Microsoft’s AI assistant has been everywhere. In your Word docs, your Notepad, your Photos app, your email, your browser. Turns out “everywhere” isn’t the same thing as “useful.”
Jacob Andreou, the newly installed Executive Vice President of Microsoft’s Copilot division, is now systematically stripping out Copilot integrations from lower-performing Windows applications. Notepad and Photos are among the apps losing their AI sidekick.
The adoption problem Microsoft can’t ignore
Here’s the number that explains everything Andreou is doing: 4.5%. That’s the share of Microsoft’s 450 million Microsoft 365 customers who are actually paying for Copilot features.
Andreou, who took the helm on March 17, 2026, appears to understand this. Rather than continuing to bolt AI onto every application regardless of whether users want it there, he’s advocating for a focused approach: concentrate engineering resources on the integrations that actually deliver value, and kill the ones that don’t.
