Microsoft introduces Scout personal assistant

Microsoft has introduced Scout, a personal assistant project that points to renewed competition in AI-powered workflow tools.

What happened

Scout is positioned around helping users with personal or work tasks through an assistant-style interface.

Why it matters

The assistant category is heating up again because the prize is huge: whoever owns the daily workflow layer could become the default place where people search, plan, write, code, and organise work.

This is not just about chatbots. It is about AI becoming a more active layer across apps and tasks.

The bigger picture

Big tech companies are racing to turn AI from a feature into an operating layer. Scout fits that trend.