And then there’s the OpenClaw bombshell:
Microsoft Autopilot is built on OpenClaw.
This strongly suggests something much bigger about Microsoft’s agent strategy:
Microsoft is just not that invested in its own agent runtime.
It actually wants to own the CONTROL PLANE around it.
So, this means OpenClaw become the open substrate. They help make it enterprise-grade. Then push policy, security, Windows integration and reliability upstream.
Then they can differentiate the combined iffeing as Autopilot, over time, with Entra identity, M365 context, Graph, Azure compute, governance, distribution, and (the key ti unlocking revenue) ultimately the meter.
It’s essentially the Linux/Azure playbook applied to agents:
Commoditize the layer underneath you, then become the best place to run it.
If OpenClaw becomes something like the “Linux of agents,” Microsoft doesn’t need a proprietary agent stack to win.
It needs to become the enterprise operating environment for ALL agents.
That is a much bigger, and in my opinion better, ambition than just Copilot.
Today Microsoft announced Autopilot, an always on agent built on OpenClaw
The best part of this collaboration is how much
@OmarShahine and others at Microsoft have contributed BACK to OpenClaw
Read all about the contributions Omar and his team made here:
openclaw.ai/blog/microsoft-a…