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On 29 July 2026, on Microsoft’s FY26 Q4 earnings call, Satya Nadella committed the company to bringing chat, Cowork, Autopilots and code together in one Copilot super app “this quarter” — a window that closes on 30 September 2026. There is no build, no admin documentation and no ship date, but there is a dated public commitment, four component products that are already generally available, and a governance stack Microsoft spent the last nine months assembling. This guide covers what was actually said and what it commits Microsoft to, which Copilots are genuinely merging and which are not, where the consumer and commercial data boundary sits inside a single client, why a seat-priced product with a metered pillar one click away changes the shape of the budget, which controls exist right now across the Microsoft 365 admin centre, Entra, Purview and Agent 365, and an eight-step readiness roadmap worth completing whether or not Microsoft hits the quarter.