Anecdotal reports have it that enterprise users of Windows Copilot have been frustrated by the time it takes the AI chatbot to generate a ‘completion’ to a request. That’s a point Windows Central makes:

Microsoft’s new AI Copilot for Windows 11 is now rolling out, but it’s still too slow to be something that people are actually going to want to use. I highlighted this issue when the Windows Copilot first launched in preview back in June; the AI model takes too long to process your commands or queries, to a point where it makes more sense to do the task or find the information yourself.

The only scenario where Copilot makes sense is with complex tasks, asking it to handle multiple search queries and present it as a single answer. In that example, Copilot is fantastic. I can ask it how many Xbox Series X retail boxes I can fit in the back of my Tesla Model 3, and Copilot will do the research to:

1. Find out the dimensions of an Xbox Series X retail box
2. Find out the dimensions of a Tesla Model 3 trunk
3. Do the math to come to an answer

This would take a human much longer to process, whereas Copilot’s AI can do it in less than a minute. In this scenario, Copilot makes total sense. That said, it does like to talk and will respond to you like a human instead of just providing you with an answer, almost as if it’s trying to teach you how it came to this answer.

I appreciate the sentiment, but I just need the answer. Copilot does have a “more precise” answer mode, which is supposed to reduce the amount of ‘humany’ responses it gives, but I find it still likes to talk a little too much. No option simply provides me with the answer.

Is Windows Copilot always going to be so slow? We’ll see. Read the full column here.