Who is building the agent operating system?
Twelve dimensions across seven providers. Re-graded as announcements land, with the market's reaction shown alongside.
Microsoft · Cross-App Actions
Real orchestration · updated 2026-06-01
Inside M365 it genuinely acts: drafting in Outlook, summarizing Teams, editing Office.
Can the assistant reach across apps and services to actually do things (book, send, schedule, edit) rather than describe how you'd do them? The difference between a chatbot and a control plane.
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