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Microsoft’s quietly relentless push to make Copilot an ever‑present assistant on Windows 11 just accelerated: demos and preview builds now show Copilot surfacing directly in the taskbar as an “Ask Copilot” entry with agent support, and adding inline Copilot affordances inside File Explorer so...

Microsoft’s Copilot is no longer just a chat window or an add‑on inside Office — it’s creeping into the places you use Windows every day: the taskbar and File Explorer. A recent set of demos and preview releases show Microsoft pushing Copilot deeper into Windows 11 with contextual file actions...

Microsoft’s Ignite 2025 update turns the Windows 11 taskbar into a front door for AI — introducing a one‑click “Ask Copilot” composer, taskbar‑visible AI agents, and deeper Copilot integration across File Explorer, search, voice, and local AI runtimes that shift Windows from a passive OS into an...

Microsoft’s latest Insider cumulative — shipped as KB5067115 and tied to Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.7051 — brings a significant shift in how people will discover and interact with their PC: an opt‑in Ask Copilot entry in the taskbar that fuses classic Windows Search with Copilot’s...

Microsoft is quietly rolling out a long‑requested convenience: a built‑in Shared audio (preview) for Windows 11 that can stream the same audio feed to two Bluetooth devices at once, leveraging the new Bluetooth Low Energy (LE Audio) stack and arriving first for Windows Insiders in Windows 11...

Microsoft appears to be experimenting with a major rethink of the Windows 11 taskbar — moving it from a passive launcher into an ambient, always-available AI hub that could surface context-aware assistance, multimodal helpers, and even agentic automations with a single click. Background /...

Ever heard of "Gemini Live," Google's ambitious take on conversational AI? Well, news suggests it might make its way to Windows 11 and Windows 10 desktops—right on the taskbar, thanks to Chrome! If this pans out, it could give Microsoft Copilot a run for its money. But there’s a lot to unpack...