By BigGo Finance
Publication Date: 2026-10-03 00:55:00
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has twice in one week described Copilot as a “new operating system for work,” even as a technical teardown of the application by tech media shows that its desktop version is essentially a Chromium-based web app with a core launcher of only about 5MB.
On October 1, in an official Microsoft blog post announcing that LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky will step down by the end of 2026, Nadella again used the phrase. “We are building Copilot into an entirely new operating system for work — one that works across every model, every work scenario, and every task,” he said.
This is not the first time Nadella has used similar language. According to a September 26 report by IT Home, after Microsoft launched the Copilot “super app,” he had already said the company was building Copilot into an entirely new operating system for work.
The Technical Reality of Copilot
Tech outlet Windows Latest conducted a technical teardown of the Copilot desktop app and found that its…
