Thursday, August 13th 2026
Microsoft Unifies Copilot Features Into a Super App
Microsoft is finally scaling back on creating numerous Copilot variants for every use case and is instead consolidating many Copilot buttons, icons, and functions into the main Copilot app. According to the latest support document update, Microsoft is rolling out a unified Copilot experience to create a Copilot "super application," bringing all the functionality that was previously spread across the operating system under one roof. These features include Deep Research, Group Chat, and Podcasts. The Deep Research functionality is being retired for consumers, but existing content will remain available. The same applies to Podcasts and Group Chat, which will be fully retired starting August 18.
Microsoft notes that the updated Copilot application is introducing a fresh look, with the ability to access Word, Excel, Outlook, and many other Microsoft 365 services and apps directly from the Copilot super app. Users who were using Copilot functionality across the operating system that is being retired will now find everything under one roof, with chat history and the majority of content being moved to the new home. The migration will include chats, images, and any type of content that has been created with Copilot.
If you've ever wondered how many Copilot applications exist, the official count stands at 80 Copilot applications, products, services, and hardware that the Redmond giant has developed. Across every Microsoft vertical, there is a Copilot icon in some form, even present on Copilot+ PCs with its own dedicated Copilot key. However, this initiative serves to consolidate most Copilot functions and features under a single roof, simplifying usage so users can rely on a single app to accomplish tasks instead of being overwhelmed with features across the Windows 11 operating system.
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Microsoft notes that the updated Copilot application is introducing a fresh look, with the ability to access Word, Excel, Outlook, and many other Microsoft 365 services and apps directly from the Copilot super app. Users who were using Copilot functionality across the operating system that is being retired will now find everything under one roof, with chat history and the majority of content being moved to the new home. The migration will include chats, images, and any type of content that has been created with Copilot.
28 Comments on Microsoft Unifies Copilot Features Into a Super App
Less slop to remove.
Regards,
Fred.
And it's one of those "use cases" that is legitimately chilling to me. These people has no concept of humanity. They have no concept of self. They have no concept of emotions. And if you think this sounds like a good idea, you are deviod of humanity and should maybe be treated as the machine you want to be: deprecated, defunct, meaningless.
Having something that can help maintain your agenda's isn't a bad thing.
Here it's not that odd you will be put on a waiting list to see a medical specialist.
it's not a bad thing an AI helps manage some stuff.
Past puberty it's not that unlikely the kid prefers the parents not being around during games and it's probably not that bad an idea to be informed what your young child is up to online.
AI is a tool you can use to give some privacy but stay informed, not an alternative to parenting.
Just like AI is a tool you use when coding, not the thing that does all of it and generates a ball of unmaintainable garbage that wasted 5 cows worth of water and 0.1C in global temperature rise due to emissions.
@Topic: Well, guess makes it easier to debloat now.
Though it would be even better if there was an option to not have any of the Copilot junk at all when installing Windows.
Btw, I know that MS lost the plot, but... In one sentence "Deep research is being moved" and in next it is being retired? Whaat?
And keep kids of the internet it's no place for them even more so unsupervised.it will just remove the icon lmao.
A bad parent asking the AI will get an answer.
Its like cancer
I mean it's badly infected with all kinds of malware.
with a 0.1% of big brand endorsement
with 0.15% of continuous parallel bible references
with a 0.07% do not offend USA
and with a -0.18% pro-china discourse
Just enough to make you child grow tall, strong, catholic, patriot and antichinese.
Podcasts is an OAI feature and I understand its retirement being related to their broken agreement. Deep Research is going but Researcher stays, which might use Anthropic's models, but not available to any paid tier except Premium and Enterprise VL (again, token usage). Group Chats, idk. But this is fun considering the media's reaction to their closing of the last quarter. :laugh: It was all "positive outlook" for the medium-term, so why all the offer cutting?
Essentially, by eliminating what I've understood to be the various entry points for prompts while you pay a flat fee for the service, they are now reducing the attack surface (i.e. their exposure to your relentless spending of tokens) to control their losses to OAI and to a degree, Anthropic (you can now pick ChatGPT or Claude).