Microsoft is Bringing its Copilot Assistant to Windows 10
- Laurent Giret
- Nov 16, 2023
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Copilot for Windows, Microsoft’s new AI assistant that’s now available on Windows 11 with the November Patch Tuesday update is coming soon to Windows 10. Copilot will soon be available for Windows 10 Insiders on the Release Preview Channel, and the public rollout will take place over the next couple of months.
On Windows 10, the AI assistant will appear as a shortcut on the right side of the taskbar. Clicking this Copilot shortcut will open a chat window on the right side of the desktop, just like it works on Windows 11. However, Microsoft explained that Copilot on Windows 10 will have some limitations at launch.
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“Not all Copilot functionality for Windows 11 will initially be available for Windows 10,” the company explained today. “The core experience of discovering and creating content is the same, but employees will not be able to take actions such as customize preferences and settings or open applications by using simple commands in this initial release.”
Microsoft will make Copilot on Windows 10 available via a Controlled Feature Rollout (CFR). Windows 10 Insiders on the Release Preview Channel will need to turn on the “Get the latest updates as soon as they’re available” setting in Windows Update to get access to it. This toggle is coming in the Windows 10 Insider build 19045.3754 that Microsoft is releasing today.
However, Copilot won’t be enabled by default on managed Windows 10 Pro devices and PCs running the Enterprise and Education editions of the OS. Moreover, just like on Windows 11, Copilot on Windows 10 will only be available in select markets including North America and parts of Asia and South America.
Windows 10 remains the most popular version of Windows with approximately a billion users, so it makes sense for Microsoft to bring its new AI assistant to these users. Even though Windows 10 will go out of support in 2025, Microsoft said today that it wants to “make generative AI in Windows broadly available so all organizations and individuals can take advantage of this progress in productivity and creativity.”