Microsoft offered its first look in May at Windows Copilot, an AI-powered assistant that appears to be a one-stop shop for managing all sorts of tasks within Windows 11. Microsoft showed Windows Copilot standing in for Bing Chat, the AI chatbot that’s rivaled OpenAI’s ChatGPT as the main AI assistant of the Web. But Windows Copilot appears to be much more, as a concierge of sorts for everything your PC and its apps can do. There’s a real question, however, of what class of hardware Windows Copilot will demand—and in May Microsoft offered the first hints of how it may manage the diversity of PCs that wish to run it.
Windows Copilot, at least at that first glimpse, appears