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Microsoft executive who leads the company's unified Copilot organisation.
Microsoft retires Group Chat, Podcasts, Copilot Labs and consumer Deep Research on August 18, and demotes its mascot the same day. Anyone building on Copilot should price in the churn.
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Microsoft ships its Nvidia Arm-based Surface Laptop Ultra on October 16 from $2,599, with a $5,999 developer box in November. The base laptop has 24GB of the chip's possible 128GB, and launch coverage prices only one 128GB machine: the box.
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Ryan Roslansky, who took LinkedIn from 700 million to 1.3 billion members, will leave Microsoft at the end of 2026, citing his family's ties to the Bay Area. Nadella will split the Microsoft 365 and Copilot role among executives already in place.
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Ryan Roslansky, Microsoft's Office and Teams chief, is leaving after nearly 18 years, a week after the company announced its new Copilot. His teams now report to Charles Lamanna in the Copilot, Agents, and Platform organization, so Office is run from inside Microsoft's Copilot group.
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Satya Nadella pitched Microsoft's merged Copilot app to invited enterprise customers as the 'OS for work', with tabs for chat, coding and an Autopilot agent. IT teams now have to plan for a second route into Office, along with an agent whose autonomy Copilot chief Jacob Andreou calls terrifying to admins.
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Microsoft's rebuilt Copilot app bills Cowork, Code and Autopilot by usage while Chat stays on per-user licenses. Companies piloting it will pay in step with how much work staff hand to the agent, so the useful measure is tasks it finishes.
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Microsoft's new Copilot app bills coding and agents by use, while fewer than 7% of over 450 million commercial 365 seats pay for Copilot. Usage billing lets Microsoft charge its existing Copilot customers more whether or not the unlicensed majority ever signs up.
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Microsoft's unified Copilot app adds Code and Autopilot tabs for Microsoft 365 customers, with usage-based billing under a cost model still called 'evolving'. Firms deep in Microsoft 365 get AI that works inside their own tenant, on a bill they cannot yet forecast.
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Microsoft merged its Copilot line into one business-focused super app whose most autonomous agents cost extra by usage, on top of 30 million paid seats. Autopilot goes to a restricted test first, so buyers face a metered cost they cannot yet price.
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Microsoft will bill the Cowork, Code and Autopilot parts of its combined Copilot app by usage, with fewer than 7% of 450 million-plus Office seats licensed. The meter lets buyers pay for the few staff who use agents, though the app still leans on OpenAI and Anthropic models and its Home tab has no Microsoft option.
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Shaw told staff he is going at the end of the year. Microsoft has 111 days to replace the executive who has framed Azure's growth, the OpenAI and Anthropic partnerships and the Xbox problem. He is 64 and has not decided what is next.
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