📰 AI News: Anthropic Drops Claude Cowork for Windows, Not Just Mac
📝 TL;DR Anthropic just released Cowork as a research preview, and it is basically “Claude Code,” but for everything that is not coding. It can work directly in your folders, create and organize files, and take multi step tasks off your plate while you supervise, now on both Mac and Windows. 🧠 Overview Cowork is Anthropic’s new desktop agent experience designed for real work, not just chat. Instead of pasting text into a prompt, you point it at a folder and it can read, organize, and create files right where your work lives. This is a clear shift from “AI gives you answers” to “AI does the workflow,” and it is now expanding beyond macOS to Windows as well, which makes it far more relevant for most teams. 📜 The Announcement Cowork is available as a research preview inside the Claude desktop app for Claude Max subscribers. Anthropic says it built Cowork after seeing people use Claude Code for far more than programming and wanted a simpler way for non developers to get that same agent style workflow. Originally highlighted for macOS, Cowork now works on Windows too, meaning more businesses can test it in real world ops environments, not just creative and developer heavy Mac setups. Anthropic also flags that Cowork is agentic and can use the internet, which raises the need for user oversight and clear permissions. ⚙️ How It Works • Work in a folder - You choose a directory, and Cowork can read, organize, and create files in that environment instead of living only in a chat window. • Agent workflow - It can propose a plan, execute steps, and report progress, which makes it feel more like a colleague doing tasks than a bot answering questions. • File creation and organizing - Think sorting downloads, cleaning up messy project folders, drafting docs from scattered notes, or turning rough inputs into structured outputs. • Multi step outputs - It is designed for workflows that take many steps, like building a report plus spreadsheet plus summary instead of just one response.