Windows 11 gets more AI -Upgrades that we have not asked – while Copilot pops up on the desktop and Microsoft Store
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- Windows 11 gets more Copilot functionality
- An option ‘Ask Copilot’ arrives for the menu with the right mouse button on the desktop
- Copilot is also implemented in the Microsoft Store to give purchase advice (when testing)
If you expect to see more AI Windows 11Well, you would be on the money there, because it looks like Copilot crawls to another pair of places Microsoft‘s desktop os.
Neowin noticed it That is the latest version of the Copilot -app (1,25044,93.0) has planted a new choice to call up Copilot when working with certain files on your Windows 11 -office magazine.
So if you right click on a compatible file, this offers an option ‘Ask Copilot’ in the context menu (which contains common actions that you may want to follow with a certain file).
If you select that Copilot choice, the app is set for the AI assistant with relevant options that are available (if it is a document, for example, you will have the opportunity to summarize them there and then).
You may have seen that Microsoft has recently revealed Introduce AI promotions to control Explorer (the app that displays the contents of the folders on your PC). So this movement now seems to be happening.
Elsewhere, Microsoft is also planning to bring Copilot to the Microsoft store to advise it through the different goods.
The movement – which is still testing, According to Windows last – consists of adding a Copilot button to product pages in the store.
If you click on that button, a small dialog box appears with which you can ‘ask Copilot to this product’ with proposed questions that you may want to use, and a button ‘compare’ with which you can see how the app (or game) stacks to a rival piece of software.
However, the catch is that this integration in the Microsoft store is hardly seamless, because the entire store only throws your question for the Copilot app.
Analysis: smart or junk?
With the last change, the idea is to stimulate sales in the Microsoft store with Copilot, although integration is so easy not to help there.
It does not feel very advanced to ask for a comparison of two apps, and then easily presented with a question of the differences between them in the Copilot app. Yes, it is still a convenience, but it feels more awkward than the way it works now – but maybe Microsoft thinks about improving it along the line. Remember that this is still testing for the time being.
Moreover, not so many people ever enter the virtual aisles of the Microsoft store, and the larger step here is the wider implementation of Copilot as a right-wing, context-sensitive option in Windows 11.
With that concept – which was not unexpected, Microsoft previously announced that this is the course that follows – the problem is that it will be a love or hatred.
Those people who use Copilot will appreciate the convenience of extra ways to easily access the AI directly from files on the desktop. However, those who do not care about Copilot do not want an extra line of space in their right click menu, and will simply consider this as an extra mess.
That said, those haters have choices. NEOWIN points out that you can perform a register processing to remove this new functionality from the menu with the right brown, but I really would not recommend that. Not unless you are technically skilled and you want to keep the Copilot app, but not this extra option. (And even then I have to warn that messing around with the register can cause problems with your system, if not immediately, then possible along the line).
On the contrary, if you were the different terrants of Copilot that extends too far, that the Windows 11 interface extends, you simply remove the Copilot app completely. That will remove the AI from your context -sensitive menus (and taskbar, and everywhere else). Simply find the app in the menu Start, right -click on it and choose the Delete option to ban Copilot. Of course you can’t use the app at all, so that is not a good way to travel for those who may want to fire the AI occasionally.
Not everything is in no way bad about AI in Windows 11, and I have to note that there is a smart skill income, namely Extra powers to find and change settings in the operating system (Something that was promised by Microsoft from the start, but never delivered so far). I say delivered now, but this has not yet gone in testing, and it is only for Copilot+ PCs unfortunately (as is the case for another really useful AI-related tweak, Better Windows Search).
So that is another rather unhappy theme for some people, as well as AI who spread over more Windows 11 – all best functionality is reserved for Copilot+ PCs. This is because some functions the NPU They have on board for processing AI-Workloads on the actual device, instead of via the cloud.
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