All Windows 11 PCs Will Get These Advanced Copilot AI Features
Microsoft saved its the most powerful AI tools for paying customers in the first phase of its AI evolution. Now, the company has announced a series of Copilot features available on all Windows 11 PCs, including Voice, Copilot Vision, and Copilot Actions.
Along with the update, Microsoft is launching an advertising campaign to expose people to these new features. The timing is no coincidence. Windows 10 support ended on October 14, and we’re about to see a wave of people upgrade to Windows 11; Microsoft seems determined to make Copilot’s advanced features available to as many people as possible and convince them that they are worth using.
It’s all about the voice
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“Hey, co-pilot.” That’s the name of the game for the voice-enabled AI assistant, now available on all Windows 11 computers. Whether you like it or not, Microsoft wants you to start talking to your computer. The company is introducing new Copilot features to all Windows 11 devices, with direct voice interaction with Copilot in apps and across the operating system. This feature has been available on smartphones for many years with varying degrees of success, as well as on Microsoft’s Copilot+ line of laptops.
“It’s been almost four decades since the PC changed the way you interact with it, which is primarily the mouse and keyboard,” says Yusuf Mehdi, director of consumer marketing at Microsoft. “But what if you could go beyond that and talk to it? In our minds, voice would become the third input mechanism to use with your PC.”
The push to speak directly to your PC contains data. Mehdi cited Microsoft’s own observations about how people interact with their PCs through voice, such as through dictation, note-taking, voice typing and transcriptions. Mehdi also says people use the Copilot app twice as much when using voice instead of typing, because of its ease of use. “People talk through their computers, they don’t talk has their computer or with their computer,” he says. “But we think that’s what’s really going to change a lot.”
