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Microsoft’s decision to retire the standalone Microsoft Lens mobile scanner marks a decisive step in its product consolidation around Copilot — a move that preserves core capture and OCR capabilities but abandons several of Lens’s most convenient and accessibility-driven workflows, forcing...
Microsoft is retiring the standalone Microsoft Lens mobile app and moving its scanning and capture capabilities into the Microsoft 365 Copilot mobile app in a phased shutdown that begins in mid‑September and completes by mid‑December, a shift that will reshape how millions of users scan...
Microsoft is retiring the standalone Microsoft Lens mobile app and consolidating its scanning and capture capabilities into the Microsoft 365 Copilot app, in a phased shutdown that begins in mid‑September and culminates with the blocking of new scans in mid‑December 2025.
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Microsoft’s planned retirement of the Microsoft Lens mobile app marks a clear turning point for developers and operations teams inside fintech startups across Asia — and it forces a strategic rethink of document capture, OCR pipelines, and compliance workflows that many companies treated as...
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Microsoft’s decision to retire the popular Microsoft Lens (formerly Office Lens) mobile scanning app marks a significant change for millions of casual and enterprise users who rely on its fast, reliable capture and OCR workflows — the retirement begins on September 15, 2025, the app will be...
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Microsoft has announced it will retire the standalone Microsoft Lens mobile app and fold its scanning capabilities into the Microsoft 365 Copilot mobile app, beginning a phased retirement that starts on September 15, 2025, leads to the removal of Lens from app stores by mid‑November, and stops...