--- title: Microsoft kills off unsuccessful AI features while... description: Microsoft is merging its consumer-facing Copilot app with the business-oriented Microsoft 365 Copilot app into a single, more cohesive product. As part of this... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/microsoft-kills-off-unsuccessful-ai-features-while-merging-its-separate-copilot-apps-fwqxyxo5j twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Microsoft kills off unsuccessful AI features while merging its separate Copilot apps | daily.dev og:description: Microsoft is merging its consumer-facing Copilot app with the business-oriented Microsoft 365 Copilot app into a single, more cohesive product. As part of this... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/microsoft-kills-off-unsuccessful-ai-features-while-merging-its-separate-copilot-apps-fwqxyxo5j og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/fwQxyXo5j.png og:image:alt: Microsoft kills off unsuccessful AI features while merging its separate Copilot apps og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Microsoft kills off unsuccessful AI features while merging its separate Copilot apps **[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Microsoft is merging its consumer-facing Copilot app with the business-oriented Microsoft 365 Copilot app into a single, more cohesive product. As part of this consolidation, several underperforming features are being retired by August 18, 2026, including Group Chats, AI-generated podcasts, Copilot Labs experimental features, Deep Research (replaced by Researcher for paying professional users), and the Mico animated character. Files from the standalone Copilot app will migrate to OneDrive, and some features may temporarily disappear during the transition. The move mirrors similar consolidation trends at Anthropic (merging Cowork into Chat), OpenAI (merging Operator into ChatGPT), and Google (adding deep research and browsing to Gemini). An internal memo reportedly said Copilot needed to 'earn the right to exist' by dropping features that didn't work. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What Copilot features is Microsoft removing and when? Microsoft is retiring Group Chats, AI-generated podcasts, Copilot Labs experimental features, and Deep Research from the consumer Copilot app by August 18, 2026. It is also removing the Mico animated character. Paying Microsoft 365 Copilot professional users get Researcher as a replacement for Deep Research, and files from the standalone app will migrate to OneDrive. _Track how Copilot's feature set shifts by following AI tool changes on daily.dev._ ### Why is Microsoft merging the consumer Copilot app with Microsoft 365 Copilot? Microsoft is combining the two apps because personal and professional AI use cases increasingly overlap, and because running two separate Copilot products made it hard to compete with ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. Microsoft EVP Jacob Andreou reportedly told staff internally that Copilot needed to earn the right to exist by cutting features that weren't working. _Developers evaluating AI assistant platforms can watch this consolidation trend unfold on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Microsoft is merging its Copilots into one AI super app](https://daily.dev/posts/microsoft-is-merging-its-copilots-into-one-ai-super-app-f2ckdhaiq) · The Next Web · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Microsoft’s Office apps are getting even more free AI features](https://daily.dev/posts/microsoft-s-office-apps-are-getting-even-more-free-ai-features-cokrcxy1c) · The Verge · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Microsoft is purging Copilot from parts of Windows 11 — but its still coming to the taskbar](https://daily.dev/posts/microsoft-is-purging-copilot-from-parts-of-windows-11-but-its-still-coming-to-the-taskbar-ajygqkiky) · XDA Developers · 1 upvotes · 1 comments --- Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#chatgpt](https://daily.dev/tags/chatgpt), [#product-management](https://daily.dev/tags/product-management), [#microsoft-copilot](https://daily.dev/tags/microsoft-copilot) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/microsoft-kills-off-unsuccessful-ai-features-while-merging-its-separate-copilot-apps-fwqxyxo5j) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Microsoft kills off unsuccessful AI features while merging its separate Copilot apps","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/microsoft-kills-off-unsuccessful-ai-features-while-merging-its-separate-copilot-apps-fwqxyxo5j","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/microsoft-kills-off-unsuccessful-ai-features-while-merging-its-separate-copilot-apps-fwqxyxo5j"},"datePublished":"2026-08-13T15:33:13.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T04:16:43.476Z","description":"Microsoft is merging its consumer-facing Copilot app with the business-oriented Microsoft 365 Copilot app into a single, more cohesive product. 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