Microsoft relaunches Copilot with Home, Code and Autopilot

Microsoft introduced a redesigned Copilot on September 25, built around three parts: Home, Code and Autopilot. According to Microsoft, Home and Code begin rolling out through its Frontier early-access program in the coming weeks, and Autopilot is expanding to private preview at the end of September.

The post gives no exact Frontier availability dates or pricing amounts. The redesign follows Microsoft’s earlier rollout of a unified Copilot app that merged its consumer and Microsoft 365 Copilot clients.

Microsoft describes Home as the place where Chat and Cowork come together. It integrates Office apps (Word, Excel and PowerPoint) so users can work with documents inside Copilot.

Code is aimed at people who are not developers. Microsoft says users can describe an app, tracker, dashboard, automation or workflow in natural language, and Copilot selects the approach and builds it. Code runs in a sandboxed environment and uses GitHub Copilot’s underlying technology, per Microsoft.

Autopilot is described as a persistent agent that keeps working on a user’s behalf: users give it a name, a role and a goal, and it monitors channels and manages recurring tasks. The company also says @Copilot in Teams will be in private preview by the end of the month, and a feature called Today, part of Home, enters private preview in October.

Microsoft is introducing a two-tier billing model. A User Subscription License (USL) is a fixed-cost tier covering Chat, Office in Copilot and model selection, while Usage-Based Billing (UBB) applies to agentic work in Cowork, Code and Autopilot.

On governance, Microsoft says a Managed Runtime, currently in preview, hosts code inside a company’s Microsoft 365 environment, and that plugins are managed through a unified catalog where IT can approve them centrally.