Microsoft Copilot Cowork lands on iOS and Android with Skills and plugins
Mobile rollout brings background task delegation to phones; Frontier customers get reusable Skills and a new plugin model.
Microsoft on Tuesday expanded Copilot Cowork to iOS and Android, alongside a new agent-first strategy for Microsoft 365 and an Agent 365 console for IT teams. The mobile launch is the operator-facing piece of a coordinated product week.
Cowork’s value proposition on mobile is task delegation in the background. Users delegate work from their phone — during commutes, between meetings, or away from the desk — and Cowork keeps execution running while they do something else. It comes back with a finished outcome rather than a chat thread.
The May 5 release also added reusable Cowork Skills for Frontier-program customers and a new plugin model that lets enterprise teams build agent skills once and reuse them across deployments. Cowork is built on Work IQ, Microsoft’s term for the intelligence layer that understands organizational data, tools, and systems — the planning-and-execution substrate that distinguishes Cowork from the chat-style Copilot.
Charles Lamanna, Microsoft’s corporate vice president for business applications and platforms, summarized the operating model: “once AI understands your work, it can start contributing to it and working alongside you.”
For platform-and-ML-infra teams at mid-market and enterprise shops, the practical question is what running Cowork on phones means for the device-management story. The Cowork connectors reach SharePoint, Outlook, Teams, OneDrive, Dynamics 365, and a growing set of third-party SaaS systems. Pushing that surface area out to a personal device is a different security model than pushing it to a managed workstation, and Microsoft has not yet detailed the enterprise controls Frontier customers will get for mobile-specific deployment.