Microsoft heads to Build with Copilot 'super app' and Copilot Health

Ahead of Build, Microsoft is preparing a Copilot 'super app' that unifies its sprawling Copilot assistants into one interface (per Fortune), new AI models and Windows improvements, and Copilot Health — a push that connects wearables and wellness apps, beginning with Apple Health, alongside records from more than 50,000 US provider organizations.

Copilot Health is the most concrete new vertical: by integrating wearable data with provider records, Microsoft positions Copilot as a health-context layer, the kind of move Forbes flagged that 'healthcare CIOs should take note of.' The super-app consolidation, meanwhile, addresses long-standing criticism that Microsoft's Copilot branding had fragmented across products.

The sour note is developer-facing: GitHub Copilot's shift from a flat monthly subscription to a usage-based billing model drew vocal dissatisfaction, with many calling it 'the end of Copilot's golden age' — echoing the same backlash that hit other vendors' move to compute-metered pricing this week. Competitively, the super-app and health push pit Microsoft against Google's ecosystem-integration story and Apple's upcoming Siri overhaul at WWDC. Watch whether the unified Copilot actually reduces friction or just rebrands, and how the GitHub Copilot pricing change affects retention among individual developers.