Satya Nadella Confirms Copilot “Super App” is Coming Soon

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella confirmed yesterday during the company’s FY26 Q4 earnings call that a new Copilot “super app” is on the way. After OpenAI recently merged its ChatGPT and Codex desktop apps and added a new “Work” mode to the mix, Nadella hinted that Microsoft is looking to consolidate its different Copilot experiences into a single app.

“Copilot is evolving rapidly from chat to Cowork to Autopilots,” Nadella said. “This quarter, we are bringing these Copilot experiences together, including code, in one super app… This is a major step forward, and I look forward to sharing more soon,” the exec said during the company’s earnings calls yesterday (via The Verge).

Microsoft currently has two separate Copilot apps, Microsoft Copilot for consumers and Microsoft 365 Copilot for both consumers and enterprise users. The latter used to be the all-in-one Office app, before it was rebranded to the Microsoft 365 app a couple of years ago.

In a way, Microsoft having two separate Copilot apps is reminiscent of the two separate Microsoft Teams apps on Windows. Windows 11 launched with a new Teams app for consumers, but Microsoft eventually merged it with its existing Teams app for enterprise users.

Greg Brockman, the president of OpenAI, admitted in a recent interview with Joanna Stern that the new ChatGPT “super app” was “kind of a mess.” It was indeed really confusing for desktop users who just wanted to keep the familiar chat experience to see new Work and Codex tabs, with chat history being somewhat hidden away. OpenAI later updated the app to add separate Work and Chat tabs at the top, with Codex now being accessible from a drop-down menu in the app’s left panel.

Microsoft has redesigned its two Copilot apps so many times in recent years that I’m not sure if the company can do better than OpenAI with its Copilot “super app” in terms of design. However, I’d be happy to be proven wrong.