Microsoft says that checks of a controversial new Home windows 11 characteristic that mechanically opens the AI-powered Copilot assistant after Home windows begins are restricted to methods with 27-inch shows.
For now, the choice additionally requires enrolling within the firm’s Home windows Insider program because the change is presently being examined within the Home windows 11 Insider Preview Construct 23615, launched final Thursday within the Dev Channel.
“We try out opening Copilot mechanically when Home windows begins on widescreen units with some Home windows Insiders within the Dev Channel. This may be managed through Settings > Personalization > Copilot,” Microsoft mentioned final week.
On condition that this alteration is rolling out in phases, not all Insiders within the Dev Channel will instantly see Copilot launching by itself.
“We’re making an attempt this expertise out on units which have minimal diagonal display dimension of 27″ and pixel width of 1920 pixels and restricted to main show screens in multi-monitor eventualities,” the corporate’s Home windows Insider staff clarified in the present day after final week’s announcement irked many customers who had been already aggravated by Redmond’s aggressive AI push in latest months.
“As a reminder, we usually check out completely different experiences with Home windows Insiders within the Dev Channel that will not ever ship, and others might present up in future Home windows releases once they’re prepared.”
Whereas there are not any statistics on the variety of Home windows units with 27″ shows and with a width of no less than 1920 pixels, Steam’s December 2023 {hardware} survey says that over 75% of players are utilizing 1920 x 1080 and 2560 x 1440 resolutions (though there isn’t any info on their screens’ sizes in inches).
Because it launched its new AI chat-powered Bing final January and added it to the Home windows 11 taskbar one month later, Microsoft has slowly injected AI tech into as many Home windows apps and options as attainable, together with Paint and the soon-out-of-support Home windows 10 OS.
Not even the Notepad textual content editor will escape this incessant AI assault since Microsoft is internally testing an AI-powered textual content era device dubbed CoWriter.
Copilot for Home windows is now out there for preview to Home windows Insiders in North America, the UK, and choose areas of Asia and South America. Microsoft is planning to roll it out to extra markets over time.
