Microsoft has just launched two major products in quick succession in its Copilot strategy of conquest through AI. First, Copilot for OneDrive, found in the web version of the service.
As always with the assistant, it’s about productivity and saving time. We can thus ask him to create summaries on one or more documents (up to five at the same time), to compare the differences between several versions (again up to five at a time) and to add them to a table, to answer complex questions about the files present, to generate ideas based on the documents already present, etc.
The assistant requires a Copilot subscription to be used, no free version being offered in OneDrive. The deployment is in progress and therefore not all accounts display the wizard yet.
Another change, more important in fact: Microsoft is starting the deployment of a new interface for its online Copilot. Several American media – including Neowin and Windows Latest – highlight several strong points. The new version would thus be significantly more efficient, more pleasant and more practical. Much more in line, above all, with the latest developments from ChatGPT and Gemini in terms of user experience.
This “2.0” Copilot asks for the person’s name before providing answers. It also supports light and dark themes. Queries can be based on text, images or – and this is new – voice. Four voices are available (Meadow, Wave, Grove and Canyon) for the response, but more must be added later. The entire interface is card-based.
The new Copilot Daily feature is a major addition. It is a kind of podcast automatically generated from the user’s sources of interest. In a capture, we can also read that a warning is present to indicate that the podcast may contain errors. Difficult to say more for the moment, because this new version of Copilot is a priori only deployed in Brazil and India for the moment.
According to Windows Latest, this new version is based on ChatGPT-4. Certain capabilities are currently missing, notably plugins. Others, removed from the first version, such as the ability to send PDFs, have still not returned. According to Tom Warren of The Verge, this could be the redesign that will serve as the basis for new mobile apps.
