The New Stack reports that Microsoft shipped Scout, an always-on work agent, on the open-source OpenClaw runtime, while contributing enterprise policy-conformance controls upstream and keeping paid value in identity, governance, Microsoft 365 context, Windows containment, and silicon layers.
Microsoft just made the agent runtime free — and kept everything around it
The New Stack reports that Microsoft shipped Scout, an always-on work agent, on the open-source OpenClaw runtime, while contributing enterprise policy-conformance controls upstream and keeping paid value in identity, governance, Microsoft 365 context, Windows containment, and silicon layers.
Source: The New Stack