# Microsoft is merging its many Copilots into one AI ‘super app’ > Source: > Published: 2026-07-30 19:43:27+00:00 Microsoft has a fix for the growing pile of Copilots you are meant to use. It wants to stuff them all into a single app. On its earnings call this week, chief executive Satya Nadella confirmed Microsoft is building a Copilot “super app.” It merges chat, coding, the Cowork research tool and Microsoft’s new autonomous agents, called Autopilots, into one place. It will span both consumer and business use, and launch this year, [The Verge reported](https://www.theverge.com/tech/972927/microsoft-copilot-super-app-confirmed). “Copilot is evolving rapidly from chat to Cowork to autopilots,” Nadella said. Bringing them together in one super app is “a major step forward,” he added, promising to share more soon. [Fortune](https://fortune.com/2026/05/29/microsoft-working-on-super-app/) first revealed the plan in May, under the internal slogan “Delivering one Copilot.” ## Everyone wants to be the app you open first Microsoft is not alone. The “super app” is the industry’s current obsession. The idea: fold a chatbot, a coding assistant and agents that act on your behalf into a single product. OpenAI has already rolled out [ChatGPT Work](https://thenextweb.com/news/openai-chatgpt-work-agent-launch) to its own staff, and [Anthropic’s Claude](https://thenextweb.com/news/claude-cowork-mobile-web-agent-office) has folded its Cowork agent into the chatbot. The prize is obvious: be the first app a user opens, whether they are writing an email or shipping code, and absorb as much of their day as possible. Microsoft has the reach to try. It says paid Copilot seats have passed 30 million, and that weekly engagement now rivals Outlook and Teams. ## The catch The numbers are less flattering up close. Thirty million paid seats is a fraction of Microsoft’s roughly 450 million business customers, and the company has been layering usage-based charges on top. For all the pushing, [not many people pay for Copilot](https://thenextweb.com/news/only-3-3-per-cent-of-users-pay-for-copilot-so-microsoft-is-finally-making-it-optional) yet. There is a design risk, too. Microsoft has spent months jamming Copilot into every corner of Office, to the point of a user revolt over a floating button it had to let people hide. Cramming consumer and enterprise tools into one app could deepen that fatigue rather than fix it. Bundling everything also raises the stakes on safety. Copilot has already been hit by [prompt-injection attacks](https://thenextweb.com/news/microsoft-copilot-word-worm-prompt-injection-super-app) that can turn the assistant against its user. Merging chat, code and autonomous agents gives any single flaw more room to run. Still, the direction is set. Microsoft’s cloud and Copilot growth helped its shares jump this week, and the super app, built on its [Copilot Cowork](https://thenextweb.com/news/microsoft-deepseek-copilot-cowork) plumbing, is now its flagship AI bet. The pitch is simplicity. The test is whether one Copilot proves easier to live with than five. ## Get the TNW newsletter Get the most important tech news in your inbox each week.