Copilot has been promising to change how you work. Cowork is where it starts to deliver on that.

The idea: you describe what needs to happen, and Copilot Cowork builds a plan and executes it across your Microsoft 365 apps. Calendar cleanup, meeting packets, company research - not one prompt, but the full chain of steps, running while you do something else.

Twenty-five - thirty minutes is enough to see how Work IQ gives Copilot the context to act on your behalf, what plugins and skills look like in practice, and whether this is real or still mostly polished demos.

Bring your skepticism. It's a fair starting point.