perform multi‑step work in the background — scheduling, interacting with web pages...

Microsoft’s latest Copilot iteration aims to stop asking what you want and start doing it for you: Copilot Tasks promises a natural‑language, scheduled, and background-capable to‑do list that autonomously plans, executes, and reports back—while still asking for permission before money or...

Microsoft’s internal Copilot builds now show a promising — and potentially disruptive — new feature: Copilot Tasks, a unified interface that appears to bundle scheduled automation with two reasoning-focused agents named Researcher and Analyst, plus an “Auto” mode that can chain browsing, data...

Microsoft’s internal Copilot builds now show signs of a unified “Tasks” experience that bundles scheduling, agent selection, and end-to-end automation into a single interface — and a recent TestingCatalog report suggests Microsoft is testing built-in Researcher and Analyst agents inside that...