You can use Copilot directly within the Settings app’s search function. Stuck looking for a specific option or setting on your PC? Simply type your query into the search bar and click “Ask Copilot in Windows (preview).”
Another great listicle of Copilot tips.
“We have decided to pause the rollouts of these experiences to further refine them based on user feedback.”
“Satya and the entire senior leadership team lean on Gates very significantly. His opinion is sought every time we make a major change.”
One of the most useful functions of Microsoft Copilot in Outlook, is its ability to quickly write first drafts of emails, so that you can focus on getting the tone right, rather than typing out all the pleasantries.
using the Copilot app on the web instead of the Copilot extension in the browser seems to block ads. Why? Well, apparently, the Copilot app has a built-in ad blocker that filters out most of the ads from the web sources.
Microsoft is working hard to develop stories around AI and why organisations need to adopt it. This one, by Microsoft EVP and Chief Commercial Officer Judson Althoff, provides lots of links to customers who are putting AI to work
After the termination of the short-lived experiment to have the jumped-up paperclip offer its help – whether a user wanted it or not – you would have hoped that was the end of it.
To start creating new slides in Powerpoint using Copilot, all you need to do is ask it, giving it any information you feel it might need to be up to the task.
Microsoft has now confirmed that this was a bug, and it has also added that the app is harmless as it does not run any code in the background, and no user data is captured by it.
The company is also planning to add another handy feature to Copilot in Microsoft 365 next month in the form of allowing the use of weblinks to reference files in Word…
Another helpful set of tips, this time from HowToGeek.
According to Microsoft, copilot can be configured in for commercial environments, so don’t panic. Even if Copilot is installed on Windows Server, you can get rid of it.
“Copilot opening on widescreen PCs automatically is not by itself enough to push me over the edge. But Microsoft’s systemic push to convert the Windows 11 desktop into a monetization path…is.”
To really get the best out of Microsoft Copilot in Windows 11, you need to know some tricks. And that’s basically what this guide is all about.
The upgrade of over a billion Windows 10 desktops to Copilot integration has well and truly begun!
A rumored AI Explorer feature coming to Windows 11 is designed to work as a timeline you can summon on your PC. Microsoft describes this internally as a feature that lets you “retrieve anything you’ve ever seen or done on your device.”
While still in preview, it can help with everyday tasks on your PC and the Edge browser. This article shows you some tips and tricks for using Copilot in Windows 11.
Microsoft was working to develop a highly personalized Windows experience suited to every user particularly. This Windows experience might be supervised by Copilot, hence Copilot for every person.
Microsoft is enhancing Copilot with new usage report features, offering insights into AI adoption within organizations. The updates will provide detailed analysis of active Copilot usage while respecting data protection. It will cover aspects like total active users, average daily users, and platform-specific usage. The reports can be generated for different time periods.
Hovering over the Copilot icon will reveal a menu of contextual actions showing the actions it can perform, such as generating similar images or analyzing visual content.
This strategy ensures Teams gets better integrations with Copilot – not that Teams is suddenly going to be abandoned.
A new AI PC developer program will encourage software developers to leverage local hardware to build AI features into their apps.
“Get it the **** off my system” and “in the trash where it belongs” were common refrains as users voiced their displeasure at having Copilot forced upon them. Numerous reports emerged of people immediately disabling, hiding, or removing the AI assistant from their installations.
This continues the rollout of Copilot in Windows 10 that began in November of 2023. This current rollout phase will reach most of its targeted Windows 11 and 10 devices by the end of May.
He will launch a division of Microsoft that brings consumer-facing products including Microsoft’s Copilot, Bing, Edge, and GenAI under one team called Microsoft AI.
Previous Microsoft-commissioned research found Copilot testers worked 29 percent faster, and 77 percent that used it for two weeks found it indispensable.
You can right-click any file inside or outside File Explorer and select between “actions” like “Send to Copilot” and “Summarize” using Copilot.
We do love a good listicle, and this one from Sportskeeda gives you lots of good tips.
“While we don’t currently support uninstalling Copilot, you can right-click the Copilot icon and unpin it to remove it from always showing on your taskbar,” the company explained.
If you use Copilot in “Balanced” mode, it will still rely on GPT-4. However, switch to “Precise” or “Creative” mode, and you’ll switch into Turbo mode as well.
It’s available as a standalone portal that can be integrated with third-party products. And it’s also available as an embedded service within Microsoft products like Sentinel, Defender XDR, Purview, Priva, and Entra.
“You can drag and drop files into Copilot seamlessly and ask questions right away. There is also support for built-in Code Interpreter, but it fails to execute some tasks like converting a DOC document to PDF…”
Microsoft is also unlocking Copilot Pro inside the Office web apps, so you don’t need a separate Microsoft 365 subscription to use the chatbot inside Word, Outlook, and other free web apps.
You can use Copilot’s AI skills to create a new presentation, organize your presentation, summarize a presentation, and answer questions about the content of a presentation.
“Teams users will be able to ask questions after the meeting ends, and for every Copilot statement, there will be a citation number, clicking on which reveals various details, including the speaker the citation is attributed to on a transcript viewer…”
If your mouse cursor happens to drift over to the Copilot icon on the taskbar, the Copilot pane will open to make users aware of the delights on offer.
When testing Copilot Designer for safety issues and flaws, Jones found that the tool generated “demons and monsters alongside terminology related to abortion rights, teenagers with assault rifles, sexualized images of women in violent tableaus, and underage drinking and drug use,” CNBC reports.
Nothing in Microsoft’s announcement about Mistral shows the company intends to pit its two kids head to head. OpenAI remains the favorite child because its models power Microsoft’s flagship AI product, Copilot.
Artificial intelligence is feeling harder and harder to avoid, but you still have options. Microsoft recently introduced Copilot in Windows 11, and it has taken root in its new home on the taskbar. But if you want it to disable it, you can do so.
Copilot for Finance draws on essential context from your existing financial data sources, including traditional Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, such as Microsoft Dynamics 365 and SAP, and the Microsoft Graph.
Copilot for OneDrive will take on the role of a research assistant of sorts, being able to both find, summarize, and extract information from a wide range of files. These include text documents presentations, spreadsheets, HTML pages, PDF files…
Copilot claimed that US president Joe Biden held Putin responsible for Nalvalny’s death, and that, in response, Putin called the accusations “baseless and politically motivated.”
Microsoft has revealed a new plug-in for Copilot, its AI assistant, named Power Automate that will enable users to automate repetitive and tedious tasks, such as creating and manipulating entries in Excel, handling PDFs, and file management.
The renowned security expert Bruce Schneier realised that Microsoft let slip an important piece of information recently – about surveillance of their AI tools.
Will the fascination with AI-generated content die off, or will it only become more commonplace as we progress into the future? Only time will tell, but for now, Copilot really is changing the game for some people who have spent the time to learn it.
Microsoft no longer wears gloves and makes you understand that missing out on your artificial intelligence is not an option. You don’t have to use it or pay for the boosted formula of course, but you won’t be able to pretend that Copilot doesn’t exist.
“ChatGPT & Microsoft Copilot are both artificial intelligence technologies developed with the intent of helping you accomplish tasks & activities faster and more efficiently. While they seem similar, there are significant differences between the two.”
“Employees are asked questions about the benefits of using Copilot at work for specific tasks. Other survey questions that will ask workers to give their thoughts on the relevance of using Copilot and how it has been integrated into their business.”
“With “Explain with Copilot”, you can ask Copilot in Windows to help explain log files, code segments, or any selected content directly from within Notepad.”
Microsoft: “The Copilot icon will change appearance and animate to indicate that Copilot can help. When you hover your mouse over the Copilot icon, it will provide a menu of actions that you can take, such as summarizing or explaining the copied text.”
Mark Pesce and Drew Smith have written a white paper that lays out the basic value proposition for organisations considering a pricey subscription to Microsoft’s Copilot Pro. Is it really worth it?
Customers, excited by the vague promises and wall-to-wall coverage of how “AI is the defining technology of our time,” are increasingly left bewildered about what exactly it will do in return for all the money vendors such as Microsoft are asking for it.
One year after fully embracing generative AI chatbots, Microsoft is giving Copilot a fresh lick of paint. Copilot now has a more streamlined design on the web and in its mobile apps.
Copilot is now being positioned as the future of Microsoft’s AI efforts, which are leaning more into productivity and creation than just search.
The company said that businesses and organizations with both a Copilot for Microsoft 365 license and the Copilot generative AI assistant turned on in the Windows desktop should be able to see a new toggle on the Copilot sidebar: Work and W
The recent change to make the panel wider so there’s “more space to chat” was due to Windows 11 user feedback requesting that additional real-estate.
Microsoft’s revenue and earnings not only exceeded estimates but also significantly surpassed the numbers from the year before, with AI being a star of the growth.
In a conference call discussing Microsoft’s latest earning reports, Nadella stated that since its release on Windows 11, and Windows 10, in October and December 2023, Windows Copilot has amassed more than 75 million users.
“Microsoft’s document is called “New Future of Work” and emerged last month with the suggestion we should not be asking how AI will impact work, but how we want it to.”
“Copilot in Microsoft 365 is only starting to roll out, so it remains to be seen if that is more useful than simply asking Bing Chat to do X or Y and pasting the result into a program…”
Two weeks after Microsoft unveiled Copilot Pro and rolled the service out to more customers, users are complaining about performance, and the platform is being met with a shrug by administrators.
Copilot for Microsoft 365 will generate AI summaries for users sharing Word documents with others on OneDrive, according to a new feature coming to Microsoft 365 in February 2024.
‘For those AI enthusiasts worried that there are too many Microsoft Copilots to keep up with, we have some good news for you: Windows Copilot will become the hub for all Microsoft Copilots out there, including Copilot for Microsoft 365.”
A week after Microsoft unveiled its new paid subscription for Microsoft Copilot, several users raised concerns on social media, citing performance issues and slow load times.
If you’re already a Microsoft 365 Personal or Home subscriber, then the extra $20 per month (per person) subscription will immediately unlock Copilot in Office apps on Mac, Windows, and iPad.
“Given the demand and interest we’ve heard from small and medium-sized businesses, we’re removing that 300 seat minimum,” says Microsoft “So now businesses of all sizes can get the USD $30 option and enable Copilot in Microsoft 365.”
“…some users expressed frustration with the current functionality, noting that they had to repeatedly upload the same image for image recognition tasks as the chatbot could not access previous conversations related to that image…”
A hidden option has appeared in the latest preview builds of Windows 11 indicating that all components related to artificial intelligence features can be removed from the operating system.
In notebook mode, you can feed the Bing AI up to 16,000 characters of research documents or other content and ask Bing Chat or Microsoft Copilot anything about it.
“Like a copilot in the cockpit, Windows Copilot can help you with various tasks as you use your computer. Here’s what it can do…”
Called “Draft by Copilot”, it seems to be the same function as “Sound Like Me”, and it will allow us compose a new message or respond to emails, but using Copilot’s artificial intelligence.
“It appears that users won’t be able to ask Edge Copilot to summarise any video they please. The video in question must either be processed before the request or contain pre-written subtitles…”
The key idea behind Copilot and other programs like it, sometimes called code assistants, is to put the information that programmers need right next to the code they are writing.
Copilot will soon be able to respond using OpenAI’s latest GPT-4 Turbo model, which essentially means it will “see” more data thanks to a 128K context window.
“You can tell Microsoft doesn’t want to add value to Windows 10 because it hasn’t done so in over two years. If Copilot added a ton of value, the company would try to use it as a promotion for Windows 11.”
Every so often an article comes along that explains damn near everything. This New Yorker longread – detailing Microsoft’s involvement in AI, and its intersection with the recent chaos at OpenAI – is exactly one of those.
For now, the feature will only be available for unmanaged devices running Windows 10 Home and Pro version 22H2. Microsoft says that the AI-powered Copilot tool is currently available in select global markets…
Copilot, the AI chatbot formerly known as Bing Chat, is out of preview. That means Copilot is now available in 105 languages and 169 countries “on all modern browsers for mobile and web.”
Ready or not!
If you want to implement Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistants, don’t expect the software giant’s channel to be much help – they’ve scarcely had a chance to use it, never mind develop meaningful expertise in the tool.
Microsoft has confirmed that it’s working to integrate GPT-4 Turbo, OpenAI’s latest GPT language model, into Bing Chat. Once it’s rolled out, the Redmond-based tech giant will then increase the Bing Chat character limit.
Currently, Bing AI runs GPT-4, but GPT-4 Turbo will allow for various benefits including more accurate responses to queries and other important advancements.
Windows Terminal is getting an optional feature – ChatGPT-powered “AI chat” on Windows 11. With ChatGPT AI Chat in Terminal, you can use AI to generate commands, explain errors, and get recommendations.
Copilot is surprisingly easy to use. The tool adopts the casual chatbot style so it’s easy to prompt and accessible even to non-tech workers. Workers can ask the bot to summarise documents or turn them into PowerPoints or spreadsheets with a few clicks.
A new feature turns off Bing search integration, allowing you to use Microsoft’s Bing Chat as a standalone AI, similar to OpenAI models.
“People who work with information daily are excited about the capabilities of generative AI to help them discover and create new content. They may already be using generative AI by accessing Microsoft Copilot or ChatGPT in the browser.”
Turning on Copilot on Windows 10 requires enlisting in the Windows Insiders Program, modifying the system registry, and tweaking the OS with a third-party app. Do not proceed if you do not want to risk encountering bugs or instabilities or if you are not comfortable with in-depth modifications.
Microsoft is following OpenAI’s GPTs with Copilot Studio: a new no-code solution that lets businesses create a custom copilot or integrate a custom ChatGPT AI chatbot.
Microsoft’s vision for Copilot involves crafting personalized responses and feedback, increasing the relevance and utility of interactions based on individual user data.
Microsoft announced that they’re dropping the Bing Chat branding and moving to Copilot, the new name for the chat interface you might have used in Bing, Microsoft Edge, and Windows 11.
This means that users can now access and use Copilot’s features directly from within PDF files when using it on Edge, making it easier to get help with their work and be more productive…
For the more daring among you, The Windows Club has detailed instructions on how to add Copilot to the ‘context menu’ – that menu that pops up when you hit the right mouse button…
Enthusiasts discovered a hidden feature that lets you move the Copilot icon to the notification area…It sits next to the Start menu button by default, however, it seems that Microsoft is open to experimenting with other places for Copilot.
One of the best ways to scale up an AI’s capability after launch is to get it in front of as many users as possible. Delivering Copilot to another billion users for potential use would help Copilot scale up quickly.
The partnership essentially boils down to: Microsoft needs more compute resources to keep up with the alleged “explosive growth” of its AI services, and Oracle just happens to have tens of thousands of Nvidia A100s and H100 GPUs available for rent.
Just like Windows 11, this update to Windows 10 will place a Copilot button directly on the Windows 10 taskbar, which will open the exact same Copilot sidebar experience found on Windows 11.
There’s a known problem with the preview build where desktop icons are shuffled around. This apparently happens due to Copilot’s interaction with Windows multi-display setups.
Getting started with Copilot is as easy as hitting a button on your taskbar, pressing a keystroke, or clicking a prompt in the Start menu. And it’s not just a one-size-fits-all; you can tailor Copilot to your needs, asking it to churn out anything from a poem to a travel tip with equal flair.
Microsoft has been active in the space, adding AI chatbot capabilities to its Bing search engine earlier this year, and it’s now previewing an early version of its new Copilot AI assistant in Windows 11.
“When you pair it with the Windows 11 Voice Access app it becomes a far more valuable tool. Suddenly the Copilot chatbot’s ability to interpret my sentences and act on my commands is helpful because I’m able to dictate to it.”
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