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🗓️ 1 July 2023
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For more than four decades, since the 1980s, pointing and clicking has been the primary method of using a personal computer. What if that changed to simply thinking, typing and doing? That's one promise of AI. Rather than remembering the keyboard shortcut to take a screenshot, or the setting to shift the screen into dark mode, you could just tell the computer what you want it to do in natural language.
Microsoft is moving in this direction with the development of Windows Copilot, an adaptation of its Open AI-powered Bing search chatbot integrated directly into the operating system, showing as a persistent sidebar once activated by users via a new taskbar button.
This week, the company started to give users in the Windows Insider preview program a very early look at Windows Copilot.
On this episode of the GeekWire Podcast, we're featuring a conversation with Aaron Woodman, the Windows vice president of marketing, recorded shortly after Windows Copilot was unveiled a few weeks ago.
Here is the full video of Windows Central's hands-on with the Windows Insider early preview of Windows Copilot, as highlighted in the intro to this episode.
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0:00.0 | For more than four decades since the 1980s, |
0:03.4 | pointing and clicking has been the primary method of using a personal computer. |
0:08.2 | Meet the Microsoft Mouse Line. |
0:10.3 | There's a mouse for everyone, |
0:11.6 | whether you're an expert or first-time buyer. |
0:14.0 | Let's start with the basics. |
0:16.0 | Of course, the traditional computer mouse is not going away anytime soon, |
0:20.0 | but what if it could be augmented more frequently by simply thinking and typing rather than hunting around on your computer for some sort of setting or other solution to whatever you're trying to do. |
0:31.0 | That's one promise of AI. Rather than remembering the keyboard |
0:34.7 | shortcut to take a screenshot or the setting to shift the screen into dark |
0:38.6 | mode, for example, you could just tell the computer what you wanted to do in natural language. |
0:44.6 | That at least is what Microsoft is promising with the development of Windows Co-Pilot. |
0:49.5 | It's an adaptation of its open AI-powered Bing Search chatbot that will be integrated directly |
0:55.0 | into the operating system showing as a persistent sidebar once it's activated by users |
1:00.4 | via a new taskbar button. |
1:02.4 | Next we're bringing the co-pilot to the biggest canvas of all, |
1:07.8 | Windows. |
1:09.5 | I think that this is going to make every user a power user of Windows. |
1:14.0 | That's Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, unveiling Windows Co-Pilot in late May at the company's |
1:19.5 | Build Developer Conference. Here's how it was explained by Pano's Pane, |
1:24.4 | the Microsoft Chief Product Officer for Windows and Devices. |
1:28.2 | I need to cast my screen to the TV. Right, that's a power user move on Windows. Not anymore. Just |
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