Microsoft has announced the addition of a new AI assistant called Windows Copilot to Windows 11. The assistant will be integrated directly into Windows 11 and available to open and use from the taskbar across all apps and programs. The Windows Copilot side bar stays consistent across apps, programs, and windows, always available to act as a personal assistant. It can summarize content, rewrite it, or even explain it. Windows Copilot is a personal assistant that can adjust settings and take other actions on a PC. It is built on the same foundations as Bing Chat, and developers can extend plug-ins written for Bing or OpenAIs ChatGPT to this AI-powered assistant. Microsoft will start testing Windows Copilot publicly in June before rolling it out more broadly to existing Windows 11 users. The company has been hinting about building AI features into Windows over the past six months. Windows Copilot is a lot more than the basic Bing Chat link that Microsoft added to the taskbar earlier this year. The assistant looks very similar to the dialog box found in Bing Chat, and it won’t directly replace the search bar on the Windows 11 taskbar.
