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.
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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...