Microsoft retires consumer Copilot Deep Research and Podcasts
Microsoft's published lifecycle date arrived for two consumer Copilot surfaces. Deep Research is no longer available, with Premium users directed to Researcher and saved reports retained through Researcher, chat history, or Word. Podcasts creation, access, saved items, and shared links end for free and paid users.
Why it matters: Feature retirement can remove both a workflow and its stored output. The two surfaces have different preservation paths, so a generic Copilot backup assumption is unsafe.