According to a new report from Windows Central, Microsoft could soon add Copilot to Windows 10 with a system update. Microsoft Copilot is a virtual assistant powered by generative artificial intelligence (GenAI). The company unveiled Copilot in March of this year and added it to Windows 11 with the 23H2 update which was rolled out last month.
The publication claims that with the upcoming update, Windows 10 will get a Copilot button on the taskbar, and clicking on it will open the “exact same Copilot sidebar experience found on Windows 11.” Reportedly, Copilot on Windows 10 will offer the same experience and capabilities as it does on Windows 11. Additionally, plugins for Copilot across both versions of the operating system will be the same.
This is why Microsoft wants to add Copilot to Windows 10
Reportedly, Windows 11 has 400 million active users at the moment, whereas, Windows 10 has 1 billion users. That means if Copilot is limited to Windows 11, it will only have 400 million users at the maximum. However, if it is expanded to Windows 10, it will get 1 billion additional users, which would make a total of 1.4 billion users.
According to Windows Central, that’s why Microsoft wants to add Copilot to Windows 10, to increase the user base. Expanding the user base could have many benefits. Reportedly, showing developers that Copilot has 1.4 billion users will make it easier for Microsoft to ask them to build plugins for the virtual assistant.
What can Copilot do?
Copilot can answer queries and perform many tasks, including removing background from an image, playing songs on a third-party application, organizing windows on your screen, or summarizing an article that you are reading. Recently, xAI, a startup founded by Elon Musk, introduced Grok, a chatbot powered by GenAI. Samsung too has developed its own Generative AI model, Gauss, and it is expected to arrive in the Galaxy S24 series.
