Copilot for Home windows goes by a renovation designed to make Microsoft’s AI assistant simpler to entry and use. At present obtainable by a sidebar panel, Copilot will turn into an everyday resizable and movable Home windows app, Microsoft revealed in a weblog put up revealed Wednesday.
With the transformation, Copilot will probably be triggered by an icon that seems in the course of the Taskbar for higher visibility. And since it is going to be an everyday Home windows app, you’ll transfer, resize, and snap its window to extra successfully use it and multitask with different objects on the display screen.
At present, the Copilot icon is squirreled to the far proper of the System Tray, making it troublesome to search out. After you click on the icon, Copilot seems as a static and unmovable sidebar that is a wrestle to navigate and juggle amid open apps and home windows.
And by default, should you click on anyplace else on the display screen, the sidebar disappears. The one methods you’ll be able to carry out are to vary the width of the sidebar and present it aspect by aspect with one other window so it stays seen.
“To combine extra seamlessly into on a regular basis workflows and ship AI-powered help in a extra handy method, we’re evolving Copilot in Home windows right into a standalone software,” Microsoft mentioned in its weblog put up. “With this modification, customers of Copilot will get the advantages of a conventional app expertise comparable to resizing, snapping, and shifting the window.”
Customers utilizing Copilot+ PCs, which Microsoft unveiled earlier this week at its Construct convention, will have the ability to launch Copilot with a single click on of the Copilot key on their keyboard. Plus, subscribers of Copilot for Microsoft 365 will nonetheless have the ability to keep separate “net” and “work” tabs to raised defend their knowledge.
Microsoft did not give a selected ETA for the brand new Copilot for Home windows app’s availability. Within the weblog put up, the corporate mentioned solely that it is taking a phased and measured strategy to this rollout. Nonetheless, the adjustments are already popping up within the newest Home windows 11 Insider 26080 construct for the Canary channel.
“We’re starting to roll out an up to date Copilot in Home windows expertise that provides the power to change between the prevailing ‘docked’ habits that attaches Copilot to the aspect of your desktop, and a brand new mode the place it acts like a standard software window which you’ll resize and transfer round your display screen,” Microsoft mentioned in its launch notes for the construct.
The brand new construct is a part of the Home windows 11 2024 Replace, which is due for basic launch within the second half of 2024.