Technology and Science13 August, 20263 min read
Microsoft Merges Consumer Copilot And Microsoft 365 Copilot, Removes Mascot Mico
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Copilot consumer and enterprise apps are being merged into one unified Copilot experience. Rollout begins with a subset of users, paving Super App with chat, coding, autonomous features.
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Copilot unification begins
Microsoft is merging its consumer Copilot app and the business-focused Microsoft 365 Copilot app into a single application, and it is removing the animated Copilot mascot Mico as part of Copilot updates rolling out throughout August.
“Microsoft will merge both the consumer Copilot app and the business-oriented Microsoft 365 Copilot app into a single application.”
Mashable says Microsoft will no longer exist as separate apps for consumer and business use, and that Mico will be removed from Copilot while Microsoft says Mico will have a new home on Learn Live as a tutor for users.
GeekWire reports the unification is detailed in Microsoft support documents and will take place gradually over the next several weeks, with changes starting for some users and a broader rollout planned for mid-August and mid-September.
Microsoft support documents cited by GeekWire say several features of the consumer app are going away starting on Aug. 18, including Copilot Podcasts, Group Chat and Deep Research, and that Mico is disappearing from Copilot as well.
The TechCrunch report adds that Microsoft will combine the functionality of its consumer-facing Copilot app and the more business-oriented Microsoft 365 Copilot app, framing the move as an acknowledgement that personal and professional uses of AI often overlap.
Features retired, files migrate
Microsoft is retiring Copilot Group Chat, Podcasts, Deep Research, and experimental Copilot Labs features, and it says these four AI features will sunset on Aug. 18 with all related generated content removed.
Mashable reports that Group Chats let multiple users collaborate in a single Copilot AI chat, and that Deep Research was a feature Microsoft dubbed a personal research assistant for creating detailed reports.
TechCrunch says consumers will lose access to Group Chats, AI-generated podcasts in Copilot, Copilot Labs experimental features, and Deep Research, by August 18, 2026, and that Researcher will offer a replacement for paying professional users.
GeekWire adds that files shared with or generated by Copilot will move to OneDrive, where additional storage requires a paid plan, and that chat history and images created in the consumer app will migrate to the new one.
For the transition itself, TechCrunch notes Microsoft warns that other features may temporarily disappear and that files generated by the stand-alone Copilot app will be migrated to OneDrive.
Super App roadmap and stakes
Microsoft’s Copilot consolidation is being positioned as a step toward a broader “Super App” that will bring together Copilot’s chat, AI coding, Cowork and new AutoPilot agents into a single app, with Satya Nadella telling investors that the Super App will be out this quarter, meaning by the end of September. GeekWire says the initiative is an attempt to remake and unify Copilot under Jacob Andreou, the former Snap executive Nadella put in charge of the product in March, and it reports that Andreou detailed the move in a memo to his 11,000-person organization in early July. Fortune reports that the super app project is being headed by Jacob Andreou, and it says Nadella said Microsoft’s 365 Copilot service reached over 30 million paid seats in the company’s latest earnings report.
“Satya Nadella told investors on the company’s July 29 earnings call that the Super App will be out this quarter, meaning by the end of September.”
Mashable adds that a report from The Information late last year said Microsoft had significantly reduced AI-related sales targets as Copilot increasingly lost market share to AI tools from companies such as OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic. In the same broader push, Fortune says Microsoft is racing to release a super app in the coming months expected to feature chat, its GitHub Copilot coding assistant, the Copilot Cowork tool, and a new agentic workflow capability internally named Autopilot.