Microsoft began merging its consumer and business Copilot apps, with Nadella promising the "super app" by end of September.

The merge started this week as the structural precondition, bringing chat, AI coding, the Cowork research tool and new AutoPilot background agents acting across Outlook, Teams and OneDrive into one product. The rollout also retired free Deep Research within four days, which reads as cost discipline rather than product strategy. GeekWire The effort sits under Jacob Andreou, the ex-Snap executive Nadella installed in March, against weak paid Copilot adoption.