Microsoft launches Microsoft Scout, a personal AI assistant that integrates with Microsoft 365 apps and can monitor calendars and traffic to help with scheduling, email, and task management.

Microsoft is releasing a desktop preview version of Microsoft Scout to Frontier customers in the US this week, with a more limited preview available to a small number of customers in the coming months before a full cloud version rolls out more broadly.

Microsoft Scout can see and interact with Microsoft 365 apps including Outlook, OneDrive, and Microsoft Teams; it can monitor local road traffic and calendars to recommend departure times for appointments, and it learns from Teams threads, transcripts, and email in the background.

More than 3,000 Microsoft employees are already using the desktop app internally, leveraging it to schedule meetings, handle paperwork, book travel, and fill out forms.

Microsoft is contributing directly to the open-source OpenClaw project rather than creating a separate version, and uses security tools including Agent 365, Purview, and Defender to control OpenClaw access and prevent it from accessing Microsoft 365 data directly.