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Microsoft Agent 365 Goes GA May 1 — Per-User Licensing Covers Your Entire Agent Fleet

Microsoft’s enterprise AI agent platform just got a clearer pricing model — and the answer to “how much does this cost?” is finally something you can budget against. Microsoft Agent 365 goes generally available on May 1, 2026, with a licensing structure designed to solve one of the core frustrations of the preview period: per-agent pricing that scaled exponentially with deployment size. The new model is simpler: one license per user, all agents included. ...

OpenClaw Is Coming to Microsoft 365: What the New Hire Signals for Enterprise AI Agents

Microsoft made two OpenClaw-related moves this week that, taken together, perfectly capture the enterprise AI agent paradox: they hired someone specifically to bring OpenClaw into Microsoft 365, and they issued a security guidance document specifically warning enterprises not to deploy OpenClaw on standard workstations. Both are correct. That’s the tension. The Hire: Omar Shahine to Lead OpenClaw in M365 Omar Shahine, previously known for his work on Outlook and various Microsoft productivity products, has been hired by Microsoft to lead the integration of OpenClaw and personal AI agents into the Microsoft 365 ecosystem. Windows Central confirmed the hire. ...

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Microsoft Agent 365 GA: Governing Enterprise AI Agents Before They Become 'Double Agents'

Eighty percent of Fortune 500 companies are already running AI agents inside their organizations. Nearly a third of those agents weren’t officially sanctioned by IT. That’s the uncomfortable statistic Microsoft dropped Monday as it announced the general availability of Agent 365 — a $15/user/month control plane designed to govern the growing population of AI agents operating inside enterprise environments before they become what VentureBeat memorably called “corporate double agents.” The Problem Agent 365 Solves AI agents have crossed from experimental to operational. They’re filing tickets, managing calendars, writing code, processing invoices, and increasingly taking actions with real business consequences. Most organizations deployed them faster than they built governance frameworks around them. ...

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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. ...