Top 5 announcements made at Microsoft Build 2023

Organized annually by Microsoft, Build has become a conference where more end-consumer-oriented announcements are made in recent years. However, at Build 2023, Microsoft struck a good balance, making new announcements for enterprise, developers and professionals, as well as introducing consumer-focused innovations. We have summarized the five new announcements that stand out among them for you.

Artificial intelligence assistant is coming to Windows 11

Microsoft is bringing its artificial intelligence personal assistant called Copilot to Windows 11. Microsoft had previously integrated this assistant into Edge, Office apps, and GitHub. Windows Copilot will come to life with a deep integration into Windows 11.

Windows Copilot will live in the taskbar. Clicking on it will open the Copilot sidebar where you can ask it to summarize, rewrite and annotate the texts in the applications you use and adjust the settings of your computer. Microsoft says it will start testing the feature publicly next month before rolling it out to more users.

Windows 11 is also getting a few other minor updates, including support for Bluetooth LE, a low-energy audio feature that lets you enjoy high-quality audio without draining your device’s battery life. Microsoft is also adding support for 10 new languages ​​and dialects to live captions with real-time transcription of audio, as well as native RGB controls in Windows 11.

Add-on support to Microsoft 365 Copilot

If you are going to use artificial intelligence tools for a professional purpose, supporting plugins is an extremely important requirement. The announcement shared by Microsoft about 365 Copilot also fills the gap at this point. Artificial intelligence assistant thanks to plug-in support brought to Microsoft 365 Copilot

The AI ​​assistant will now support three main types of plugins, including Teams message extensions, Power Platform connections, and tools using ChatGPT technology. You will also be able to choose from dozens of third-party plug-ins such as Atlassian and Adobe.

Also, Microsoft says it will build all Copilot and Bing Chat plugins with the same standard OpenAI uses for ChatGPT. This means you can use the same plug-ins across all three AI-powered tools, and developers will have an easier time creating them. Obviously this universal plugin support is a serious step forward.

365 Copilot integration into Microsoft Edge

Microsoft is bringing 365 Copilot to Edge. The tool, which will be located in the sidebar of the browser, will be able to use content from the site you are viewing to help you work on projects in Microsoft 365 applications such as Outlook, Word, Excel and others.

For example, Copilot will make it possible to do things like draft emails, add data to the spreadsheet, create status updates based on conversation topics, and more. Meanwhile, Edge integration will also support the aforementioned add-ons coming to 365 Copilot.

Artificial intelligence doping into Windows Terminal

Windows Terminal gets an AI-powered chatbot thanks to integration with GitHub Copilot. Developers using GitHub Copilot can now use the chatbot directly in Terminal to perform various actions, get code suggestions, and debug. Microsoft also says it plans to bring GitHub Copilot to other developer tools like WinDBG.

However, this is not the only developer-focused update Microsoft has announced. Also introduced is a new Dev Home app that will make it easier to set up and use Windows developer machines. In addition, Microsoft is bringing AI-generated app review summaries to the Microsoft store and is rolling out a new AI Hub to highlight AI-enabled Windows apps.

Bing is now ChatGPT’s default search engine

With Microsoft investing billions of dollars in OpenAI, it comes as no surprise that OpenAI has made Bing the default search engine in the ChatGPT chatbot. Starting today, ChatGPT Plus users will start seeing Bing-generated quotes attached to the chatbot’s replies.

While Microsoft has previously announced that it will make OpenTable and WolframAlpha plugins available for Bing, it is expanding the repository greatly. Bing will soon support plugins from Expedia, Instacart, Kayak, Klarna, Redfin, TripAdvisor, Zillow and more.