Windows Insiders to fly solo while Copilot rollout frozen
Microsoft made the announcement with build 26120.461 on the Windows Insider Dev Channel and build 22635.3570 for Beta Channel Windows Insiders.
The Windows team has been testing various "experiences" on its unpaid army of Windows testers, including making Copilot for Windows behave like a regular application or animating the taskbar icon to indicate that Copilot is ready to help with copying text and images.
Yet something has forced Microsoft's hand to put Copilot on ice. "We have decided to pause the rollouts of these experiences to further refine them based on user feedback."
Does that mean Microsoft is stepping back from its Copilot obsession? It seems not. "Copilot in Windows will continue to work as expected while we continue to evolve new ideas with Windows Insiders."
Microsoft did not specify what feedback it had received to trigger the pause. A look at an earlier Beta Channel build – 22635.3566 on April 26 – indicated that users were not enjoying those new experiences. As well as Copilot launching unexpectedly – definitely nothing to do with the auto-launch experience tried out earlier in the year, according to Microsoft – there were issues with voice access and Windows Ink.
