AI at Work Roadmap

Explore the newest innovations built for work, from core apps to Copilot and agents.

The AI at Work roadmap provides estimated release dates and descriptions for commercial features. All information is subject to change. As a feature or product becomes generally available, or is cancelled or postponed, information will be removed from this website. If Targeted release is available, the Rollout start date will reflect the change beginning to appear in Targeted release followed by Standard release, otherwise the Rollout start date will reflect the change beginning to appear in Standard release.

Latest announcements

Latest

September 25

Introducing the new Copilot with Home, Code, and Autopilot

September 14

Now available: Brand Kit and Skills in Copilot in PowerPoint

September 1

Available today: Anthropic Claude Fable 5.1 in Microsoft Copilot

July 9

Available today: OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 in Microsoft 365 Copilot

June 24

Available now: New Copilot in Excel capabilities built for finance workflows

June 2 Microsoft Build

Announcing the new Work IQ APIs

Introducing Microsoft Scout

May 26

Copilot Notebooks gets smarter for Microsoft 365 Copilot users

May 5

2026 Work Trend Index Annual Report

Copilot Cowork: From conversation to action across skills, integrations, and devices

Federated Copilot connectors: Bringing real-time enterprise data within Microsoft 365 Copilot

April 30

Word: Legal Agent in Frontier

Work IQ API public preview brings Copilot intelligence into agent-to-agent communication

April 16-24

Dynamics 365 now delivers new agentic capabilities across manufacturing

Copilot’s agentic capabilities in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint are generally available

Available today: Anthropic Claude Opus 4.7 in Microsoft 365 Copilot

March 30

Copilot Cowork: Now Available in Frontier

Introducing multi-model intelligence in Researcher

September 25

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September 14

September 4

September 1

July 24

July 9

July 2

June 24

Junne 16

June 2

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May 1

September 22

Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol are joining model choice in Microsoft 365 Copilot

September 4

Available today: OpenAI GPT-6 Astra in Microsoft Copilot

July 24

Available today: Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5 in Microsoft 365 Copilot

July 2

Available today: Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 5 in Microsoft 365 Copilot

June 16

Copilot Cowork is now generally available

May 28

Available today: Anthropic Claude Opus 4.8 in Microsoft 365 Copilot

Introducing Microsoft 365 Business with Copilot: The new standard for small business

Introducing a new design for Microsoft 365 Copilot

May 7

Available today: GPT-5.5 Instant in Microsoft 365 Copilot

May 1

Microsoft 365 E7 and Agent 365 are now generally available

April 27

Copilot in Outlook: New agentic experiences for email and calendar

Real-time voice agents in Microsoft Copilot Studio transform customer experience

Available today: GPT-5.5 Thinking and ChatGPT Images 2.0 in Microsoft 365 Copilot

April 7-13

Bring your everyday business apps into the flow of work with agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot

Copilot in Word: New Capabilities for Document Workflows

Latest enhancements for Copilot security, management, and analytics

March 9

Powering Frontier Transformation with Copilot and agents

Introducing the First Frontier Worker Suite Built on Intelligence + Trust

Now available

These features are now generally available.

Brand Kit helps presentations start with the right look for your organization by bringing approved templates, assets, and branding into the creation experience, while Skills make common presentation workflows repeatable so Copilot can help you work through them consistently

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Skills and federated Copilot connectors help finance teams work to their own standards, codify repeatable workflows, and ground analysis in trusted financial data partners.

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Work IQ is a workplace intelligence layer that provides a semantic understanding of everything happening across Microsoft 365, organizational systems, and external sources. You get agent‑ready intelligence, governance, and context in a single platform—helping agents reason, act, and scale more effectively.

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Coming soon

These features are currently in development.

Copilot Managed Runtime helps you securely deploy, run, integrate, and govern apps built with Microsoft or third-party tools, bringing AI-created solutions into production faster while providing the security, governance, and lifecycle management needed at enterprise scale.

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Turn your ideas into business apps using natural language in Copilot Cowork and Copilot Studio. Describe what you need, then refine your app through conversation and connect it to your organization’s data and systems. When you publish, IT admins have centralized visibility and controls to help manage your app.

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Make decisions with confidence. Researcher brings leading AI models together with two new capabilities to refine responses from GPT with Claude with Critique, and compare GPT and Claude responses side by side with Council.

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New Copilot with Home, Code, and Autopilot

Copilot Cowork: Multiple models, matched to your work

Copilot Notebooks: Smarter experience for Microsoft 365 Copilot users

Copilot in Word: Legal Agent

New Copilot with Home, Code, and Autopilot

The new Copilot brings together Home, Code, and Autopilot to help you turn ideas into solutions, extend solution-building to your knowledge work, and automate ongoing tasks with a proactive personal agent.

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