Microsoft Officially Unveils Copilot 'Super App' and Rebrands Scout as Autopilot

Microsoft has officially unveiled its new Copilot "super app," weeks after teasing the product last month. The redesigned app bundles three AI capabilities — chat, coding, and agents — into a single interface, and Microsoft believes the app could become as influential as Office, the product line that defined the company for decades.

The stakes are significant. Microsoft is betting that a unified AI workspace can succeed where individual AI tools have fragmented the user experience, and the comparison to Office signals how central the company considers this launch to its future.

Alongside the launch, Microsoft is rebranding Scout, the AI personal assistant it unveiled at its Build developer conference earlier this year, as Autopilot. The rename brings the assistant under the Copilot umbrella and gives it top-level placement in the new app.

Three Tabs, One App

The new Copilot app is organized around three tabs: Home, Code, and Autopilot. Home merges Copilot Chat and Cowork into a single experience and serves as the default landing page for Copilot users. Microsoft also plans to add a Today feature inside Home, which will work as a personalized dashboard surfacing important information for the user.

The Code tab consolidates Microsoft's AI coding tools, while the Autopilot tab houses the renamed Scout assistant, which Microsoft originally positioned as an AI agent capable of taking actions on a user's behalf when it debuted at Build.

Why It Matters

The "super app" framing places Microsoft in direct competition with a broader industry push to make AI assistants the primary interface for computing rather than a collection of disconnected features. By unifying chat, coding, and agentic capabilities under one roof, Microsoft is arguing that AI should be organized around a single persistent workspace — much as Office organized productivity around documents, spreadsheets, and email.

The rebranding of Scout to Autopilot also completes a naming consolidation. Microsoft now has Copilot as the user-facing brand and Autopilot as its agent layer, a structure that suggests the company wants a clean taxonomy as AI features multiply across Windows, Office, and its developer tools.

The launch follows Microsoft's confirmation of the super app plans last month, when the company first signaled its intention to consolidate its sprawling AI offerings into a single application experience.