Subj : Copilot is everywhere in Windows 11 and its about to get harder t To : All From : TechnologyDaily Date : Fri Apr 19 2024 12:45:05 Copilot is everywhere in Windows 11 and its about to get harder to ignore but is Microsoft in danger of wearing out the AI assistants welcome? Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2024 11:34:52 +0000 Description: Prepare to see a lot more of Copilot in Windows 11 and Edge if recent developments are anything to go by. FULL STORY ====================================================================== Windows 11 is going to see a lot more of Copilot in the future thats pretty obviously the line Microsoft is taking with its desktop-based assistant and theres fresh evidence of the AI creeping into more corners of the OS. Firstly, we have a sighting of a new wallpaper, which came yesterday, when a couple of inbound laptops with the promising Snapdragon X Elite CPU were leaked. Both of those Lenovo notebooks had a Copilot-themed wallpaper on the desktop , so its a safe assumption that Microsoft has an official new background for the AI in the pipeline. As Windows Latest observes, this is actually a traditional bloom wallpaper, except Microsoft has redone the image in the Copilot colors (mirroring the Copilot button in the taskbar). The tech site also points out other ways in which Copilot is creeping into Windows 11 and Microsoft Edge. For example, in the Edge browser, as highlighted by leaker Leopeva64, theres now a bar of options pertaining to the AI when you open the Settings panel. Microsoft is testing a new header on Edge's Settings page with some actions you can perform using Copilot (Canary):https://t.co/VxEQP4vBDP.https://t.co/GTtjr4EzWo pic.twitter.com/7I8LFjDkuL April 13, 2024 See more This bar contains suggestions for how you might use Copilot, allowing you to get advice on security settings for example, or managing your passwords in the browser. These suggestions change depending on what section of Edges settings youre in, by the way, making them more relevant to what you might be looking to do. Note that this idea is just in testing right now, and in the Canary channel to boot (the earliest test avenue). Another ability brought in for Copilot in Edge (again, in the Canary channel) is an expanded Ask Copilot context menu. This means that when you select a section of text in a web page, there are new options for directly interacting with Copilot in this menu. As Windows Latest explains, these choices are: Explain, Summarize, Expand, and Ask anything in Chat. The last option acts like the current incarnation of Ask Copilot it just fires up the AIs panel with a query on the selected text. With the new options, however, Explain prompts Copilot to do just that offer an explanation of the text and Summarize provides a summary, as youd expect. In a similar vein, Expand goes the other way, furnishing you with extra facts or information about the selected text. Again with Edge, Leopeva64 also spotted that AI is going to be integrated into the browsers Magnify Image option, with a button spotted that offers to AI Enhance the image after its been blown up. This is in very early testing, though, and the button doesnt yet do anything at all. Microsoft will also integrate AI into Edge's "Magnify image" feature, there will be a new button to "AI enhance" the magnified image, this new option doesn't seem to work yet (at least in my case):https://t.co/ZIfFQbiBuS.https://t.co/TkPLI918AE pic.twitter.com/qNRkIYfT8l April 18, 2024 See more Another recent addition Windows Latest flagged up is Circle to Copilot in Edge in Windows 11 (and iOS), allowing you to literally draw a circle around something to activate a Copilot query about the highlighted item. All this comes on top of a recent move in the Beta channel of Windows 11 previews , trying out a new way of highlighting that Copilot can help with something by animating the taskbar button for the AI when this is the case. New options have also been added to the menu that appears when you hover over the Copilot button, too, expanding that further. Analysis: Making Copilot a more visible presence All of this is still to come, we should note these are changes in testing for Windows 11 or its Edge browser, and in the case of the wallpaper, a glimpse of whats very likely to come. Indeed, that Copilot background will likely be the default wallpaper for AI PCs starting with Snapdragon X Elite-powered laptops that launch in June. (Not forgetting Microsofts own Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6, the consumer spins on which will land then, and may have a custom version of the Elite SoC inside). Overall, though, its clear that Microsoft is pushing forward with expanding Copilots capabilities, and sussing out ways in which the AI can be made more visible on the desktop. Whether thats about an animation for the taskbar button (effectively declaring Its-a-me, Copilot, I can help with that), or a fancy desktop wallpaper that could be a permanent reminder of the AI, if you fall for the color scheme (which does look quite funky, to be fair). Wed be surprised if most of these tested changes didnt come to fruition, frankly, and as noted, theres a theme of Microsoft increasingly pushing Copilot which comes as no surprise. The big rumored addition on the horizon is, of course, AI Explorer but that feature (supposedly debuting in the Windows 11 24H2 update ) may have an unexpected twist in its initial incarnation thats a bit of a shocker. (Spoiler alert: If you dont have an ARM CPU like the aforementioned Snapdragon, then you can forget it Intel and AMD-powered PCs might be left out in the cold ). You might also like... Watch out: soon some older PCs will lose Windows 11 support Windows 11 is getting a voice-powered ability many users have been longing for Dont make these 5 big mistakes when using Windows 11 ====================================================================== Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/computing/windows/copilot-is-everywhere-in-windows-1 1-and-its-about-to-get-harder-to-ignore-but-is-microsoft-in-danger-of-wearing- out-the-ai-assistants-welcome --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 (Linux/64) * Origin: tqwNet Technology News (1337:1/100) .