Microsoft Ships Copilot Cowork to General Availability

*Copilot Cowork now runs complete long workflows, connects to third-party plugins, and charges by actual usage.*

Microsoft announced general availability for Copilot Cowork on June 16. The release adds usage-based billing and removes earlier limits on workflow duration and external connections.

What ships today

The product can now execute long-running workflows from start to finish without manual restarts. It also supports deeper integration with popular third-party plugins. Pricing moves to a consumption model that bills only for the resources each workflow consumes.

Limited public detail

Microsoft’s own announcement post contains no further technical specifications or pricing tables. The Neowin report repeats the same three capabilities—long workflows, plugin support, and usage billing—without additional numbers or timelines.

Reactions

No customer quotes or competitor commentary have appeared in the initial coverage. Microsoft has not disclosed how many users participated in the prior preview.

Why it matters

Teams that already rely on Copilot for short tasks can now hand off longer processes without switching tools or paying fixed seats for occasional heavy use. The shift to usage billing lowers the barrier for smaller teams while exposing larger deployments to variable costs that will need monitoring. Until Microsoft publishes concrete metrics on latency, plugin certification, and billing examples, the practical impact remains difficult to quantify.

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Sources:

• Neowin
• Microsoft Source

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