Microsoft Unveils Copilot Cowork, Agent 365, and E7 Suite — Built With Anthropic's Claude
Microsoft dropped what may be the most consequential enterprise AI announcement of 2026 today at its Frontier Transformation digital event: Copilot Cowork, a new agentic capability built directly on Anthropic’s Claude, a new enterprise governance platform called Agent 365, and a brand-new Microsoft 365 E7 license tier — all arriving as the company races to stay ahead of the agentic AI wave it helped ignite. From Assistant to Agent: Wave 3 of Copilot Microsoft is calling today’s launch “Wave 3 of Microsoft 365 Copilot,” and the distinction matters. Previous waves were about making Copilot smarter and more contextual. This wave is about making it act. ...