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Copilot could soon live inside Windows 11's File Explorer, as Microsoft tests Chat with Copilot in Explorer, not just in a separate app

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨throws_lemy@lemmy.nz⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/01/09/copilot-could-soon-live-inside-windows-11s-file-explorer-as-microsoft-tests-chat-with-copilot-in-explorer-not-just-in-a-separate-app/

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  • teft@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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    • axh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      “Rico!”

      “Kaboom?”

      “Yes Rico, kaboom!”

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    • JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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    • zen@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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  • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I just got a colonoscopy and the doc said she found some copilot in there

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    • mr_account@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Terminal

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      • skooma_king@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Powershell, acktually

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      • phutatorius@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Only if it’s more than a yard deep.

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  • Brewchin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Microslop going full “the beatings will continue until morale improves” with their ensloppification of everything they touch, I see.

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    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      MS abandons its other departments development for SLOP 100%. they are on a path to self-destruction.

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  • capuccino@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    At this pace Microsoft will change Windows’ name to Copilot. That’s my prediction.

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    • tias@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      They’re already changing the name of MS Office to “Microsoft Copilot App”. So when you use Copilot inside Microsoft Office on Windows, you’ll be running Copilot in the Copilot App on Copilot OS.

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    • edgemaster72@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      “I know we said Windows 10 would be the last version of Windows you’d need, but we really mean it this time with Windows 11. Introducing… Compost, I mean, Copilot!”

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    • tungah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Microsoft CopilOSt

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  • slaacaa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Holy shit, just fucking stop

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    • zen@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      clears throat

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    • redlemace@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      stop smoking? how is this relevant ?? ;)

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  • dukemirage@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    When I wanted the file search to not suck I didn’t mean that.

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    • ryper@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Users: File search should not be this bad
      Microsoft: How about this bad?

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    • redlemace@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      You don’t understand … you have to talk to file explorer and convince it you really need that file and then talk it into searching for it. (Makes sense … would YOU like to go into onedrive and try to find something ???)

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  • Armand1@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Explorer already crashes enough without this.

    Why don’t they work on Explorer’s awful performance and constant hanging before working in another chatbot?

    You know, useful software development work?

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    • zewm@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      But much agentics tho.

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    • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Because there aren’t any developers in charge any more. At places like MS and Google now promotions are given to people who make a big splash. Fixing a bug doesn’t get attention.

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  • shittydwarf@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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  • superduperpirate@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Is microsoft secretly run by linux evangelists?

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    • henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      It’s been surreal watching my technically-inclined friends switch.

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      • sauerkrautsaul@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        ive run dual boot systems to prolong the life of older lenovo notebooks, leaving windows up for some proprietary software id need for work… if this comes to pass though, im fucking GONE. Ill sooner use macOS than anything with a fucking llm looking at the files on my hard drive 👉

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    • iamthetot@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Microslop*

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    • atropa@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      We are Linux  , resistance is useless ,we are everywhere

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      • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Futile, resistance is futile.

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    • redlemace@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Makes sense… No one has promoted linux since 1991 so hard like microsoft does these last 6 months.

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  • elucubra@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    The thing is that if MS concentrated on providing a bulletproof experience, a sane licensing mode, with a low, cheap, entry bar, they would just keep being the top dog forever.

    Now they are just giving market share to Linux and MacOS for free.

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    • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      it really is wild that they’re pushing away so many people, who otherwise would just sit with them forever, just because profits must always increase

      like all they have to do is stop making things worse and people will stay with them and continue joining them. that’s literally all they have to do. and they can’t do it.

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      • phlegmy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Most public companies and governments focus entirely on short term wins with zero consideration for the future.
        Microslop is no different.

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    • Scrollone@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      The current version of macOS, Tahoe, is also atrocious. It’s completely unusable on a desktop, it feels like they want to make it work like an iPad.

      For the better or worse, the only good OS is now Linux.

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      • elucubra@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Well, the only piece of Apple tech I currently own is an iPad. I bought the thing through a pretty nice offer from my telco, and for a pretty specific use case, running the Affinity suite on the move without lugging my beefy laptop around.

        When I saw how they went full idiot with their glass shit for the UI (hellooo, Windows Aero), I stopped allowing updates. The fact that to reduce transparency and effects to make the thing half usable you have to go into accessibility settings says it all.

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  • e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Soon in the Microslop support forums: “Please help, I asked Copilot for the photos of my late grandma and it deleted my entire C drive”.

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    • lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      It probably “saw” the trash icon somewhere and some “deep thought” model concluded that erasing everything was a good idea.

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  • Matriks404@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    This is just pure idiocy and desperation at this point.

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    • embed_me@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I’m surprised at this. If I was given the job to fuck up windows, I wouldn’t be able to get such ludicrous ideas

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  • Nugscree@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Windows, the first ever sloperating system.

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    • elucubra@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I like somethings sloppy, but definitely not my OSes

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  • TheTimeKnife@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Windows obsession with destroying their own file explorer is bizarre.

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  • LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Genuine question. How does all of this useless nonsense make them money? Is it all just from loans? Are they just saying “look at all the AI we’re doing” and the investors are just desperate to give them more money?

    I just cannot fathom how they profit from all of this. They’re spending so much time doing this. For what? What is the business motive for doing this, if not to get bigger loans from their investors?

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    • JSens1998@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Copilot is falling very far behind all of the other big AI players in the space that it’s actually laughable. The main reason they’re implementing it into every Windows first party application is so they can boost their “user” numbers to satisfy investors.

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      • chunes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I asked DeepSeek something the other day and it actually admitted that it didn’t know the answer and offered advice on how I could find out. I was actually pretty impressed by that

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    • reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Nadella’s buddies are all making AI garbage, so he thinks he has to make AI garbage too. Because he’s massively uncreative.

      And so all the managing leads think “Nadella likes AI! I must find a way to shove AI into my product so that my product/fiefdom doesn’t get the axe! I might even get a bonus! Or promotion!!!”

      And so all the coding slaves are tasked with shoehorning AI into every Microsoft product, app, and/or service.

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    • themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Is the share price going up?

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      • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Down last few months, but overall strong upwards trend over the last few years.

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  • phutatorius@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    It’s metastasizing. There must really be big profit and privacy-invading upsides for MS in this whole mess, since it sure as shit is not being driven by consumer demand.

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    • henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I wonder how many surveillance dollars are going into that company that isn’t publicly known.

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    • 4am@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Imagine knowing what every user is doing? What they read, what they play? What pictures they take? What websites they prefer? Where they get their news? Who they speak with? Their social graph? Where they shop? How often? What their finances look like? Who they work for? What they do for them? How connected they are? How that company is doing? What their quarterly report look like before they make it public? What their plans are for those upcoming layoffs? Who they do business with for importing? What the next big thing they’re designing is?

      What Microsoft is attempting to do is to create a planned economy that only benefits the rich. They’re trying to do the thing they always complain is bad about Communism, but do it in a way that gives the rich people control.

      We are living in a trap and Microsoft must be eradicated from all computers and networks. OpenAI too.

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    • goatinspace@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      There are thousands of data brokers but we don’t really know to who Evil corp is selling data

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  • lechekaflan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Install Linux Problem Solved.

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  • Gerudo@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Gotta pump up those usage numbers somehow. Before long, it’ll be on the login screen

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    • khaleer@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Do you want me to fill up your password box for you?

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      • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        [logs in with credentials]

        — I’m sorry, I can’t let you do that.

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  • Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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  • ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I have to use Windows 11 for my school computer, not allowed to change the OS. I didn’t realize how shit awful explorer had gotten between 10 and 11. For anyone reading this who has to use 11: there are explorer alternatives. I use OneCommander and it let me change the default explorer for shortcuts and when other programs bring things up like with “show in folder” options. I don’t have to use windows explorer anymore and while it’s no Linux at least it doesn’t have fucking copilot and it gives me back basic control

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  • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Thank you Microslop!

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  • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I cannot understand why a user would ever want this

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  • FabledTurtle@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    All they had to do is built an actually good search into explorer, they didn’t do that for 20 years and now they force this trash on us… Good thing I ditched Windows last year and soon will sell all my Microsoft shares, that company has no future or vision it’s disgusting

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  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    ALL YOUR DIRECTORY ARE BELONG TO US

    YOU HAVE NO CHANCE TO PRIVATE

    MAKE YOUR TIME

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  • Redtrax@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Glad I moved to Linux recently, windows 11 has been atrocious 

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  • garretble@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Just what I want: file explorer to load even slower than it does now.

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  • lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I can already see them brainstorming how to put that stuff in the calculator app.

    At least, they don’t put it into the event viewer, because its source code has never seen a change. Looks like 10 years ago and the performance is as bad as then.

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  • Somecall_metim@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Well just earlier today, I installed Pop OS on an external drive. I’ll be using that to see if I can use it as a daily driver. If I can, microsoft can eat the entirety of my arse.

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  • BiomedOtaku@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Linux has been very nice to me. I will look back fuck shitdows.

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  • edgemaster72@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Not beating the cancer/parasite allegations

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