After an underwhelming launch in June, Microsoft is retooling Copilot and Copilot+ to make it match up to its competitors a bit more. It’s a mixed bag of an update though: It’s losing some of its initial, unique promises—there don’t seem to be any tools for adjusting your Windows settings included in the new version—even as it gains multimodal features (like ChatGPT) and AI generative fill (like Photoshop).
The Copilot chatbot gets a voice
In a series of videos and a blog post, Microsoft revealed that Copilot now comes with a new, more neutral look as well as the ability to chat over voice—and soon, it will also take input from video. It’s similar to what companies like Google are doing with Gemini Live, with a few Microsoft touches.
Most obvious are the cards that pop up when you open the new Copilot app or website, which resemble Microsoft’s live tiles UI from older …
