Charles Lamanna is moving Microsoft Copilot beyond chat

After seeing how coders have been delegating large parts of their jobs to AI, Charles Lamanna wants office workers to start doing the same. Lamanna, Microsoft’s executive VP of agents and business apps, heads Copilot Cowork, which lets workers hand off complex tasks to AI agents that hook into Microsoft’s 365 suite. While it’s still in a limited research preview, Cowork allows them to do things like build competitive analyses from internal Excel spreadsheets or weed out scheduling conflicts usin...