In September 2023, Microsoft launched Copilot for Windows 11. Since then, the company has been consistently adding new features to the AI-powered chatbot for the platform to make it better and offer an improved user experience. However, Microsoft has now announced that it is pumping the brakes on adding new features to Copilot for Windows 11 to refine the existing ones based on user feedback.
Last week, Microsoft released Build 22635.3570 of Windows 11 for Beta Channel, which brings many changes. In the changelog for the new version of the operating system, the company says:
“Over the last few months, we’ve been trying out different experiences for Copilot in Windows (Preview) with Windows Insiders across the Canary, Dev, and Beta Channels. Some of these experiences include the ability for Copilot in Windows to act like a normal application window and the taskbar icon animating to indicate that Copilot can help when you copy text or images. We have decided to pause the rollouts of these experiences to further refine them based on user feedback. Copilot in Windows will continue to work as expected while we continue to evolve new ideas with Windows Insiders.”
The latest announcement from Microsoft makes it look like the features the company recently added to Copilot for Windows 11 aren’t good and need a lot of improvements. However, that’s not the case at all. So, it is surprising to see why the company has taken the decision. That being said, it is not bad for a brand to improve existing features in software before bringing new ones. This step from Microsoft should help OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini gain market share.
