Should Outlook’s ‘Search with Copilot’ Lead to Copilot Search Instead of Chat?

It's fantastic that "Search with Copilot" is an option in Outlook when searching through emails.

However, wouldn't it make more sense if this experience opened Copilot Search rather than Copilot Chat?

Personally, I'd love to see Copilot Search and Copilot Chat merged together so there is one point of entry. Copilot does a fine job of finding content related to a single-word search term, even if its presentation of these results isn't as optimized as Copilot Search.

Are you a Copilot Search user or do you just use Copilot Chat for everything, just like the Outlook team?

First posted on Linkedin on 01/28/2026 -> View Linkedin Post Here