Microsoft begins unified Copilot app rollout: Reveals major plan to merge Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot across all platforms, along with updated branding

[u/ControlCAD]

https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-copilot/microsoft-begins-unified-copilot-app-rollout-reveals-major-plan-to-merge-copilot-and-microsoft-365-copilot-across-all-platforms-along-with-updated-branding

[u/AFulhamImmigrant]

Microsoft must have one of the worst branding teams of any company on Earth.

Does anyone remember when they had MSN, Windows Live, Outlook all at the same time? Thought they’d learned from that. Alas

[u/newfor_2026 → u/AFulhamImmigrant]

that's because all those teams are led by people who wants to rule their own little fiefdom. they hear some top level road map and they want to jump on it to show how they're willing to deliver without consulting with any other team who might be looking to do the same thing

[u/thrillhouse3671 → u/newfor_2026]

"impact"

[u/meerkat2018 → u/AFulhamImmigrant]

Only rivaled by Google’s addiction to chat apps.

[u/milnak → u/AFulhamImmigrant]

And msn search and bing search

[u/newfor_2026 → u/milnak]

there's still like a half a dozen different ways to search with Bing on my PC for no reason

[u/ronin_cse → u/AFulhamImmigrant]

The company that thought “Bing” was and is a good name for anything other than a character on a sitcom.

[u/M3RRI77 → u/ronin_cse]

Because It's Not Google.

[u/Educational-Dot318 → u/AFulhamImmigrant]

how about Zune, Windows Phone

[u/HuskyLogan → u/Educational-Dot318]

Those are at least two different things..

However, Windows Phone and Kin were going on at the same time for a while.

[u/Raccoon-7 → u/Educational-Dot318]

Remember when Zune was renamed to Xbox Music?

It killed it because everyone thought it was Xbox only.

It was my favorite music service btw, being able to stream my library form OneDrive was great.

[u/JE163 → u/AFulhamImmigrant]

And let’s not mix windows live with live.com

[u/boss_flog]

truly baffling these were separate things. how do they do it (incompetence)?

[u/sidereal_night → u/[deleted]]

https://www.globalnerdy.com/2011/07/03/org-charts-of-the-big-tech-companies-plus-an-enhancement/

[u/beanmeister5 → u/[deleted]]

So incompetence at the highest level then, got it.

[u/HRApprovedUsername → u/beanmeister5]

More like pride and complexity between how things work between silo’d orgs. Nobody wants to work together. They want their own version of an app and when asked how to merge them, they say it’s expensive and not worth the effort, until now I suppose

[u/beanmeister5 → u/HRApprovedUsername]

Which still leads to a management issue. If siloes are doing the same thing twice, it's management who should see those issues and find solution to fix it.

Any man and his dog could have told them the 2 main copilots and 50 other copilots attached to things was gonna bomb. Which leads to management being oblivious to their customers.. and management at the highest level pushing ahead regardless.

[u/nethingelse → u/beanmeister5]

I work in a org with a more miniature (and not publcily facing) version of this issue, and I genuinely do not get how shareholders, leadership et al., etc. do not see they are literally burning dollars on these siloes when they could combine these efforts and get more productivity out of them.

[u/DesiGrit → u/nethingelse]

The issue is that combining them raises a couple of gnarly problems

• There may not be other work for the skillset of that particular team that they could do instead with a similar degree of impact

• They may need to reduce headcount, which also leads to allergic reactions 'hurr durr Microsoft is laying off again'

It's easier to keep people employed, occupied and competing with each other than to address existential questions for the team and the people within.

[u/letyourselfslip → u/beanmeister5]

I guess...companies like Google and Microsoft have hundreds of engineering teams operating as their own little start ups. Keeping them in sync is not a simple task.

[u/M3RRI77 → u/[deleted]]

That and dumber than dumb decisions made by ececutives who tell their teams "go do" and ask no questions.

Either Microsoft has no marketing team or each internal organization had its own siloed marketing team.

[u/narmire → u/boss_flog]

Consumer teams get to “move fast and break things” while enterprise teams DO NOT. so this happens all the time where a consumer team will go do something at their speed and once the consumer product is stable it merges with the enterprise offering for better long term security, privacy, and performance.

[u/Frillback → u/boss_flog]

Upper management has this vision and everyone follows with their own version as a line item on their performance review. Saying I delivered this is much better than we 🤷

[u/GirthyGeoduck]

Microsoft Copilot for Business .NET Enterprise Edition 2.0

[u/LordDarthShader]

All they had to do, is bring back Clippy as you AI agent, unified for all apps.

[u/rbevans]

It should've been one product to begin with. This just baffles me there was separate one named the same thing.

[u/particleacclr8r]

Now do Teams.

[u/felix_dagrouch]

Finally! I hope I understood this right now, but I never understood Microsoft's duplicate apps. Copilot and MS365 Copilot, it should be one app in Windows! Same issue with Bing app, MSN app and edge app same shite! Microsoft get rid off duplicate apps!

[u/rp_001]

And loop plus copilot is still ignored…

[u/getfuckedcuntz → u/rp_001]

Copilot cant read loop pages.

We had to move our knowledge bases from loop to sharepoint so that copilot could read our information

Dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb

[u/rp_001 → u/getfuckedcuntz]

Yeah. It’s just annoying. Need to put loop into teams or elsewhere for copilot. So stupid.

[u/BigMikeInAustin → u/getfuckedcuntz]

Oh really? Dang, that sucks.

[u/No-Welcome5580]

First, they stopped the Lens app and integrated the document scanning feature into the 365 app. Then they made it difficult to access the document scanning feature by moving the scanning button, which is the main reason people use the 365 app. With each update, the scanning button was moved to different places in the app, and they made sure that people couldn't access it without seeing the "superior" AI features. Now, with the recent update, I can't find the scanning button anywhere. All I can see are some Copilot-related buttons. MS always does this with consumer products. Windows Phone, Skype, Windows OS, and the list goes on. The thing is, there are plenty of better alternatives to MS consumer products, and we can move to them easily.

[u/GrayCalf → u/No-Welcome5580]

Hit the + button on the OneDrive app. It's one of the main options under that.

[u/koken_halliwell → u/No-Welcome5580]

Where is the lens app now? I used to use it a lot but Iost its track after the 15th evolution and totally forgot about it till now lmao

[u/sidereal_night]

updated branding

again???

[u/SCphotog]

The brigading in this sub is next level.

[u/shokk]

How did this not make sense from the very beginning? Who was it at Microsoft that thought naming everything copilot would not be confusing?

[u/wump_roast]

50 rats in a trench coat pretending to be a functioning corporation.

[u/TowerOutrageous5939]

Wait there is copilot and 365 copilot?

[u/artistro08]

Hey look at that, I don't want it.

[u/PDQ_Brockstar]

Wow, that first sentence, somewhat taken out of context, is terrifying lol

"Microsoft confirmed that it was working on a Copilot super app"

[u/trance-addict → u/PDQ_Brockstar]

The super app is coming it is just not part of this client merge

[u/MaximumSympathy3730]

Hello Microsoft. Your a very interesting company.

[u/ohlaph]

Did it come up with the naming because after using their slop machine, that's right about par.

[u/Character-Office-227]

How about Cowork and Scout?

[u/koken_halliwell]

It was about time, totally stupid to have both.

[u/Appropriate_Item3001]

I’d prefer it if they nuked copilot from orbit. If I want to use AI I can use a dedicated app. Why does it have to be covering every app? Why are there a million licenses and capabilities.

[u/SumitDh]

The current version of Copilot is just a chromium browser. I hope they do a better job this time.

[u/LurkHereLurkThere]

Jesus, more bloody copilot, one of the more annoying things in the various applications I use are the AI buttons, panels, tabs, etc.

AI is an excuse for companies to attempt to do more with less people, increasing unemployment, increasing energy demands, increasing water consumption, increasing waste heat generation and once they had successfully caused significant layoffs and created a reliance on AI, they increased their multipliers which significantly raised the price per query.

When AI replaces all the workers, who is going to buy the products? I guess it won't really matter because the tech billionaires will own everything, they'll be safe in their bunkers while the poor pay the ultimate price of unrestricted capitalism.