By Mayank Parmar
Publication Date: 2026-10-13 01:07:00
Microsoft appears to be realizing that nobody wants Copilot in places where it’s not required, and is slowly pulling it back. One of the biggest updates to New Outlook on Windows was support for Copilot-powered themes, but apparently, not enough people actually used the feature, and Microsoft is now taking it offline.
It’s not the first time Microsoft is pulling back on a Copilot feature. After Microsoft promised to add Copilot only where it makes sense, the company removed it from Windows 11’s Snipping Tool. It also renamed Copilot in Windows Notepad to “Writing tools,” in the hope that users would stop associating it with Copilot and hating it.
More recently, Windows Latest has also observed that Microsoft is no longer hell-bent on calling every PC a “Copilot+ PC” at every opportunity it gets. And now, it looks like Microsoft 365 products are getting similar changes. I noticed it earlier today when Microsoft quietly posted an update for…
