Cowork just dropped for Windows and Intel-based macOS with full feature parity. Here's everything you need — skills, plugins, MCPs, and why you may not need the terminal.
The Cowork vs Code distinction is useful and underappreciated. Most productivity coverage defaults to "use Claude Code with the terminal" but that assumes a developer context.
What I've found running both: Cowork is actually better for tasks involving file management, emails, and document work, exactly because it handles the UI friction that the terminal can't. The power user trap is optimizing for developer tools when the bottleneck is actually organizational overhead.
The plugins and MCPs section is where this gets interesting for teams. A PM integrating Linear + Notion MCPs into Cowork is a fundamentally different workflow than anything we had 18 months ago. That's the part I'd expand if you do a follow-up.
Spot on. Many people covering this don't experiment with the tools themselves and learn from engineers. And engineering voices learned Code months ago.
I do believe that people probably underutilize Claude Cowork. It is an extremely powerful tool, especially with such powerful models that Anthropic released.
This is an amazing guide. Really, anyone—not just PMs—can look at this and get something out of it.
The Cowork vs Code distinction is useful and underappreciated. Most productivity coverage defaults to "use Claude Code with the terminal" but that assumes a developer context.
What I've found running both: Cowork is actually better for tasks involving file management, emails, and document work, exactly because it handles the UI friction that the terminal can't. The power user trap is optimizing for developer tools when the bottleneck is actually organizational overhead.
The plugins and MCPs section is where this gets interesting for teams. A PM integrating Linear + Notion MCPs into Cowork is a fundamentally different workflow than anything we had 18 months ago. That's the part I'd expand if you do a follow-up.
Spot on. Many people covering this don't experiment with the tools themselves and learn from engineers. And engineering voices learned Code months ago.
Such a helpful overview. Thank you!
Thanks, Tom!
I do believe that people probably underutilize Claude Cowork. It is an extremely powerful tool, especially with such powerful models that Anthropic released.
This is an amazing guide. Really, anyone—not just PMs—can look at this and get something out of it.
Appreciate that Ilia. Cowork is powerful and genuinely useful beyond PM. I focus on the PM perspective on purpose.