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While we wait for the promised, yet delayed, new features for Windows 11, Microsoft is introducing some upgrades for Copilot Vision. New additions include the ability to ask Copilot to guide you through the app to complete a task or use Copilot Vision with more than one application at once. Now, when you use Copilot Vision, you can share a window and ask the AI to help you get something done. For example, you can give it access to the Settings app and ask how to turn on night light or share a Clipchamp window and ask how to add text to a video: Next, Copilot Vision can now work with two apps side-by-side and answer questions about both. For example, you can compare lists or documents: The new Copilot Vision updates are rolling out to Windows Insiders in version 1.25044.92 (or higher). The update itself is available in all channels, but Copilot Vision, including highlights and dual-app support, is only available in the United States. Also, the rollout is gradual, so not all insiders will get it right away. In case you missed it, a recent Copilot app update introduced a new entry in Windows 11's context menus, allowing you to quickly ask Copilot about certain files. However, you can turn that feature off by tweaking the system registry. Source Hope you enjoyed this news post. Thank you for appreciating my time and effort posting news every day for many years. News posts... 2023: 5,800+ | 2024: 5,700+ | 2025 (till end of April): 1,811 RIP Matrix | Farewell my friend

Last October, Microsoft announced Copilot Vision for the web. This feature allows users to share the web content they are viewing with Copilot and have their queries related to that content answered simply by speaking. Copilot Vision is like having an expert sitting next to you, looking at your screen and helping you along the way. Until now, Copilot Vision was only available to Copilot Pro subscribers. Today, Microsoft announced that Copilot Vision is now available to all Microsoft Edge users for free. It is important to note that Copilot Vision only works with select websites, including Amazon.com, Target.com, Wikipedia, and Tripadvisor. Specifically, it will not function on websites with paywalls or sensitive content. Copilot Vision is an entirely opt-in feature, and Microsoft does not store or use any data from Copilot Vision—whether audio, images, text, or conversations—for model training. Earlier this month, Microsoft announced the expansion of Copilot Vision to its mobile and Windows apps. Using the Copilot mobile app, users can point their phone's camera at their surroundings and request information, guidance, or ideas. Copilot can analyze both real-time video from the camera and photos stored in the phone’s gallery. The new native Copilot app for Windows also supports Copilot Vision, and this feature is currently available to Windows Insiders. Based on user feedback, Microsoft plans to expand access to more users. Once the feature becomes widely available, users will be able to share any browser or app window with Copilot and get their questions answered. To use Copilot Vision on Windows, users can click the glasses icon in the Copilot app's composer, select the browser window or app they want to share, and ask Copilot anything they want. Users running the latest version of Edge browser can check out the Copilot Vision experience here. Source Hope you enjoyed this news post. Thank you for appreciating my time and effort posting news every day for many years. News posts... 2023: 5,800+ | 2024: 5,700+ | 2025 (till end of March): 1,357 RIP Matrix | Farewell my friend

In early October, Microsoft announced Copilot Vision, a new feature that could harness the power of AI to help you complete various tasks by analyzing the content on the screen and providing the necessary assistance. Two months after the initial announcement, Microsoft is finally launching Copilot Vision in preview. When enabled, Copilot Vision "sees" and understands what is happening on the screen and its context. You can ask Copilot questions about the web page, and the assistant will answer and provide additional information. Copilot Vision is currently available in a limited preview to Copilot Pro subscribers in the United States. Also, the feature only works in the Microsoft Edge browser and only on certain websites. Microsoft says it wants to ensure Vision is a "useful and safe experience" from the get-go, but the company plans to expand the number of available websites as the testing scope broadens. Microsoft also stresses that Copilot Vision does not collect or store any user data, nor does it use it for model training. Once the session is over, Copilot Vision will delete all the data about what you said or what information you shared. Like the recently launched Recall (also in preview for Windows Insiders with Copilot+ PCs), Copilot Vision is an opt-in feature—it will not invoke unless you launch it. Additionally, Microsoft promises to prioritize copyright, privacy, and safety. It will not offer any information on paywalled websites, and it will not be able to take action on your behalf. The sole purpose of Copilot Vision is to "have a second set of eyes" and a helpful assistant who can tell you more about whatever you ask. You can access Copilot Vision Copilot Labs. Getting it to work requires a Copilot Pro subscription in the United States. You can learn more about Copilot Vision in a dedicated FAQ section on the official website. Source Hope you enjoyed this news post. Thank you for appreciating my time and effort posting news every day for many years. 2023: Over 5,800 news posts | 2024 (till end of November): 5,298 news posts RIP Matrix | Farewell my friend

Earlier this week, Microsoft launched a refreshed Copilot experience on the web, iOS, and Android. During the launch, Microsoft claimed that the new Copilot delivers more digestible, speedy, and fluent answers. They also stated that the refreshed Copilot can adapt to users with a warm tone and a distinct style. However, user feedback on the new Copilot has been generally negative. One Reddit user listed the following features missing from the new Copilot experience: It's important to note that these features were all working fine in the previous Copilot experience. In addition to these missing features, the new Copilot doesn't support landscape mode, forcing users to use the app only in portrait mode. Users can no longer select different models or tones (Precise, Creative, and Balanced). Furthermore, the new Copilot doesn't display math notations correctly in responses. The overall user experience has seemingly declined to the point that some people are now using Microsoft Edge mobile and the Bing app, which still have the old Copilot experience. It seems like Microsoft rushed the Copilot release before integrating all the features from the existing version. Hopefully, Microsoft can fix these issues quickly before users turn to competitors like Gemini and ChatGPT, which are receiving frequent major updates. Recently, Gemini added expanded support for Gemini Live in over 40 languages and introduced Google's most advanced Gemini 1.5 Pro model to its users. ChatGPT yesterday announced the launch of Canvas, a new UI for coding and writing tasks. With competitors like Gemini and ChatGPT rapidly improving, Microsoft needs to address these issues quickly to remain competitive in the AI assistant market. Source RIP Matrix | Farewell my friend Hope you enjoyed this news post. Thank you for appreciating my time and effort posting news every day for many years. 2023: Over 5,800 news posts | 2024 (till end of September): 4,292 news posts

Microsoft's latest update for its Copilot assistant has left a bad taste in users' screens and responses. What you need to know Microsoft recently released a new update for Copilot that features a "warm and inviting" user interface, an immersive chat experience, and more. As the update rolls out to more users, several complaints have surfaced on social media about the overhauled experience, including a degraded user experience, low-quality responses, and more. Windows Central has contacted Microsoft to comment on the highlighted issues. As reported earlier this week, Microsoft pushed a massive update to its Copilot AI assistant, including next-gen AI features like Copilot Vision, which can browse the web in Edge, and new experiences that blur AI and human interaction. The update also overhauled Copilot, with a new interface designed to be "warm and inviting" and offering an immersive chat experience. It's worth noting that some of these features are buried behind Microsoft's Copilot Pro service, making it paramount to have the $20 subscription plan to access them. The new Copilot UI running in the Windows 11 app (2024). (Image credit: Daniel Rubino) It's possible that some users haven't accessed the overhauled Copilot experience, which is rolling out in waves on Windows, iOS, Android, and the web. Earlier this year, Microsoft announced that it was halting the shipping of new experiences to Copilot and allocating more time and resources to improving existing ones. However, Microsoft has seemingly gotten over the hump, having recently debuted new experiences, including Copilot Pages and Copilot agents. However, multiple Copilot users have taken to social media to express their frustrations over the newly updated Copilot. Microsoft's new Copilot experience is making all the wrong impressions Microsoft Copilot app is being displayed on a smartphone (Image credit: Getty Images | NurPhoto) According to the comments highlighted in the r/CopilotPro subreddit on Reddit, Copilot's new user interface isn't a welcomed change. As highlighted by one of the aggrieved users: "Is it just me or do y'all hate the new copilot update? The original layout was so good and the original voice was really good, the new update is so confusing and the new voices are annoying. I used to use copilot for everything, and im talking everything. Until they bring back the old version i will be going back to ChatGPT." Interestingly, Microsoft insiders revealed that the top complaint about Copilot is that it does not work as well as ChatGPT. Microsoft has countered this feedback by claiming users aren't leveraging Copilot's capabilities as intended, hence the disparity. The tech giant shifted the blame to a lack of proper prompt engineering skills, but it recently launched Copilot Academy to address some of these issues. Another user indicated that Copilot's experience "went from 10 to 0 overnight" after the latest update shipped. The user highlighted the following as some of the annoyances with the update: "Answers aren't hyperlinked with sources anymore. You can't change languages in-app anymore. You can't set two languages to talk or ask things anymore. You can't switch from creative to precise to moderate modes anymore. The voice to text icon doesn't work at all. Answers are dumber." Major tech corporations like OpenAI and Microsoft have found themselves in the corridors of justice, battling copyright infringement issues. Publishers and authors have blatantly accused these companies of ripping off their work without authorization, compensation, or attribution. Ironically, an AI artist recently complained to the US Copyright Office after reportedly losing millions of dollars from people ripping off his AI-generated work. The same artist used AI to generate paintings that saw him win a contest in Colorado in 2022. Other competitors deemed his creations as unconventional, but the artists indicated: "I'm not going to apologize for it. I won, and I didn't break any rules. This isn't going to stop. Art is dead, dude. It's over. AI won. Humans lost." In the artist's submissions via his lawyers, the US Copyright Office's reluctance to register his AI-generated collection as copyrighted content has left him with the shorter end of the stick, allowing repeated stealing of his work without attribution or compensation. The artist further claims prompt engineering and scene-selecting skills should be considered creative input or human authorship. As you may know, with the emergence and adoption of AI, it's becoming increasingly difficult to draw the line between copyrighted content and AI-generated work, especially as AI models become more capable. AI tools like ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot heavily rely on internet sources for training, which continues to be a pressure point for the companies behind them and publishers. Even OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admitted developing tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted content is impossible. He further supported his claims by indicating copyright law doesn't prohibit using copyrighted content to train AI models. At least, it's not all bad. As pointed out by one Reddit user, Microsoft has seemingly fixed Copilot's image input feature: "If you'd used the Image input feature in both the old Copilot and ChatGPT, it became very clear very quickly that the Images were not being fed straight to the model like ChatGPT resulting in a pretty terrible implementation where it would completely hallucinate/fail to describe images ChatGPT nailed. With the revamp, this is gone and Image Input is working like it should now." These are some of the highlighted issues with Copilot's new update. Have you encountered problems with the refreshed Copilot UI, and how is the new user experience in general? Windows Central has reached out to Microsoft for comment about old features that are coming back to the new Copilot experience. We'll keep you posted on new developments as they roll out. Source RIP Matrix | Farewell my friend Hope you enjoyed this news post. 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Microsoft brings two new opt-in trial features to some users of its Copilot AI-assistant. On Monday, Microsoft unveiled updates to its consumer AI assistant Copilot, introducing two new experimental features for a limited group of $20/month Copilot Pro subscribers: Copilot Labs and Copilot Vision. Labs integrates OpenAI's latest o1 "reasoning" model, and Vision allows Copilot to see what you're browsing in Edge. Microsoft says Copilot Labs will serve as a testing ground for Microsoft's latest AI tools before they see wider release. The company describes it as offering "a glimpse into 'work-in-progress' projects." The first feature available in Labs is called "Think Deeper," and it uses step-by-step processing to solve more complex problems than the regular Copilot. Think Deeper is Microsoft's version of OpenAI's new o1-preview and o1-mini AI models, and it has so far rolled out to some Copilot Pro users in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the US. Copilot Vision is an entirely different beast. The new feature aims to give the AI assistant a visual window into what you're doing within the Microsoft Edge browser. When enabled, Copilot can "understand the page you're viewing and answer questions about its content," according to Microsoft. The company positions Copilot Vision as a way to provide more natural interactions and task assistance beyond text-based prompts, but it will likely raise privacy concerns. As a result, Microsoft says that Copilot Vision is entirely opt-in and that no audio, images, text, or conversations from Vision will be stored or used for training. The company is also initially limiting Vision's use to a pre-approved list of websites, blocking it on paywalled and sensitive content. The rollout of these features appears gradual, with Microsoft noting that it wants to balance "pioneering features and a deep sense of responsibility." The company said it will be "listening carefully" to user feedback as it expands access to the new capabilities. Microsoft has not provided a timeline for wider availability of either feature. Mustafa Suleyman, chief executive of Microsoft AI, told Reuters that he sees Copilot as an "ever-present confidant" that could potentially learn from users' various Microsoft-connected devices and documents, with permission. He also mentioned that Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has shown particular interest in Copilot's potential to read and parse emails. But judging by the visceral reaction to Microsoft's Recall feature, which keeps a record of everything you do on your PC so an AI model can recall it later, privacy-sensitive users may not appreciate having an AI assistant monitor their activities—especially if those features send user data to the cloud for processing. Source RIP Matrix | Farewell my friend Hope you enjoyed this news post. Thank you for appreciating my time and effort posting news every day for many years. 2023: Over 5,800 news posts | 2024 (till end of September): 4,292 news posts

Copilot Vision will look at the web alongside you to help and assist, if you let it. What you need to know Microsoft is launching an experimental new Copilot feature called Copilot Vision that can browse the web in Edge alongside you. With permission, Copilot Vision will be able to see the same webpages you do, and offer advice or suggestions based on real-time conversations. You can ask it for help with shopping or vent to it over a headline or story you've been reading. Microsoft has unveiled a wild new feature coming to the new Copilot called Copilot Vision that enables it to browse the web alongside you to help you make decisions or to be there as a friend simply to chat with as you read the news or shop for items. The feature is exclusive to Copilot Pro subscribers via Microsoft's new experimental "Copilot Labs" preview program, and it might be the craziest example of today's newly announced Copilot capabilities. With the new Copilot, Microsoft wants you to treat it more like a friend who's available to help you out and less like a tool. Copilot Vision is a clear example of this, where Copilot can sit in the Edge browser and view the same web pages you do. This is an optional feature that you must first activate, but when you do, Copilot will be able to offer advice, opinions, and help based on whatever you ask of it while looking at the web. Here's how Microsoft describes Copilot Vision: "Copilot sits within Microsoft Edge. If you want it to, it can understand the page you’re viewing and answer questions about its content. It can suggest next steps, answer questions, help navigate whatever it is you want to do and assist with tasks. All the while you simply speak it to in natural language." A good example of this is looking for shoes to buy. You can enable Copilot Vision and tell it that you're looking to buy new red shoes. Copilot can offer advice on where to look for the best deals and even tell you if it thinks the shoes you're tempted to choose actually look good. You can also use it as something to talk to as you read the news or social media. Microsoft says Copilot Vision cannot directly interact with the web, but it can guide you on where to click if you're looking for something on a website that you've struggled to find. It also won't work on paywalled sites, and in this initial preview, it only works on a curated list of websites. The company intends to roll this out more widely in the coming months. It's important to stress that Copilot Vision is an optional feature that isn't enabled by default and is only activated if you select it. When enabled, all the data it processes is handled on-device and promptly deleted after you are done. It doesn't get sent to Microsoft or third parties for training. Source RIP Matrix | Farewell my friend Hope you enjoyed this news post. Thank you for appreciating my time and effort posting news every day for many years. 2023: Over 5,800 news posts | 2024 (till end of September): 4,292 news posts

Today, Microsoft announced a new Copilot Labs feature called Copilot Vision. Copilot Labs is a new feature where Microsoft will test new AI features with a small subset of users to gather feedback and improve them. Copilot Vision is similar to the ChatGPT video capabilities that OpenAI demoed earlier this year. Copilot Vision provides users with real-time assistance based on their screen content. Right now, Copilot Vision works only inside Microsoft Edge. Once enabled, when you visit a supported website, you can start asking Copilot questions regarding the content on the page as you browse. Copilot Vision can also suggest the next steps and assist with the task at hand. You can even speak your queries naturally, eliminating the need to type. Think of Copilot Vision as an expert sitting next to you, looking at your screen to help you along the way. Microsoft designed Copilot Vision with privacy as a core principle. Copilot Vision is an entirely opt-in feature, enabled only when users explicitly choose to do so. Microsoft does not store or use any data from Copilot Vision (audio, images, text, or conversations) for model training. Once your Vision session is over, all the data will be permanently deleted. Additionally, Copilot Vision will not work on websites with paywalls or sensitive content. During this preview phase, Microsoft is enabling Copilot Vision only on a pre-approved list of websites. Microsoft will expand Copilot Vision to more websites in the future, prioritizing safety and responsibility. Finally, it is important to note that Copilot Vision is not an agent. It cannot take actions on your behalf; instead, it can only answer questions throughout your browsing experience. Copilot Vision is now rolling out to a subset of Copilot Pro users in the United States. It has the potential to revolutionize how we interact with the web, providing a more intuitive and helpful browsing experience. As Microsoft continues to develop and expand this feature, we can expect an even more useful Copilot experience in the future. Source RIP Matrix | Farewell my friend Hope you enjoyed this news post. Thank you for appreciating my time and effort posting news every day for many years. 2023: Over 5,800 news posts | 2024 (till end of September): 4,292 news posts