New Microsoft Copilot Training:
Home, Code
and Autopilot.
Bottom line: Microsoft announced Home, Code and Autopilot on 25 September 2026. This training is built around what's actually available now (not what will eventually ship). Two live online sessions: a Leadership Briefing and a Rollout Readiness Workshop. Both are priced from €1,820, alongside the full ladder of formats for standard Copilot training.
Search for this today and you mostly find Microsoft's own post repeating itself across a handful of tech outlets. No training offer existed for it yet. This one does.
What Microsoft announced on 25 September
On 25 September 2026, Microsoft announced 3 new surfaces for Copilot: Home, Code and Autopilot. Everything on this page comes from Microsoft's own blog post that day, checked against Techzine's report.
Why train on it now? Because the announcement changes what leadership needs to know and what IT needs to plan for. The products themselves aren't ready for a normal hands-on workshop yet (more on that below).
Home, Code and Autopilot, explained plainly
Is Cowork a separate, fourth Copilot product?
No. Cowork is a delegated-work mode reached from inside Home, not a fourth product or a fourth pricing tier. Per Techzine, Cowork creates its own plan and carries out tasks across Excel, Outlook, Teams and SharePoint. That covers delegated work such as an RFP response or a financial close.
01Home
Your new starting point. It brings Chat and Cowork together in one place, alongside Office in Copilot (Word, Excel and PowerPoint).
02Code
Describe an app, tracker, dashboard, automation or workflow in plain language, and Copilot builds it. It runs on the same underlying technology as GitHub Copilot, inside a sandbox in your own tenant.
03Autopilot
Microsoft calls it "your digital teammate": a persistent, proactive agent that keeps working when you're not active. It gets its own identity and workspace, and can be given a name, role and purpose. Microsoft's own announcement confirms it was previously called Scout.
What's available now, and what's still rolling out
Is the new Microsoft Copilot (Home, Code, Autopilot) available to use yet?
Not generally. As of 27 September 2026, Home and Code are, in Microsoft's own words, "rolling out in the Frontier program in the coming weeks." No fixed date is given. Autopilot is going to "private preview at the end of the month," meaning end of September 2026. Both are pre-GA, not a public release.
The billing side changes too. Chat and the Office apps (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) stay on the standard per-user subscription license. Cowork, Code and Autopilot, plus the frontier models Astra and Fable, move to usage-based billing through Copilot Credits.
Microsoft's announcement also includes FinOps for AI, a set of admin controls for that usage-based spend. Admins can set spending policies at scale, and choose which model families are available to which groups. People using Copilot can see their own credit usage, remaining balance and history.
None of that configures itself. Someone has to set those policies before Autopilot actually runs, and that's part of what the Rollout Readiness Workshop covers. Autopilot's proactive execution also raises governance questions (see the governance questions rollout raises for the EU AI Act angle).
Two ways to prepare
Should an organisation train staff on the new Copilot now, if it's still in preview?
Yes, at the readiness level, not the hands-on level. A leadership briefing on what changed, cost and governance makes sense today. A hands-on workshop for the general workforce makes more sense once Frontier access or general availability lands.
01New Copilot Briefing (90 minutes)
From €1,820. Leadership only, live online: what changed, likely cost, and what to ask before rollout.
02Rollout Readiness Workshop (2 hours)
From €1,820. Hands-on where Frontier or preview access already exists, planning-focused otherwise. Built for the IT or transformation lead running point on the rollout.
Both sessions sit alongside the wider European offer, the standard Copilot training ladder for organisations across Europe.
Who this is for
It's for an IT or digital transformation lead who needs to brief leadership on what just changed. It's also for a C-suite that wants the leadership-level version directly.
It doesn't repeat 2 other pages on this site. The general leadership briefing on Copilot covers Copilot broadly, for organisations that haven't had that conversation yet. The general adoption workshop is for organisations already rolling out standard Copilot and stuck on adoption. This page is specifically about the 25 September 2026 announcement, for organisations already on Copilot who want to know what just changed.
No commercial interest in Microsoft
I'm Eyal Marcus, AI consultant and trainer. 264 AI sessions in 112 organisations, including Intel, Amdocs, Sapiens, Rapyd, EY, Roche, JDC International and Mitrelli. That's general Copilot experience, not hands-on experience with a suite that's days old (nobody has that yet). None of it is tied to Home, Code or Autopilot specifically.
I have no commercial relationship with Microsoft. I don't get paid by Microsoft for this, and I'd say so if I did.
Frequently asked questions
What are Copilot Home, Code and Autopilot, and is Cowork a separate product?
Microsoft announced 3 new surfaces on 25 September 2026: Home, Code and Autopilot. Home is the new starting point, combining Chat and Cowork, plus Office in Copilot. Code is natural-language app and workflow building on GitHub Copilot's technology. Autopilot is a persistent, proactive agent. Cowork is the delegated-work mode reached from inside Home, not a fourth separate product.
Is the new Microsoft Copilot (Home, Code, Autopilot) available to use yet?
Not generally. As of the announcement, Home and Code are "rolling out in the Frontier program in the coming weeks." Autopilot is expanding to "private preview at the end of the month," meaning end of September 2026. This page is built around that reality: a leadership briefing and a readiness workshop, not hands-on training inside a feature most attendees can't open yet.
What is the difference between the New Copilot Briefing and the Rollout Readiness Workshop?
The Briefing is a 90-minute leadership session on what changed, cost and governance. The Workshop is a 2-hour session for the team running the rollout, hands-on where access already exists, planning-focused otherwise. Neither is a hands-on Autopilot workshop yet (Autopilot is still in private preview).
How is this different from the general Executive Briefing or Adoption Workshop?
Those two cover Copilot as it exists broadly today. This page is specifically about the 25 September 2026 announcement, and what it changes for an organisation already on Copilot.
Do you have a commercial relationship with Microsoft?
No. I have no commercial interest in Microsoft and no financial stake in recommending Copilot over any other tool.
When was this page last checked?
27 September 2026, 2 days after Microsoft's announcement, checked against Microsoft's own blog post and Techzine's independent report. These facts move fast, so this page is due a recheck within 2 to 4 weeks.
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