You might have heard of “vibe coding.” Microsoft hopes “vibe working” will catch on next.
Much as non-developers can describe what types of programs to build, and let AI do the coding, Microsoft is bringing the concept to documents, spreadsheets and presentations with new features for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
The company describes “vibe working” as collaboration between people and AI agents inside its productivity apps. Instead of giving a one-time response, the updated Copilot AI tools generate, test, and refine content while users steer the direction, more like a dialogue.
Here’s what the company announced Monday morning:
- Agent Mode in Word and Excel: Adds the ability for Copilot to perform multi-step tasks within the apps, such as updating reports in Word or analyzing data and creating charts in Excel. Microsoft says PowerPoint support is coming in the future.
- Office Agent in Copilot chat: A chat-based tool to produce PowerPoint presentations or Word documents, starting from a simple prompt and refining the results through follow-up questions.
Microsoft says Office Agent in Copilot runs on AI models from Anthropic, maker of the Claude AI chatbot. That’s part of a broader move by Microsoft to expand beyond models from its partner OpenAI.
The company is racing to add Ai features against Google, which is steadily adding generative AI to its Workspace apps, along with Apple, OpenAI, Anthropic, Canva, Notion, and many others developing agent-style AI systems for business, productivity, and design applications.
Microsoft 365 Commercial products and cloud services, which include the Office apps and Copilot for businesses, generated $87.8 billion in revenue in the 2025 fiscal year, ending in June, up 14% and second only to the company’s server products and cloud services business.
The new features are rolling out in preview. Agent Mode is in Word and Excel on the web Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft 365 Personal or Family users, through Microsoft’s Frontier program. Desktop versions and PowerPoint support will be released later. Office Agent is initially limited to U.S. users of Microsoft 365 Personal and Family plans, also through the Frontier program.
