Microsoft rolls out updated Copilot app to Windows 11 testers

Microsoft has begun pushing out a new version of its generative AI (genAI) Copilot application to users testing new builds of Windows 11. The app has an updated interface with a panel on the right listing the history of queries that have been posed, and the responses on the left. 

Microsoft has designed the app along the lines of the user interfaces (UIs) available in OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, and Google’s Gemini. (The current version of Copilot for Windows in the Microsoft Store has a plain interface with no history panel. Once a user poses a new query, the old conversation disappears.)

Copilot is now a native Windows app with the implementation of XAML (Extensible Application Markup Language), a Microsoft-developed language that encodes the UI separate from the application code. 

the The new version isn’t available to everyone. It is still in preview and is being rolled out to testers of Windows 11 through the Windows Insider program. 

“We are excited to be previewing improvements with our Insiders to ensure all our customers have a great Copilot experience for Windows,” Microsoft said in a blog post.

Microsoft is constantly rolling out Copilot updates across its Windows ecosystem and Microsoft 365. The company this week announced that it added updates to its Copilot Studio software and is now previewing Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat, which “enables your agents to take advantage of the full functionalities of Copilot Studio within Copilot Chat,” the company said in a blog post.

The chat feature provides agents access to data sources across Azure services and can coordinate or handoff queries to other agents. It also allows the creation of agents based on specific actions or triggers.

Another feature allows users to “monitor their custom agents’ trends and performance with analytics,” Microsoft said. 

Last month, the company added a feature called “intelligent meeting recap” to Teams that summarizes meeting notes by speaker and topic and generates round-ups and summaries.

The company also recently released a Copilot app for Macs. The AI assistant can summarize, generate images, provide recommendations and create content. The app works only on Macs with an M-series chip and macOS 14.0 or later.Opera adds ‘Browser Operator,’ an AI agent, to its browser – ComputerworldRead More