Microsoft launches E7, which bundles Office tools and Copilot, for $99/user/month, a 65% jump; of its 450M+ business users in January, ~3% also paid for Copilot

Microsoft Corp. is launching a new bundle of workplace software with the aim of getting more people to use its artificial intelligence tools for the office.

Bloomberg 2026-03-09 Brody Ford

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@zackkorman Zack Korman on x
Let the data exfiltration games begin.
@marlene_zw Marlene Mhangami on x
Quote from the release blog “Working closely with Anthropic, we have integrated the technology behind Claude Cowork into Microsoft 365 Copilot. It is this multi-model advantage that makes Copilot different. Your work is not limited by one brand of models.” Choice is the moat!
@akoustov Alexander Kustov on x
“Copilot Cowork” is a strange name for what is essentially... a copilot. Cool that Microsoft is getting there, but this is what the product should have been from the very start.
@yacinelearning Yacine Mahdid on x
my mental model for frontier ai is that we all are working on different colour variation of the same base model and the same base product
@metacriticcap @metacriticcap on x
Copilot Cowork! What a great brand!
@tunguz Bojan Tunguz on x
Finally. I haven't tried it yet, so don't know how good it is. It's crazy that it took them this long to get to this point. They really should have been leading with the AI integration in the work suite and the OS.
@jshpigler Jonathan Shpigler on x
“**Working closely with Anthropic**, we have integrated the technology behind Claude Cowork into Microsoft 365 Copilot. It is this multi-model advantage that makes Copilot different. Your work is not limited by one brand of models”
@satyanadella Satya Nadella on x
Announcing Copilot Cowork, a new way to complete tasks and get work done in M365. When you hand off a task to Cowork, it turns your request into a plan and executes it across your apps and files, grounded in your work data and operating within M365's security and governance [vide…
@mgsiegler.com M.G. Siegler on bluesky
If you can't beat em, cobrand em. [embedded post]
@tomwarren.co.uk Tom Warren on bluesky
Microsoft has worked with Anthropic to integrate the technology behind Claude Cowork into Microsoft 365 Copilot. The new Copilot Cowork feature is now in Research Preview, and will be available more broadly later this month www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros...
@matt_slotnick Matt Slotnick on x
honestly this is bullish for MSFT. to date incumbents have been defensive about how much value the models themselves drive, and as a result want to build layers of their own scaffolding to feel valuable. similar to salesforce's slack bot. but you can just let claude be claude

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Microsoft launches E7, which bundles Office tools and Copilot, for $99/user/month, a 65% jump; of its 450M+ business users in January, ~3% also paid for Copilot

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