As the blurb in the Copilot side panel observes, it’s AI-powered, and “surprises and mistakes are possible”. However, we’ve got a feeling this will take a lot of internal testing before it gets to Windows Insiders, somehow. That’s another hint that things are coming into place for Copilot’s release to be tested in preview. That was provided by regular Twitter-based leaker Albacore, who pointed out that recent Windows 11 preview builds in the Dev channel have a Windows Copilot button (hidden – and when enabled, it doesn’t do anything, mind). That said, we’ve caught not only this sighting of Copilot from Windows Latest, but there was another one at the weekend. Now, June is almost over, and it seems unlikely that a preview build is going to show up later this week with a functional Copilot doing its query answering and settings manipulating stuff.

Because we’ve not heard anything from Microsoft since the initial announcement of the AI, when we were told that it’d be in testing in June. Okay, so while this glimpse of Microsoft’s AI is still very much early work, and not very exciting, it’s a useful hint that Copilot is ticking along progress-wise. However, Windows Latest does observe that Microsoft will use in-house plug-ins to customize the Bing Chat experience in Windows 11, and that Copilot will utilize a system of “action cards” to detect how you are using the OS, and offer up intelligent suggestions based on that. We don’t see much here, and nothing of the really cool tricks that Copilot will eventually be able to do (such as turning on multiple features in one fell swoop to help with a certain aim like ‘being more productive’, or summarizing content to go in an email, right there in the app, in-line).

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