{"id":983,"date":"2026-06-18T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/18\/charles-lamanna-is-moving-microsoft-copilot-beyond-chat-fastco\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T11:00:00","slug":"charles-lamanna-is-moving-microsoft-copilot-beyond-chat-fastco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/18\/charles-lamanna-is-moving-microsoft-copilot-beyond-chat-fastco\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Lamanna is moving Microsoft Copilot beyond chat (FastCo)<\/a>"},"content":{"rendered":"

With Copilot Cowork, he wants workers to delegate complex office tasks to AI agents that can use Excel, Outlook, and other Microsoft 365 tools.<\/p>\n

After seeing how coders have been delegating large parts of their jobs to AI<\/a>, Charles Lamanna wants office workers to start doing the same. Lamanna, Microsoft\u2019s executive VP of agents and business apps, heads Copilot Cowork, which lets workers hand off complex tasks to AI agents that hook into Microsoft\u2019s 365 suite. While it\u2019s 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 using context from Outlook.<\/p>\n

– https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/91550785\/charles-lamanna-is-moving-microsoft-copilot-beyond-chat?partner=rss&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss+fastcompany&utm_content=rss<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With Copilot Cowork, he wants workers to delegate complex office tasks to AI agents that can use Excel, Outlook, and other Microsoft 365 tools.<\/p>\n

After seeing how coders have been delegating large parts of their jobs to AI<\/a>, Charles Lamanna wants office workers to start doing the same. Lamanna, Microsoft\u2019s executive VP of agents and business apps, heads Copilot Cowork, which lets workers hand off complex tasks to AI agents that hook into Microsoft\u2019s 365 suite. While it\u2019s 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 using context from Outlook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feed","tag-published","h-entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}