Windows 11 is adding another Copilot button nobody asked for

Microsoft quietly scraps plans to bring Copilot to notifications and Settings on Windows 11 as it moves to reduce AI bloat across the OS

Originally announced in 2024, Microsoft's plan to integrate Copilot across various areas of the Windows 11 shell has been shelved as the company reevaluates its AI approach in the OS.

Microsoft starts removing Copilot buttons from Windows 11 apps

The underlying AI features are here to stay, though

Talking to Windows’ Copilot AI makes a computer feel incompetent

Hey Copilot, are you useful yet?

Microsoft says Copilot is for entertainment purposes only, not serious use — firm pushing AI hard to consumers and businesses tells users not to rely on it for important advice

These might be boilerplate disclaimers, but they kind of contradict the company's ads and marketing.

Microsoft Copilot gets long-term memory, group chats, and new ‘Mico’ persona in latest update

Microsoft is rolling out a series of updates to its consumer Copilot AI assistant, including shared group chats, long-term memory, and an optional visual persona named Mico.

Bastian Greshake Tzovaras (@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social)

It's great that a class of tool that by its very design is an unfixable security issue is forced into everything: «This works often enough that Måløy reported this to Microsoft as a security hole in March. He gave them a 90-day reporting window, Microsoft extended that twice to a total of 144 days, and they still didn’t have a solid fix. So Måløy posted about the hole on July 28th.» Copilot prompt injection goes viral in your documents https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/08/03/copilot-prompt-injection-goes-viral-in-your-documents/

M365 Copilot fails to up productivity in UK government trial

: AI tech shows promise writing emails or summarizing meetings. Don't bother with anything more complex

Copilot Cowork is now generally available | Microsoft 365 Blog

Copilot Cowork is now generally available worldwide, bringing secure, AI-powered automation for complex enterprise tasks in Microsoft 365.

Privacy apps Signal, Brave, and AdGuard push back against Windows Recall

Signal was one of the first apps to block Windows Recall from capturing screenshots of its interface, and more developers have since followed suit. This week, both...

Purpose of the "Windows" lock key

Nobody clicks your share buttons — Ankur Sethi

I've always wondered if anyone actually used the social sharing buttons embedded on news sites and (some) WordPress blogs.

Copilot memory early access for Pro and Pro+ - GitHub Changelog

Copilot memory is now available in public preview for GitHub Copilot Pro and Pro+ users, with support in Copilot coding agent and Copilot code review. Copilot memory Copilot memory enables…

updated feature: Window Shape API