Microsoft makes Copilot less useful on new Copilot Plus PCs

Microsoft launched its scope of Copilot Plus PCs earlier this week, and they each travel equipped with the caller dedicated Copilot key connected the keyboard. It’s the archetypal large alteration to Windows keyboards successful 30 years, but each the cardinal does present is motorboat a Progressive Web App (PWA) mentation of Copilot.

The web app doesn’t adjacent integrate into Windows anymore similar the previous Copilot experience did since past year, truthful you can’t usage Copilot to power Windows 11 settings oregon person it docked arsenic a sidebar anymore. It’s virtually conscionable a PWA. Microsoft has adjacent removed the keyboard shortcut to Copilot connected these caller Copilot Plus PCs, truthful WINKEY + C does nothing.

I was hoping Microsoft would germinate the Copilot cardinal into thing that could beryllium utilized overmuch similar the Windows key, successful operation with different keys to motorboat shortcuts to apps oregon adjacent AI-powered features successful Windows. That would marque it acold much utile than conscionable launching a PWA.

Microsoft hasn’t explained wherefore it’s changed Copilot from a much integrated acquisition successful Windows to conscionable a web app that tin nary longer power Windows settings. “We’re besides evolving the Copilot acquisition connected Windows arsenic an app that volition beryllium pinned to the taskbar,” says the Windows Insider squad successful a recent blog post. “This enables users to get the benefits of a accepted app experience, including the quality to resize, move, and drawback the model – feedback we’ve heard from users passim the preview of Copilot successful Windows.”

Microsoft says it volition beryllium capable to “more agilely make and optimize” the Copilot acquisition arsenic a effect of these changes, truthful possibly we’ll spot immoderate aboriginal changes that marque this regression successful functionality marque sense. Until then, the caller Copilot cardinal volition regenerate the paper cardinal (application key) connected keyboards connected caller Copilot Plus PCs, and Microsoft has besides pinned the Copilot app to the taskbar truthful you don’t adjacent request to usage the dedicated cardinal anyway.