Microsoft redesigns its Copilot desktop app with new Home, Code, and Autopilot tabs

In an effort to regain market share lost to rivals like ChatGPT and Claude, Microsoft has announced what it calls the biggest redesign yet of the Copilot app, built around three tabs: Home, Code, and Autopilot, combining AI chat, app building tools, and autonomous agents into a single chat-style interface.

Home combines Copilot Chat and Cowork as the default workspace, with recent activity, suggested tasks, and ongoing work. Microsoft also plans a Today dashboard for emails, meeting requests, Teams threads, and other updates. Code lets users create trackers, dashboards, automations, and internal apps, then share them with coworkers as cloud-hosted tools running in a sandbox within the organization’s Microsoft tenant. It uses technology related to GitHub Copilot.

Scout, Microsoft’s AI personal assistant, is also being renamed Autopilot, a persistent cloud-based assistant that can monitor Teams channels, run recurring tasks, and handle follow-ups even when users are offline. Each instance has its own identity, memory, computer, and workspace, while Microsoft 365 permissions, auditing, and governance remain in place.

Cowork, Code, and Autopilot will use consumption-based billing, so long-running tasks and some model usage can generate additional costs beyond standard subscriptions. Home and Code will reach Frontier early access in the coming weeks, while Autopilot enters private preview later this month.

Separately, Microsoft has also confirmed that newer Surface devices still meet Copilot+ PC hardware requirements, but will no longer use the Copilot+ PC name in product branding, which says quite a bit about how unpopular the Copilot+ label and broader Copilot branding have been so far.