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Microsoft Adds Copilot Mode To Edge (windows.com) 49

Posted by msmash from the experimental-features dept.
Microsoft today launched Copilot Mode, an experimental feature that transforms Edge into an AI-powered browser experience. Available free for a limited time on Windows and Mac in markets where Copilot operates, the mode places AI at the center of web browsing through a single input interface combining chat, search, and navigation.

The feature enables Copilot to view content across all open browser tabs, handle voice commands, and assist with tasks like comparing websites. Future capabilities will include booking reservations and managing errands through natural language commands. Microsoft has not specified when the free trial ends, though the feature will likely require a Copilot Pro subscription afterward.
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  • It's always great news that some 'feature' isn't going to be free; because that means it isn't being fast tracked toward obnoxious mandatory default.
    • This is just drug pushing. The first hit is always free, but after that it will cost you, usually a lot more than you though.
      • That's precisely the encouraging part. If only the first hit is free there's the hope that simply not paying will make them go away and stop hitting you.

    • spyware (Score:4, Interesting)

      by awwshit ( 6214476 ) on Monday July 28, 2025 @04:19PM (#65551070)

      Its just spyware.

      > The feature enables Copilot to view content across all open browser tabs

      Yeah, including private ones that require a login. Maybe I don't want co-pilot along for the ride when I log into a web site with medical records, and for many other instances.

      Copilot wants to vacuum up your life, all of it.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by Pascoea ( 968200 )

        Maybe I don't want co-pilot along for the ride [full stop]

        Fixed that for you. As someone who uses "AI" for various tasks, I'm far from a "I don't need any of this crap" curmudgeon. But the fact that this is infecting every part of my daily techno-life is maddening. I opened Excel the other day and was greeted with the "What can I help you make" bullshit AI prompt. I asked it "how do I turn off this feature", to which it happily created me a really nice looking set of step-by-step instructions complete with menu paths, expected results, all that stuff you'd expe

        • Maybe I don't want co-pilot along for the ride [full stop]

          I had to google how to turn it off.

          That's easy. Install Linux and LibreOffice or similar and problem solved.

          • Re: (Score:2)

            by Pascoea ( 968200 )
            I have a feeling my corporate IT dept wouldn't be real thrilled about that plan.

  • Not that anyone needed any more reasons to stop using Edge but adding Copilot to it is the ultimate reason stay away. The proverbial shit of the shits, the shit on top of Mount Everest of other crap.

    • I'm just sick of it being shoved down my throat. Anyone want to start the Butlerian Jihad with me?

      • The subsequent Cult of Serena is too much for me. I just use Linux (and for a few specific needs, Apple).

    • Not that anyone needed any more reasons to stop using Edge

      Unfortunately, there are web site which don't work in Firefox. Just had one on Friday where the purchasing screen wouldn't accept inputs for credit card information. Neither Linux nor Windows version would work. Had to resort to insecure Edge to make the purchase and hope my information wasn't spread to the four winds.

      • Unfortunately, there are web site which don't work in Firefox. Just had one on Friday where the purchasing screen wouldn't accept inputs for credit card information. Neither Linux nor Windows version would work. Had to resort to insecure Edge to make the purchase and hope my information wasn't spread to the four winds.

        De-googled Chromium would do the job.

    • It's weird how edge is worse in every way to older versions of IE.

      • Definitely!

        Remember when every website just worked in IE and Netscape (about half the time, Netscape was faster by a little bit)? Sure, it didn't have Sync or password saver or the stuff we've gotten accustomed to just having in Chrome/Edge/Firefox these days... but back in the IE6 days, you could programs that would save local copies of bookmarks and password/username (logins) that you could just copy to a floppy and move take to another computer.
        Sure, the browsers weren't all that secure and there was no

    • oh man :( I don't mean to be a contrarian but I switched to Edge from Chrome when Chrome went haywire and refused to play YouTube videos. I tried disabling a bunch of privacy addons and also tried Incognito mode but it just wouldn't play. I actually like using Edge. I haven't noticed an increase in performance but it does a better job of blocking ads than plain Chrome.

      Also, I kinda prefer Copilot to Grok, Einstein AI, GPT. I've tried all but Copilot is the best one so far. It's not perfect but it do

  • This makes excellent sense (Score:4, Insightful)

    by Vlad_the_Inhaler ( 32958 ) on Monday July 28, 2025 @02:42PM (#65550774)

    Given that the previous story on the main page is https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/07/28/1732217/chinese-universities-want-students-to-use-more-ai-not-less [slashdot.org], they are reacting to what a very large number of potential customers want.
    Me? I don't use Windows or Edge.

  • ....transforms Edge into an AI-powered browser experience

    How about .... NO.

  • There's no downsides to Microsoft adding CoPilot to Edge. It's not an invasion of privacy or a feature that's going to make anyone's experience bad. ... Because no one uses Edge.

    • LOL Troll mod. Either someone didn't read the post to the end or we have a moderator who is a huge fan of Edge. ... Dare I say an Edge lord.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by ewhac ( 5844 )

      ...Because no one uses Edge.

      Clearly you have never worked in a large corporate environment that has shackled itself to the entire Micros~1 ecosystem -- Office, Outlook, Exchange, OneDrive, Teams, Engage, SharePoint... The whole ball of earwax.

      • Well actually I do, but my comment still stands given large enterprises signed privacy agreements with Microsoft or have disabled copilot, and it's all moot since you have no expectation of privacy of anything you type on an corporate laptop.

        I was going for a joke, and at first I thought I ignored corporations but really the more I think about it, the more I nailed it. /Disclaimer: Posted from Edge, on a corporate laptop.

  • Bing sucks dick!

    • Bing sucks dick!

      I'm confused. Is that a bug or a feature? :-)

      • Don't get excited, this is Microsoft we're talking about. At best it will leave you seriously disappointed and at worst it will leave you a eunuch.
    • Google can't even do that right anymore. Google used to return 1000s of search results, now its about 10 results scattered within a bunch of product page results. You know it's bad when an innocent search returns mostly products for sale.

  • For filtering all the shitty and irrelevant results that google throws back.

  • Seriously. Do not mess with me when I am trying to get stuff done.

  • > Microsoft today launched Copilot Mode, an experimental feature that transforms Edge into an AI-powered browser experience.

    There .. corrected headline.

  • I'm much faster typing a command or clicking the mouse than I am at translating my intensions into English prose and vocalizing them.

    So are you.

    This is not a feature for almost all users.

  • I run software that FORCES Windows 11 to respect my Default Browser. Which is Brave.

  • AI-powered browser experience? No thanks. Bring back Ronald Reagan:

    "This is exactly how the World Wide Web works: the HTML files are the pithy description on the paper tape, and your Web browser is Ronald Reagan."

    -- Neal Stephenson, "In the beginning was the command line"

  • Names and addresses please.

  • I rarely use Edge, but last time I started it, it told me about the Copilot Feature, I selected no thanks, explicitly declined the EULA, and yet, the damn thing still enabled itself. WFT?

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