Windows Copilot criticized: just a cosmetic change for the Edge browser

News on July 1st, Microsoft released the latest Windows 11 Build 23493 preview update yesterday, which introduced the much-anticipated Windows Copilot function. According to foreign media Windows Central, the first version of this feature was considered very crude. In fact, it was just an extension of Bing. The Chat interface is embedded in a sidebar and still relies on the Edge browser to provide answers and execute commands.

As far as the editor understands, Windows Copilot is a new icon button on the taskbar. After the user clicks the button, a sidebar interface will pop up on the right side of the screen, showing the familiar Bing Chat chat interface, where users can ask questions or initiate related commands. However, in fact Windows Copilot is not deeply integrated with the system and still answers user questions by calling the Edge browser.

Windows Copilot’s sidebar is not a native Windows interface, but an Edge browser disguised as a Windows sidebar. This means that every time you open Windows When Copilot, the Edge browser needs to be running in the background. Moreover, Windows Copilot is essentially a browser, so users cannot use the feature offline.

Even when connected to the Internet, Windows Copilot's functionality is also very limited. While it can search online resources and perform some creative tasks, some options like configuring Windows settings demonstrated at the Build conference were not implemented.

The Windows 11 Build 23493 preview update released by Microsoft introduces the highly anticipated Windows Copilot feature. However, this feature is currently disabled by foreign media Windows Central blamed it for being a crude first version and essentially just embedding the Bing Chat interface into an Edge browser disguised as a Windows sidebar. Every time you open Windows When Copilot, users need to ensure that the Edge browser is running in the background, and this feature cannot be used offline. Although connected to the Internet, Windows Copilot has the ability to search online resources and perform some creative tasks, but some options demonstrated at the Build conference, such as configuring Windows settings, were not implemented.

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