Microsoft is reportedly building a super app to tame product sprawl — and finally crack mobile
Super apps are very 2010s, but they might be the future for Microsoft. The enterprise giant is working on combining its sprawling and often confusing product suite into a single super app expected by late summer, Fortune reports.
By unifying the tools, Microsoft is hoping that the massive popularity of some of its offerings — particularly GitHub Copilot — will rub off on its other, slower-growing products.
The tool will merge its coding assistant GitHub Copilot, its chat function Copilot, its Copilot Cowork tool, and a new agentic workflow called Autopilot. The move, known internally as “Delivering one Copilot,” will have the dual purpose of simplifying Microsoft’s fragmented desktop AI offerings and finally helping the office software giant gain a foothold on mobile, where competing tools have dominated.
Microsoft is taking a page from frenemy OpenAI’s playbook. In March, OpenAI announced plans for its own desktop super app to combine ChatGPT, Codex, and its Atlas browser into one central workstation.
The tool will merge its coding assistant GitHub Copilot, its chat function Copilot, its Copilot Cowork tool, and a new agentic workflow called Autopilot. The move, known internally as “Delivering one Copilot,” will have the dual purpose of simplifying Microsoft’s fragmented desktop AI offerings and finally helping the office software giant gain a foothold on mobile, where competing tools have dominated.
Microsoft is taking a page from frenemy OpenAI’s playbook. In March, OpenAI announced plans for its own desktop super app to combine ChatGPT, Codex, and its Atlas browser into one central workstation.
