Copilot Cowork now builds React apps connected to SharePoint, Dataverse or SQL that read and write data. What the App skill does, where those apps run, what admins control and what it costs to run them.
How to bring Power BI data into HTML and JavaScript with the Execute Queries API, why dedicated capacity rarely makes sense for small teams, and where AI really speeds up the project.
Copilot Cowork charges per credit on top of the Copilot license and, since September, shows the cost of every task. What it costs to delegate work to an agent, what drives the bill up, and what sits behind the study where Microsoft claims to be 30 to 40% cheaper than Claude Cowork.
Arena (formerly LMArena) ranks AI models using millions of anonymous human votes. How it works, why it became the industry's reference, and where the scoreboard misleads.
For years Copilot carried the reputation of a cheap ChatGPT knockoff. In 2026, while nobody was watching, it became something else: it stopped depending on a single model, learned to turn a spreadsheet into a clickable app inside PowerPoint, and gave its agents their own identity. The ugly duckling story, enterprise software edition.
