Microsoft now lets customers run agents on Windows 365 cloud PCs

Microsoft already uses Windows 365 for Agents for agents in its own products, including the Researcher agent for Copilot, a computer use feature in Copilot Studio, and Project Opal feature, a new agentic tool coming to Microsoft 365 Copilot.

For developers, Windows 365 for Agents enables the creation of “enterprise-ready agents that run on secure, policy-controlled cloud PCs,” said Stefan Kinnestrand, vice president of Windows Commercial marketing at Microsoft. “They don’t have to worry about the infrastructure layer, they can just focus on the agent themselves.”

Windows 365 for Agents shows promise as an approach to managing and securing agents, said Tom Mainelli, IDC group vice president, device and consumer research. “Running agents in Cloud PCs should improve security and control, although it will also add cost and complexity,” he said. “Adoption will likely start slowly until Microsoft shows it can make large-scale agent management practical.”

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