Copilot
The option turns Copilot into your portal to the web, with each new tab opening a chat window where you can either ask a question, conduct a search, or enter a URL.
Copilot Mode ties Microsoft’s AI assistant more closely to Edge, as it combines AI-generated responses, search results, and navigation into one window. It also draws from all of your tabs — not just the one you’re on — allowing you to ask Copilot to summarize the information in all of your open windows or compare products in each one.
Though Microsoft previously launched Copilot Mode as an experimental feature, it’s now available for everyone to try, alongside a few new features available in a limited preview. That includes an agentic Copilot Actions feature that can do things like unsubscribe from marketing emails or book a reservation on your behalf.
Just like the other AI browsers out there, Copilot’s agentic features just aren’t totally reliable yet. Copilot displays a warning before taking action that says the tool is “intended for research and evaluation purposes” and “can make mistakes.”
Gaming Copilot screenshots gameplay, extracts text, and sends the data to undocumented Microsoft Azure endpoints.
His report added a critical detail: network traffic persists even when the Game Bar widget is closed, suggesting the data collection is not limited to active use.
According to Microsoft, an "active Copilot user" is one who "performed an intentional action for an AI-powered capability in Copilot within Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat (work), Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, or Loop."
It makes sense to track Copilot use – those licenses aren't cheap – but benchmarking adoption may be seen by some as a step too far for something still struggling to prove its worth, especially with the risk of turning it into a leaderboard game.
Microsoft is trying to opt its home users of Office 365 into Copilot by stealth. But businesses just aren’t buying Copilot. By August, just 1.81% of the 440 million Microsoft 365 subscribers had paid for Copilot — just under 8 million enterprise customers. [Where’s Your Ed At]
Microsoft is now telling home users to bring their home license into the office and use it at work — “even if their work account doesn’t have a Copilot license.” [Microsoft]