Opening: “The AI Agent That Runs Your Power App”Most people still think Copilot writes emails and hallucinates budget summaries. Wrong. The latest update gives it opposable thumbs. Copilot Studio can now physically use your computer—clicking, typing, dragging, and opening apps like a suspiciously obedient intern. Yes, Microsoft finally taught the cloud to reach through the monitor and press buttons for you.And that’s not hyperbole. The feature is literally called “Computer Use.” It lets a Copilot agent act inside a real Windows session, not a simulated one. No more hiding behind connectors and APIs; this is direct contact with your desktop. It can launch your Power App, fill fields, and even submit forms—all autonomously. Once you stop panicking, you’ll realize what that means: automation that transcends the cloud sandbox and touches your real-world workflows.Why does this matter? Because businesses run on a tangled web of “almost integrated” systems. APIs don’t always exist. Legacy UIs don’t expose logic. Computer Use moves the AI from talking about work to doing the work—literally moving the cursor across the screen. It’s slow. It’s occasionally clumsy. But it’s historic. For the first time, Office AI interacts with software the way humans do—with eyes, fingers, and stubborn determination.Here’s what we’ll cover: setting it up without accidental combustion, watching the AI fumble through real navigation, dissecting how the reasoning engine behaves, then tackling the awkward reality of governance. By the end, you’ll either fear for your job or upgrade your job title to “AI wrangler.” Both are progress.Section 1: What “Computer Use” Really MeansLet’s clarify what this actually is before you overestimate it. “Computer Use” inside Copilot Studio is a new action that lets your agent operate a physical or virtual Windows machine through synthetic mouse and keyboard input. Imagine an intern staring at the screen, recognizing the Start menu, moving the pointer, and typing commands—but powered by a large language model that interprets each pixel in real time. That’s not a metaphor. It literally parses the interface using computer vision and decides its next move based on reasoning, not scripts.Compare that to a Power Automate flow or an API call. Those interact through defined connectors; predictable, controlled, and invisible. This feature abandons that polite formality. Instead, your AI actually “looks” at the UI like a user. It can misclick, pause to think, and recover from errors. Every run is different because the model reinterprets the visual state freshly each time. That unpredictability isn’t a bug—it’s adaptive problem solving. You said “open Power Apps and send an invite,” and it figures out which onscreen element accomplishes that, even if the layout changes.Microsoft calls this agentic AI—an autonomous reasoning agent capable of acting independently within a digital environment. It’s the same class of system that will soon drive cross-platform orchestration in Fabric or manage data flows autonomously. The shift is profound: instead of you guiding automation logic, you set intent, and the agent improvises the method.The beauty, of course, is backward compatibility with human nonsense. Legacy desktop apps, outdated intranet portals, anything unintegrated—all suddenly controllable again. The vision engine provides the bridge between modern AI language models and the messy GUIs of corporate history.But let’s be honest: giving your AI mechanical control requires more than enthusiasm. It needs permission, environment binding, and rigorous setup. Think of it like teaching a toddler to use power tools—possible, but supervision is mandatory. Understanding how Computer Use works under the hood prepares you for why the configuration feels bureaucratic. Because it is. The next part covers exactly that setup pain in excruciating, necessary detail so the only thing your agent breaks is boredom, not production servers.Section 2:...