Charles Lamanna

Coca-Cola Beverages Africa runs 40% of the continent’s volume and they’re rethinking how planning works. With Dynamics 365 & Copilot Studio, agents now run continuous, on‑demand planning. This is where AI is headed - less manual work and more scale. Check it out: youtu.be/gEht1p2_Zjg?si…

"If you talked to a coder and told them, 'I'm going to take away GitHub Copilot and the agentic coding capabilities,' they'd be like, 'I refuse to work in this environment.'" "It's just inhumane, almost." President of Business & Industry Copilot at Microsoft @clamanna: "The same type of thing is going to happen for all information work, all office work." "Nine months from now, if you went to somebody and said, 'We're going to take away your agentic tools like Copilot Cowork,' they'd be like, 'No way, I'm not going to go back to the old way of working.'" "There's a degree of inevitability because the benefit is so large and there's such strong pull from the end users."

@jsundlo later this month for frontier, and yes! it writes code / uses the terminal extensively

@clamanna This is amazing! Can it code in the same way as Cowork from Anthropic? :) And I would love to take it for a spin to show what this can do for us in HR - when is it available for us in the Frontier program? :)

Great to see the excitement around Copilot Cowork today. I have been using it in my own work for the past few weeks, and the best way to understand it is to see it in action. Sharing a short demo from my day to day here.

@josegccs @techAU Opus right now!

@clamanna @techAU Hi Charles, will this use Opus or Sonnet? And will we know which model was used? The worry is that I might end up using a less powerful model than the one I could get using Claude Cowork

So this is a partnership with Anthropic. So when you chat you use OpenAI GPT5.x and when you Cowork you use Claude ?

@AhmedHamdy29189 part of m365 copilot

@clamanna I have 3 copilots installed on my computer. (1) Copilot from my retail subscription (2) copilot from Office 365 (3) Github Copilot --- is cowork a 4th addition?

@marxmatt and cowork can do it too, and even reply to the email or help scheduling -

@marxmatt check it out with copilot in outlook, just tested

@FlowAltDelete @satyanadella send me a mail Josh, we'll get you into it this week

@clamanna @satyanadella Bro, we are so excited. Can’t wait for this to be enabled for Frontier customers. Or you can enable my org as preview 😉😁

@techAU Copilot Cowork runs on a container in the cloud - so your tasks are visible across devices and will keep going even if you close your laptop / log out. If you use OneDrive, it can get to those local files in the cloud too (and some cool stuff happens too, like restore... ;))

@clamanna Cheers, wondering about it running against local files and the user forgetting and turning off the machine, any warnings/reminders to users ?

The era of Copilot execution is here. Introducing Copilot Cowork – a new way to delegate work across Microsoft 365 with checkpoints + approval built in. Check it out: aka.ms/m365cowork

SharePoint Showcase: Automation updates for smarter workflows & business processes Big update on automations spanning deterministic and AI with consistent experience across SharePoint and Teams. techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/SPBlog/sh…

I had the opportunity to join AI Inside with @JasonHowell & @jeffjarvis ahead of Ignite to talk about how Microsoft is helping customers manage, secure and scale AI agents in the enterprise. Check out the podcast to learn more about the launch of Agent 365!

Wherever you build – in Copilot Studio and Microsoft Foundry – or use partner agents, Agent 365 will allow you to run them securely and at scale. Read more in the blog and try it out in Frontier now: aka.ms/Agent365HeroBl…

AI agents are becoming core to how work gets done. Today we’re introducing Agent 365 – a powerful new control plane to govern agents at scale. #MSIgnite (1/3)

Five things you get: Registry, Access Control, Visualization, Interoperability, and Security. Built on Microsoft security & compliance from Defender, Entra and Purview. (2/3)

We've been hard at work advancing M365 Copilot, and so have our many partners who are building agents that integrate with Copilot and Teams to transform how work gets done. A few great examples:

We're officially attempting a GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ title for: "Most Participants in a Generative AI Hackathon". Let’s build, learn, and make history — together. 🔗 Register now and join the Agent Hack: msft.it/6015s0kfH

Last week, we announced the availability of Anthropic models in Copilot Studio – bringing greater flexibility to makers in Microsoft 365 Copilot. Today, we’re building on that momentum: Claude Sonnet 4.5, Anthropic’s most advanced model yet, is now rolling out for orchestration and prompt building. Read the blog to learn more: microsoft.com/en-us/microsof…