{"id":131645,"date":"2025-11-10T05:46:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T05:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/131645\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T05:46:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T05:46:09","slug":"microsoft-teases-agents-that-become-independent-users-the-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/131645\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft teases agents that become \u2018independent users’ \u2022 The Register"},"content":{"rendered":"

Microsoft has teased what it\u2019s calling \u201ca new class\u201d of AI agents \u201cthat operate as independent users within the enterprise workforce.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEach embodied agent has its own identity, dedicated access to organizational systems and applications, and the ability to collaborate with humans and other agents,\u201d states a Microsoft product roadmap document<\/a>. \u201cThese agents can attend meetings, edit documents, communicate via email and chat, and perform tasks autonomously.\u201d<\/p>\n

Redmond will sell these \u201cagentic users\u201d in the \u201cM365 Agent Store\u201d and make them discoverable in its Teams collaborationware tools.<\/p>\n

Microsoft licensing specialist Rich Gibbons says<\/a> he\u2019s seen additional documentation provided to M365 admins that mentions a license called \u201cA365\u201d \u2013 he thinks that\u2019s a reference to a product called \u201cAgent 365\u201d \u2013 and which states that \u201cAdmins assign the required A365 license at the time of approval. No additional Microsoft 365 or Teams license is required.\u201d<\/p>\n

A Microsoft MVP named Jo\u00e3o Ferreira appears to have seen the same document, and also mentioned<\/a> the A365 license and shared a screenshot of an Agent 365 management page.<\/p>\n

Ferreira says agents will have their own email address, Teams account, an entry in enterprise directories (either Entra ID or Azure AD), and even a place on the org chart.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey can participate in meetings, send and receive emails and chats, access enterprise data, and learn from interactions to improve over time,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

Microsoft\u2019s documents suggest the agents will debut later in November. As the software giant\u2019s annual \u201cIgnite\u201d conference kicks off next week, The Register fancies they may be one of the things Microsoft announces at the event. Ferreira said Microsoft will stage a \u201ctargeted release\u201d of A365.<\/p>\n

Whenever it announces this offering, Redmond will doubtless make breathlessly optimistic pronouncements about their ability to improve productivity and profitability.<\/p>\n

Gibbons has looked past that and tried to guess what they\u2019ll cost to run.<\/p>\n

\u201cMicrosoft recently launched the Copilot Credit Pre-Purchase Plan (P3),\u201d he wrote, noting that its base tier offers customers the chance to buy 300,000 credits. He says the software behemoth is \u201cmoving more and more to a consumption based pricing model, which is inherently much harder to forecast for customer organisations. Here, where we\u2019re going to have AI agents doings things off their own back \u2013 how are you supposed to predict usage\/consumption in those scenarios?!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAs well as the licensing and cost concerns, I am also wondering how an organization manages these agents,\u201d he added. \u201cIf they can join meeting and send emails\/messages to people \u2013 what happens if they go rogue? It could be sending sensitive data to the wrong people, providing incorrect information, or it could be sending strange or offensive messages\u2026how is that to be prevented, monitored, and acted upon?\u201d<\/p>\n

How, indeed. \u00ae<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Microsoft has teased what it\u2019s calling \u201ca new class\u201d of AI agents \u201cthat operate as independent users within…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,61,60,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-131645","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}