Copilot Credits go default-on: your 2 November checklist
From 2 November 2026, new Microsoft 365 Copilot Business licences bought through CSP arrive with usage-based billing switched on, an Azure subscription attached, and Copilot Credits metering Cowork, the Work IQ APIs and GitHub Copilot Harness. Five settings in the Microsoft 365 admin center decide whether that becomes a budget line or a surprise invoice, and the defaults are not the ones a finance team would pick.
GPT-6 Astra in Copilot, GitHub and Foundry: the admin map
GPT-6 Astra reached Microsoft tenants through four doors in 48 hours: Foundry, Copilot Cowork, Copilot Studio and GitHub Copilot, two of them on by default. Each door has a different operator, data path, meter and off switch, from OpenAI running as a Microsoft subprocessor inside the EU Data Boundary to GitHub billing at list price. Here is the map and the admin checklist for a Swedish tenant.
Copilot Cowork is GA: a rollout and cost-control playbook
Microsoft made Copilot Cowork generally available worldwide on 16 June 2026, giving every Microsoft 365 Copilot tenant an agentic system that plans and delivers multi-step work, billed through Copilot Credits at 0.01 dollars each with no usage bundled into the license. Swedish IT teams now need spending limits, a DPIA update for the Anthropic-by-default model lineup, and a clear answer on when Cowork beats building a Foundry agent.