{"id":240579,"date":"2026-07-05T21:24:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T01:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/05\/microsoft-merges-enterprise-and-consumer-copilot-apps\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T01:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T05:30:19","slug":"microsoft-merges-enterprise-and-consumer-copilot-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/05\/microsoft-merges-enterprise-and-consumer-copilot-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Merges Enterprise and Consumer Copilot Apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/news\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/microsoft-merges-enterprise-and-consumer-copilot-apps\/\">Microsoft Merges Enterprise and Consumer Copilot Apps<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/news\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/microsoft-merges-enterprise-and-consumer-copilot-apps\/\">https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/news\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/microsoft-merges-enterprise-and-consumer-copilot-apps\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-05 21:24:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.pymnts.com\">www.pymnts.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Microsoft plans to merge its Copilot consumer and enterprise AI apps into a unified offering.<\/li>\n<li>The consolidated app will include advanced AI coding tools and new &#8220;AutoPilot&#8221; agents, which are always-on automation features that will require additional payments.<\/li>\n<li>To streamline Copilot, Microsoft is removing underused features from its existing enterprise offerings.<\/li>\n<li>The company aims to convince customers to pay extra for the new add-ons through feature refinements.<\/li>\n<li>Microsoft has formed a $2.5 billion AI consultancy business, dubbed the Microsoft Frontier Company, to deploy industry and engineering experts for AI co-design and innovation with customers.<\/li>\n<li>This move echoes similar strategies from competitors like Amazon, OpenAI, and Anthropic.<\/li>\n<li>Research indicates that AI platform users at workplaces are likely to adopt the same platform for personal tasks, which benefits enterprise AI investments in the long run.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Merges Enterprise and Consumer Copilot Apps https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/news\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/microsoft-merges-enterprise-and-consumer-copilot-apps\/ Publish Date: 2026-07-05 21:24:00 Source Domain: www.pymnts.com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":240580,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/House-Copilot.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240579"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240581,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240579\/revisions\/240581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}