Microsoft tests compact, native version of Windows Copilot app Hallie Frederick | usagoldmines.com

Microsoft continues to check out new methods of showcasing Copilot inside Home windows. The newest? A compact view that may be opened with the Alt+House shortcut.

Microsoft is touting the brand new Copilot app as a “native” app, not simply the Progressive Internet App (PWA) that Microsoft had remodeled Copilot into earlier this yr. However there’s no indication that Copilot will run regionally in your PC, and Home windows Central discovered that the app nonetheless simply calls Microsoft’s Copilot web site.

So what’s new? Not a lot. The brand new Copilot opens as a extra compact view, and will be opened utilizing the Alt+House shortcut. (As Microsoft notes, nonetheless, different apps might use the Alt+House shortcut, too, so Microsoft will merely assign the shortcut to no matter app launched first and is working within the background when the shortcut was used.) You possibly can then develop Copilot to a bigger measurement utilizing one other button.

It’s a really minor change, though making Copilot a local software might pave the way in which for future innovation. Let’s hope so.

Microsoft is pushing out the brand new model of Copilot to Home windows Insiders proper now.