Microsoft has significantly enhanced its Microsoft 365 Copilot with the introduction of 'Agent Mode' and 'Office Agent'. This update transforms Copilot from a conversational assistant into a system capable of managing continuous, multi-step workflows across the entire Office suite, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams. Agent Mode allows users to create persistent agents that operate in the background to handle ongoing tasks like monitoring document updates or preparing meeting summaries without direct prompts. The new 'Office Agent' acts as a unifying layer, enabling Copilot to execute complex commands across different applications, such as pulling data from Excel to create a report in Word and a subsequent presentation in PowerPoint. This move is seen as a major step towards making AI a true orchestration system for workplace productivity, shifting from simple text generation to automating complex, sustained tasks.