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agosto 14, 2026
Microsoft’s Copilot Super App Cleans House on Its Way to Simplicity
Microsoft is folding its consumer and workplace Copilot products into one app, while retiring a slate of features that failed to stick. The company promises a cleaner experience, but the overhaul also underscores how far its AI strategy has had to reset.
Microsoft is betting that one Copilot can do what two could not: make its AI assistant feel indispensable. The price of that simplification is a conspicuous cleanup of experiments, avatars and tools now headed for the exit.
Two years after casting AI as a “generational shift” it intended to lead, Microsoft is consolidating its consumer Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot products—a move that reflects how thoroughly personal and professional AI use now overlap, and how confusing the split had become.1 The company’s own internal urgency was blunt: Copilot needed to earn “the right to exist” in customers’ lives, according to an internal memo reported in July.1
The merger begins with mobile and web rollouts in mid-August, followed by Windows and Mac in mid-September. Users who have both apps will see their chats and content brought into one updated Microsoft Copilot interface, though work and personal accounts—and their data—will remain separate. Microsoft says enterprise security, compliance and government controls are unchanged.2
But the new app is also a pruning exercise. Group Chats, AI-generated podcasts, Copilot Labs experiments and Deep Research are due to disappear by August 18, 2026; professional subscribers will have Researcher as a replacement for Deep Research. Shopping and Copilot Health may also vanish temporarily during the transition.1
Mico, the animated yellow voice-mode blob introduced last October to give Copilot an “identity,” is another casualty. Microsoft is shifting it to Learn Live, arguing that the character will have “more to react to” there. The company says Mico “helped us learn about warmth, expressiveness, and how people want to talk with AI”—a diplomatic farewell that places it alongside retired Microsoft helpers such as Clippy and Cortana.3
Microsoft presents the redesign as the foundation for a larger “super app” planned later this year. Its critics’ reading is harsher: the company is finally cutting loose features that made Copilot feel less like a unified assistant than a crowded AI laboratory.