Our Take
Given how quickly these updates are landing, it’s pretty clear Microsoft is investing heavily in expanding what Cowork can do. In our testing, Cowork has been solid and reliable, though it still benefits from a bit of human guidance and these new tools will be no different. It’ll be interesting to watch how Cowork evolves over the next few months and see what new shiny features Microsoft rolls out next.
Last month, Copilot Cowork rolled out to all members of the frontier program and users around the world have started to dig in.
From automating inbox workflows to spinning up highly visual web pages, early users have been testing Cowork in creative and unexpected ways. The consensus that we have seen from our network is that there is a big appetite for agentic AI that can complete tasks for you, but Cowork is missing some key features to really turn it into your "AI assistant."
Today, Microsoft is sharing three major feature additions to Cowork that expand what it can do and where it can show up in your day‑to‑day work.
Copilot Cowork Comes to Mobile
First up: mobile support.
Copilot Cowork is now available on iOS and Android. Microsoft is talking a lot about users having the ability to start something on their phone and then pick it up on their computer. Instead of jotting down a note or reminder to “do this later,” you can use Cowork to get started on that task on the go. It's another step in the right direction for getting Cowork to act as an actual assistant.
Skills: Capturing How Work Gets Done
The second update introduces Skills, a new way to capture and reuse how work gets done.
Rather than starting from scratch each time, Skills allow teams to identify common workflows, approaches, or patterns and scale them across the organization. If there’s a process that works well, Cowork can learn from it and apply it again.
In a lot of organizations, different teams end up running into the same problem and instead of solving it together, everyone builds their own version of a solution, with mixed results. We covered this issue on episode 54 of the Make Others Successful podcast, and this tool in Cowork feels like another practical addition to the organizational toolbox to help with a solve for that. If you want to hear more about our thinking on silos and some ways to fix them, check out that episode here.
Plugins and Integrations Bring Your Tools into Cowork
The third update is the one that really opens up a world of possibilities for the capabilities of this tool: integrations.
With new plugins and integrations, Copilot Cowork can now plug into the tools and systems teams already rely on, bringing more of your data into the flow of work. That includes integrations with Dynamics 365, allowing Cowork to participate more directly in business processes that live outside of Microsoft 365 apps.
Whether you're using an external project management tool like Monday.com or you want Cowork to tie directly into power BI, these integrations open up a world of possibilities. The current integrations we have access to are limited, but as this access grows, it could be very powerful.
The external integrations Microsoft has already announced are
- LSEG
- Miro
- Monday.com
- S&P Global energy
