Do Purpose-Built Apps Still Matter in a Chat-Driven World

🤔 What if your AI actually became your work‑buddy? ⬇️ 🤩 For some time now, I have been lucky to work with Copilot Cowork - it quickly turned into my daily work‑buddy. I simply hand over tasks to Cowork while I focus on something else or even sit in another meeting. Coming back later to review the results, fine‑tune them or directly continue the work feels incredibly natural. 📖 Skills that remember how I like things done One feature I particularly enjoy is quickly adding skills to save a specific style or structure for recurring tasks. Once defined, Cowork simply pulls them off the shelf and applies them consistently to future requests - smooth, intuitive and surprisingly powerful. 📱 My work‑buddy - everywhere With Copilot Cowork available in the Microsoft 365 Copilot mobile app, it doesn��t matter where I am or which device I’m using. An idea on the go? A task between meetings? I can delegate it immediately and come back to the results later. 📎 Want to see what’s new - including connecting CRM or ERP data?https://lnkd.in/e4MnTWBz #Microsoft #Microsoft365 #Microsoft365Copilot #CopilotCowork #AgenticAI #Productivity *image created with Microsoft Designer in Copilot Chat

Microsoft’s April 2026 Copilot Studio update adds stronger governance, workflow automation, and app integrations. It introduces Microsoft Agent 365 for centralized agent management, new admin and analytics controls, workflow testing tools, and in-chat app experiences. The release helps organizations scale AI agents with better visibility into performance, security, and costs, while enabling deeper integration with business systems. #CopilotStudio #AIWorkflowAutomation #EnterpriseAI #MicrosoftCopilot #AIGovernance

🚀 Copilot Cowork: From conversation to action. Over the past few years, AI has fundamentally changed how we access information and generate insights. The next evolution is clear: helping people actually get work done. That’s exactly what Copilot Cowork is about—moving from prompts and conversations to real execution across workflows, systems, and teams. Over the last month, we’ve seen incredible momentum across the Frontier program. From automating inbox workflows to building highly visual web experiences, the creativity and real-world use cases partners are developing are truly inspiring. And today, we’re taking the next step with three powerful updates: 🔹 Mobile (iOS & Android) Delegate work on the go and return to completed outcomes—AI that works for you, wherever you are. 🔹 Skills Capture how work gets done and turn it into reusable, scalable capabilities across your organization. 🔹 Plugins & Integrations (including Dynamics 365) Bring your data, tools, and business applications into Copilot Cowork—unlocking end-to-end scenarios across your ecosystem. 💡 The opportunity for partners is significant: ➡️ Move beyond pilots to production-grade automation ➡️ Build repeatable IP and scalable services ➡️ Lead customers into the next wave of AI-driven execution If you haven’t explored it yet, I highly recommend reading the latest blogs by Charles Lamanna and Bryan Goode for deeper dives; https://lnkd.in/exrqDWVV & https://lnkd.in/dMwXYgB7 Let’s build the future of work—together. #MicrosoftPartners #Copilot #AITransformation #Dynamics365 #FrontierFirm #Innovation #FutureOfWork #FrontierPartner #BizAppsMSNL

🤖 New in Microsoft 365 Copilot: Cowork gets mobile support and plugins Cowork is designed for long-running, multi-step work inside Microsoft 365 Copilot Now, it becomes more useful in two ways: ▶️ Mobile support Cowork is rolling out in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on iOS and Android, so users can start, follow, and continue delegated work from their phone ▶️ Plugins Cowork can now be extended with native and custom plugins, adding new skills and connectors to the experience. This means organizations can bring more tools and data into Cowork workflows, including Microsoft services like Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Fabric Other partner integrations are also coming, including LSEG, Miro, monday.com, and S&P Global Energy Useful for tasks like: ✅ preparing meeting follow-ups ✅ creating documents ✅ coordinating calendar actions ✅ working across business systems ✅ reusing specific skills in repeated workflows Available through the Frontier program #Microsoft365Copilot #Copilot #AI #FutureOfWork #Agents

Agent Platform Advisor The Agent Platform Advisor is a single-page web app that recommends the right Microsoft agent platform — Agent Builder, Copilot Studio, Microsoft Foundry, or Microsoft 365 Copilot — based on a short scored assessment. From the welcome screen you choose one of three paths: ✏️ Take the assessment — a 5-question wizard that scores each platform and produces a recommendation ✏️Microsoft 365 Copilot fast-track — skips the wizard when the user only needs built-in M365 Copilot experiences ✏️Guided exploration — browse all four platforms with scenario-focused summaries before deciding whether to start the assessment The assessment asks about: ✏️ Who is building the agent (business user, low-code maker, developer, data scientist) ✏️ Who will use it (internal employees or external users) ✏️Where users will interact with it (Microsoft 365 apps, a custom app, or background/event-triggered) ✏️ What the agent should do (Q&A, multi-turn conversation, multi-step tasks, or complex orchestration) ✏️ What data the agent needs to access (Microsoft 365 content, external systems, or advanced data sources) https://lnkd.in/gpgQTGCt #AIAgents #Copilot #Microsoft365 #MSAI #CopilotStudio #AzureAI #MicrosoftCAT

App Builder in Microsoft Copilot: Turning Ideas into Apps Faster Than Ever Building internal apps has traditionally required time, technical depth, and close coordination between business teams and IT. With App Builder in Microsoft Copilot, that barrier is coming down. App Builder is an AI‑powered agent designed to help teams create, refine, and evolve internal applications—faster, smarter, and with less friction. What is App Builder in Microsoft Copilot? App Builder is part of the broader Microsoft Copilot agent ecosystem. Its purpose is simple but powerful: help users design and improve apps by guiding structure, logic, data connections, and user experience—right where they’re building. Instead of starting from a blank canvas, App Builder acts as a thinking partner, helping you: Outline app functionality Understand how components fit together Reason through data models and integrations Identify gaps or improvement opportunities

Question: Could Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat make your workday simpler? Answer: Yes — it helps you stay focused without jumping between apps. Here are a few ways to use Copilot Chat: • Summarise email threads so you can act faster • Prepare for meetings with key points and agendas • Find important info across files and chats in seconds Want a demo or more info on using Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat effectively? 🌐 https://lnkd.in/eCZdWrHh #ImmersiveIT #MicrosoftCopilot #Productivity #AIatWork #DigitalTransformation #ITSupport #BusinessIT #SmallBusinessUK #EssexBusiness #SouthendBusiness #LocalITSupport

💡 Power Apps + Copilot Studio = the combination your team needs to know about right now. With the 2026 Wave 1 release, the integration between the two has leveled up significantly. Here's a quick breakdown: 🔷 Agents now inherit your app's business rules, permissions, and data models — so they're not starting from scratch 🔷 Agent Feed is now GA — monitor agent actions in real time, right inside your model-driven app 🔷 Canvas apps get Copilot in public preview — AI assistance across even more app types 🔷 Forms can now auto-convert emails and documents into structured fields with a review step before saving The days of switching between your app and a separate AI tool are numbered. The best part? This is all low-code. You don't need a dev team to start building intelligent apps that actually work the way your business works. What's one repetitive process in your org that could be automated with this? 👇 #PowerApps #CopilotStudio #PowerPlatform #MicrosoftCopilot #AIAutomation #LowCodeNoCode #FutureOfWork #Microsoft #Jobs #IT #Tranformation #Innovation #Governance #Integration #C2C #PowerBI #Copilot #NoCode #USAjobs #Security

Here's how Teamenu helps your teams get their time back. They run on resources spread across hundreds of tools: internal apps, portals, shared spaces, wikis, AI agents, cloud apps, legacy IT, databases, whiteboards, reports… and now they're vibe-coding even more. Teamenu does not replace those apps. It makes what’s hiding *inside* easy to navigate. Teamenu gives employees instant access to the exact set of deep link resources they need, across all enterprise tools and apps, available in – Chrome and Edge extensions. – Microsoft Teams or Slack bots. – Mobile and accessible web interfaces. Teamenu also shows #AIassistant colleagues where to point users to, and where to go to run a task: – They simply join teams and projects. – They access Teamenu via MCP, CLI or API. How? Teamenu spots resources used and shared, to generate stable deep links and share them with the teams who need them. – No documents or data ingested. – No changes to familiar apps. – No more broken links. #digitalworkplace #msteams #copilot #employeeexperience #intranet #enterpriseux #applicationarchitecture #enterprisedesign #enterprisearchitecture

#Copilot Cowork just shipped three updates worth paying attention to 👇 1️⃣ Mobile (iOS + Android) You can now delegate work from your phone, let it run in the background, and come back to finished results. Make Copilot work for you when you are on the go. 2️⃣ Skills Skills let you capture how work gets done, the tone, the process, the exact steps and reuse it across your team. -> Built-in skills: Document creation, Meeting coordination, Research -> You can build custom skills to standardize your team's recurring processes. 3️⃣ Integrations Bring your own data and tools into Cowork. ▪️ Native: Fabric IQ with Power BI, Dynamics 365 across sales, customer service, and ERP ▪️ Coming soon: LSEG, Miro, monday.com, S&P Global Energy ▪️ Custom plugins to connect your own systems Cowork is available in the Frontier program, with capabilities rolling out continuously. Microsoft's official blog to learn more - #M365Copilot #Copilot #AI #Microsoft #EnterpriseAI