Microsoft’s Copilot Enters Its ‘Second Chapter’ With Autonomous Task Execution

Microsoft is pushing Copilot past conversation and into execution.The company has introduced Copilot Tasks, an agent-like system designed to carry out assignments rather than simply respond to prompts. According to the Copilot team, the feature runs in the background using its own browser to plan, coordinate across apps, and complete actions on a user’s behalf as part of a limited research preview.The second chapter beginsCopilot Tasks is presented as the start of a new phase for Microsoft