Copilot Cowork Under the Hood: Frontier, Work IQ, and the OneDrive Skills Model

On March 9, 2026, Microsoft introduced Copilot Cowork as the move from “Copilot can answer” to “Copilot can carry work forward.” On March 30, 2026, Microsoft said Cowork was available through the Frontier program. As of the Microsoft Learn and Support documentation updated in late March and early April 2026, Cowork is still explicitly documented as a preview/prerelease capability, gated through Frontier and still evolving. S1 S2 S3 S5 S8 That date sequence matters, because Cowork is not just another prompt box. It is Microsoft 365 Copilot’s first serious “plan to action” surface for long-running work: you describe an outcome, Cowork turns it into a plan, grounds it in your tenant context, loads skills, asks for approvals on sensitive steps, and keeps state in a visible task view while it works. S1 S2 S4 S8 S10 ...

April 8, 2026 · 23 min · 4754 words · Pavel Nasovich

Azure AI Foundry: Building Multi-Agent Systems Without Losing Your Mind (Much)

Hey folks! So, picture this: it’s 3 AM, I’m staring at my fourth attempt to orchestrate multiple AI agents, and my code looks like someone tried to solve the traveling salesman problem with spaghetti. The agents are talking to each other… sometimes. When they feel like it. When Mercury is in retrograde. And then Microsoft drops Azure AI Foundry and promises it’ll solve all my multi-agent orchestration problems. The Problem With Building AI Agents (Or: Why I Started Drinking More Coffee) Let me paint you a picture. You want to build an AI system that actually does something useful. Not just a chatbot that tells you the weather - we’ve all built that demo. I’m talking about real work. Multiple agents, each doing their specialized thing, talking to each other, handling errors, not hallucinating too much. ...

August 27, 2025 · 7 min · 1365 words · Pavel Nasovich