Microsoft 365 Agents Explained - Declarative, Copilot Studio, Pro-Code or Skills in Copilot Cowork?

Graham Hosking, Senior AI Solutions Engineer at Microsoft, discusses Copilot Skills, Cowork, and the rapidly evolving world of agentic AI across the Microsoft stack.

• How businesses are navigating AI adoption and why there is no silver bullet for enterprise AI

• What Copilot Cowork is and how it takes Microsoft 365 Copilot to the next level with multi-threaded task automation

• Skills as reusable blocks of instructions that simplify complex business processes like RFPs without needing multiple agents

• The spectrum from declarative agents to Copilot Studio to pro-code solutions on Azure Foundry

• MCP servers and plugins extending Cowork's reach to third-party systems like Salesforce

• Computer use arriving via Windows 365 plugins, unlocking automation for legacy systems without APIs

• Sovereign data considerations and Anthropic model availability across Europe

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