Microsoft plans to allow Windows 11 users to customize the Copilot key, which is now available on new laptops and keyboards. The Copilot button is set by default to launch Microsoft’s Copilot app on Windows 11, but the company is currently testing the ability to use the button to launch other apps instead.
The new beta version of Windows 11 includes customization changes that are available to testers starting today. “You can choose to have the Copilot key launch an app that is MSIX packaged and signed, thus indicating the app meets security and privacy requirements to keep customers safe,” explains the Windows Insider team in a blog post. “The key will continue to launch Copilot on devices that have the Copilot app installed until a customer selects a different experience.”
As part of Microsoft’s effort to get Windows users to test its AI assistant, the Copilot key is the first significant update to Windows keyboards in thirty years.
New Copilot Plus PCs also shipped with this key earlier this year, and Microsoft has actually made the Copilot experience less useful on these new devices by making Copilot a web app in the latest 24H2 update for Windows 11.
Microsoft plans to allow Windows 11 users to customize the Copilot key, which is now available on new laptops and keyboards. The Copilot button is set by default to launch Microsoft’s Copilot app on Windows 11, but the company is currently testing the ability to use the button to launch other apps instead.
The new beta version of Windows 11 includes customization changes that are available to testers starting today. “You can choose to have the Copilot key launch an app that is MSIX packaged and signed, thus indicating the app meets security and privacy requirements to keep customers safe,” explains the Windows Insider team in a blog post. “The key will continue to launch Copilot on devices that have the Copilot app installed until a customer selects a different experience.”
As part of Microsoft’s effort to get Windows users to test its AI assistant, the Copilot key is the first significant update to Windows keyboards in thirty years.
New Copilot Plus PCs also shipped with this key earlier this year, and Microsoft has actually made the Copilot experience less useful on these new devices by making Copilot a web app in the latest 24H2 update for Windows 11.