Microsoft turns Copilot into agents that coordinate tasks across business apps
Microsoft has advanced Copilot from a prompt-based assistant into an agentic platform that can perform actions on its own. The update introduces Copilot Cowork to access and manage multiple Microsoft 365 apps at once along with Copilot Tasks for handling specific operations such as bookings. This direction draws from OpenClaw style digital workers and targets integration with tools like Power Apps for broader automation.
Until recently Copilot required users to guide every step within one application at a time, leaving citizen developers to handle all data connections and logic manually. The agentic approach now lets the system initiate and complete cross-app workflows independently, which means Power Apps built on SharePoint will either gain reliable automation partners or become sources of repeated errors when the underlying lists lack consistent structure.
Analysis
This is a trap if you treat it as future magic that will rescue sloppy builds. Standardize column names and data types in your main SharePoint list today so any agent that arrives next quarter has something reliable to work with instead of inventing its own failures.
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