The AI ​​assistant Copilot will soon be available in the Windows 11 sidebar, ready to answer any questions.

With the AI ​​assistant Windows Copilot, Microsoft wants to turn every user into a so-called “power user”. The software giant announced this at its annual Build developer conference. It doesn’t definitely replace the current taskbar when you click the bottom right, but we’ll see that happen in Windows 11 (or maybe not until Windows 12) in the future.

For example, you can ask Windows Copilot to summarize, rewrite, or explain specific content in an app. It’s very similar to Bing Chat, the AI ​​assistant you’ll find in the Edge internet browser today. For example, you can drag a PDF file into Copilot and ask content-related questions.

Because Copilot is built into Windows 11, you can also conveniently request tasks like adjusting sound settings or enabling focus time. Instead of always looking in the settings menu, you can now ask your question to the AI ​​assistant.

Windows Copilot provides access to developer plug-ins to build tools on top of them. By the way, Microsoft uses the same basis as ChatGPT from OpenAI. The same plugins are compatible with each other and can eventually become a rich ecosystem.

Windows 11 testers, so-called Windows Insiders, can get started with the new AI assistant starting next month. Read here how you can become a tester and what advantages and disadvantages such an early test version has. The feature will roll out to all users worldwide later this year.

Already today you can discover the Copilot AI assistant in many other services, including OneNote, GitHub, Power Platform and the Office suite, whether in beta or not as an Insider.