windows 11 copilot

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Microsoft’s Copilot is no longer content to live in a sidebar — recent Windows 11 Insider builds tuck it into File Explorer and even add a floating “Share with Copilot” affordance to the taskbar, making the assistant a one‑click presence inside the places most users visit daily. The changes are...

Microsoft’s latest push to weave Copilot into the fabric of Windows 11 — now surfacing in File Explorer as right‑click AI actions, summaries, and image editing shortcuts — is less an incremental feature release than a strategic doubling‑down on an AI‑first operating system. That bet promises...

Microsoft’s push to embed Copilot deeper into Windows 11 — now reaching File Explorer with right‑click AI actions, contextual summaries, and editing tools — is not just a product update; it’s a strategic bet that Microsoft is doubling down on an AI‑first vision for the operating system. That bet...

Microsoft’s aggressive “Copilot everywhere” experiment in Windows 11 is cooling off: internal reporting and preview artifacts show the company is pausing and re-evaluating visible Copilot placements in lightweight first‑party apps, tightening enterprise controls, and re‑gating controversial...

Microsoft says it will dial back the “Copilot everywhere” push in Windows 11 — and that pause matters because it’s the clearest sign yet that user pushback over privacy, bloat, and design missteps has forced product teams to rethink how AI should appear on the desktop. Background Windows’...

Copilot in Windows 11 can now turn a line of text into a finished image in seconds — whether you call it from the standalone Copilot app, summon it inside Microsoft Word, or use the Designer/Photos/ Paint flows — and the process is fast, iterative, and surprisingly polished for quick...

Microsoft has finally given administrators a supported way to remove the consumer Microsoft Copilot app from managed Windows 11 devices — but the escape hatch is tightly controlled, limited to Insider Preview builds, and intentionally designed as a one‑time, surgical cleanup rather than a...

Microsoft has quietly given administrators a supported way to uninstall the consumer Copilot app from managed Windows 11 devices — but the escape hatch is narrowly scoped, condition‑gated, and best understood as a surgical cleanup tool rather than a fleet‑wide kill switch. Background Microsoft’s...

Microsoft has quietly given administrators a way to remove the consumer Copilot app from managed Windows 11 devices — but the escape hatch is deliberately narrow, while Excel’s new import functions push AI deeper into everyday spreadsheet work, promising big productivity gains alongside...

Microsoft has begun a staggered, OS‑level rollout of its AI assistant Copilot across Windows 11, turning what was once a sidebar experiment into a multimodal platform woven into the taskbar, Start menu, File Explorer and core update channels while other Windows 11 components—from Sticky Notes to...

Microsoft’s first Windows 11 Insider preview of 2026 quietly introduces a new, narrowly scoped tool for IT: a Group Policy called RemoveMicrosoftCopilotApp that can target and uninstall the consumer Microsoft Copilot app on managed devices — but only when a short list of strict conditions is...

Microsoft’s Copilot — the assistant Microsoft baked into Windows, Office, and a growing slate of business tools — registers almost no share of web AI visits, according to the first global AI traffic tracker of 2026, a finding that exposes a deeper measurement mismatch between what users do on...

Windows 11’s quietly escalating Copilot push has taken another visible step inside the operating system’s beating heart: File Explorer. Over the past few Insider preview builds, researchers and journalists have spotted non-functional UI hotspots, resource strings and new policies that together...

Microsoft’s latest Group Policy approach for removing Copilot from Windows 11 solves some immediate problems but creates new operational headaches: the policy frequently behaves like a one‑time uninstall rather than a durable block, leaves multiple Copilot entry points unaddressed, and pushes...

Microsoft has quietly given IT teams a supported, one‑time way to remove the consumer Microsoft Copilot app from managed Windows 11 devices — but the new Group Policy is deliberately narrow, gated by three strict conditions and designed as a surgical cleanup tool rather than a permanent ban...

A new, faint UI cue in a Windows 11 Insider build suggests Microsoft is testing a tighter Copilot tie‑in inside File Explorer — an invisible button that appears when you hover over a blank spot in the navigation bar and which, according to strings found in preview code, may be labeled "Chat with...

The first hour with a brand‑new Windows PC used to feel like unboxing possibility; now it too often feels like being guided through a sales funnel while someone quietly configures your telemetry and subscription preferences for you. Background Setting up a fresh Windows machine—what Microsoft...

Microsoft has positioned the Surface family — now billed as Surface Copilot+ PCs — squarely at the center of a new student productivity play, promising lightweight hardware, long battery life, pen-first note taking, and one-touch access to on-device AI that can summarize, translate, and organize...

The PC refresh your organisation schedules today will be remembered tomorrow not for a thinner bezel or a faster clock speed, but for whether it hardened your estate against the next generation of AI‑driven attacks and data‑loss scenarios — a security decision as consequential as an OS...