Copilot for Home windows goes by a redesign to make Microsoft’s AI assistant simpler to entry and use. At present accessible by a sidebar panel, Copilot will quickly change into an everyday resizable and movable Home windows app, Microsoft revealed in a weblog publish on Wednesday.
After the transformation, you will set off Copilot by an icon in the midst of the Taskbar. Since it will likely be an everyday Home windows app, you can transfer, resize, and snap its window to extra successfully use it and multitask with different home windows on the display screen.
After you click on the icon, Copilot presently seems as a static and unmovable sidebar that is a battle to navigate and juggle amid open apps and home windows. By default, when you click on anyplace else on the display screen, the sidebar disappears. The one methods you’ll be able to carry out are to alter the width of the sidebar and present it facet by facet 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 utility,” Microsoft stated in its weblog publish. “With this variation, customers of Copilot will get the advantages of a conventional app expertise akin to resizing, snapping, and transferring the window.”
Shoppers utilizing Copilot+ PCs, which Microsoft unveiled earlier this week at its Construct convention, will be capable of launch Copilot with a single click on of the Copilot key on their keyboard. Plus, Copilot for Microsoft 365 subscribers will nonetheless be capable of keep separate “internet” and “work” tabs to raised shield their knowledge.
Microsoft did not give a particular ETA for the brand new Copilot for Home windows app’s availability. Within the weblog publish, the corporate stated solely that it is taking a phased and measured strategy to this rollout. Certainly, the modifications are already popping up within the newest construct, Home windows 11 Insider 26080, accessible within 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’ conduct that attaches Copilot to the facet of your desktop, and a brand new mode the place it acts like a traditional utility window which you’ll be able to resize and transfer round your display screen,” Microsoft stated 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 common launch in H2 2024.
