Microsoft releases Copilot Cowork for general use
Reviewed by Helen Jones
Copilot Cowork became generally available on 16 June 2026. It runs complex, multi-step tasks across Microsoft 365 services using cloud resources and multiple AI models. The service requires a Microsoft 365 Copilot licence plus usage-based charges billed in Copilot Credits. Nine partner plugins are available now, with eight more and full Dynamics 365 support arriving soon. Tenant, group, and user-level controls for cost and usage were added at launch. Billing starts immediately for new users, though Frontier preview participants keep a grace period until 1 July.
Before this release, most Power Automate users worked with triggers and actions they could see, test, and fix when something broke. Failures stayed visible in run history and costs stayed predictable inside existing licences. Now an agent can start a long sequence of actions, spend credits while it works, and stop without the same level of visibility or clear ownership. Teams that already chase missing approvals or silent flow failures now face the same risk at higher speed and higher cost.
Analysis
Block Copilot Cowork at the tenant level for now and require any request to use it to include a named owner, a spend limit, and an alert on failure before the first credit is spent.
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