Microsoft launches 'Hey Copilot' voice assistant and autonomous agents for all Windows 11 PCs
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Microsoft expands Windows 11 with Copilot featuresVoice and Vision are available worldwide; Copilot Actions is planned first as an experimental feature for Windows Insiders.
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- Windows 11 users can enable the “Hey Copilot” wake word with one click starting this week.
- Copilot Vision is expanding worldwide with text input and can analyze complete PowerPoint presentations and Excel spreadsheets.
- Copilot Actions is planned first for Windows Insiders in Copilot Labs as an experimental feature.
- Copilot Actions is disabled by default, while users can pause it, take control, or disable it at any time.
We're taking kind of a bold view of it. We really feel that the vision that we have is, let's rewrite the entire operating system around AI and build essentially what becomes truly the AI PC,— Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft's Executive Vice President and Consumer Chief Marketing Officer, said at a press conference last week.
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