Microsoft Launches Copilot Soon In Windows 11, Get Ready For Revolutionary Transformation!

Come on Panay, head of Windows division and device at Microsoft. (photo: twitter @panos_panay)

JAKARTA - Microsoft will add an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant named Copilot to Windows 11. As with the Copilot cydebar on Edge, the Office app, and even GitHub, Windows Copilot will be integrated directly into Windows 11 and can be accessed and used from the taskbar in all applications and programs.

"After opening, Windows Copilot sidebar remains consistent in all apps, programs, and windows, always available as your personal assistant," saidUS Panay, head of the Windows division and Microsoft devices, quoted by The Verge.

"This makes every user capable of being a user, helps you take action, adjust your settings, and connect smoothly through your favorite app," he added.

WindowsCopilot can summarize the content you see in the app, change it, or even explain it. The display is very similar to the dialog box in Bing Chat, so you can ask general questions and things you usually ask to search engines.

Windows Copilot will not immediately replace the search bar in the Windows 11 taskbar, but there will be a separate Copilot button next to it, similar to how Cortana has its own space in the Windows 10 taskbar. According to Microsoft, Windows Copilot is a "private assistant," which sounds similar to how Microsoft describes Cortana as "personal productivity assistant."

Since Copilot is integrated into Windows, you can also do things like asking this assistant to "adjust my settings so I can focus" or take other actions on PC. This is much more than just a basic Bing Chat link that Microsoft added to the taskbar earlier this year.

As Windows Copilot builds on the same footing as Bing Chat, Microsoft even allows developers to expand plug-in written for OpenAI's Bing or ChatGPT to this AI-backed assistant.

This opens up opportunities for many new functions that developers create for ChatGPT and Bing, as well as future improvements that will automatically be forwarded to Windows Copilot.

Microsoft has provided clues about building AI features into Windows over the past six months, after Panay claimed in January that "AI will change the way you do things in Windows."

Many expect Microsoft to wait until the next version of Windows, but the company is clearly continuing its Windows AI ambitions.

Microsoft will begin Windows Copilot's public testing in June before launching it more broadly to existing Windows 11 users.