Microsoft adds new AI features to Windows 11: Copilot Voice, with a “Hey, Copilot!” wake word, and Copilot Vision, which can scan the screen to help the user
where AI is built into the tools people already use every day. With today's updates, every Windows 11 PC becomes an AI PC, with Copilot at the center, ready to help you think, create, and act. And it all starts with “Hey Copilot.” [video] Zac Bowden / @zacbowden : This is Microsoft's new agentic Copilot feature for Windows 11 in action. It will take your task and complete it in a separate desktop environment, and you can watch it while it works or minimize and get on with your own task. [video] Ryan Shrout / @ryanshrout : This announcement that every @Windows 11 PC will become an AI PC marks a shift in how the company views the operating system of the future. The vision (pun!) is clear: move beyond traditional app-driven workflows toward natural, conversational interaction where users can simply Charlie / @ghost_motley : I am not talking to my computer. Satya Nadella / @satyanadella : Hey Copilot! Show everyone how we're transforming how you interact with your Windows PC — so you can talk naturally, it can see what you see, and take action on your behalf. [video] @windows : Meet the computer you can talk to. The way you use your PC is evolving. Learn more about Copilot on Windows 11: https://blogs.windows.com/... @windowsblog : Making every Windows 11 PC an AI PC https://blogs.windows.com/... @windowsdev : The era of AI PCs is here. 💻 Just say “Hey Copilot” to: • Talk naturally with Copilot Voice • See what you see with Copilot Vision • Get things done with Copilot Actions Learn more: https://blogs.windows.com/... [video] Lance Ulanoff / @lanceulanoff : I think back to the first time Microsoft talked about bringing voice control to Windows, back in the 1990s, and mostly in answer to OS/2, which was integrating it first. Now, the necessary AI technology is finally ready to make it practical. Exciting times for Windows. Pavan Davuluri / @pavandavuluri : Today we're taking the next step in making powerful AI easy and useful on Windows 11. With Copilot and new agentic experiences at the center, every Windows 11 PC becomes an AI PC that empowers you to connect, create, and work in more natural ways. Voice is becoming the next [video] @obscuravpn : The bloatware OS added more bloatware!! [image] @ecommerceshares : Satya cooking Michelin-style here with Agentic Windows. Cc @satyanadella It's like those Terry Pratchett fantasy-style computers that used to have a little elf living in them and doing the tasks for you. Brandon LeBlanc / @brandonleblanc : As a Star Trek fan, I have always wanted to be able to talk to my PC like Captain Picard and have it do things for me. I am excited about the work we're doing here with voice and making every Windows 11 PC an AI PC. Yusuf Mehdi / @yusuf_i_mehdi : Here's what's new 👇 Copilot Voice lets you speak naturally to your PC—just say “Hey Copilot” to begin, and “Goodbye” to end. Copilot Vision gives your PC the ability to see what you see—offering contextual support across your desktop, apps, and documents. Copilot Actions Tom Warren / @tomwarren : Copilot on the taskbar is one of Microsoft's new Windows 11 features it announced today. It replaces the search box and gives you a launcher-like prompt window and access to Copilot Vision / Voice [video] Zac Bowden / @zacbowden : Microsoft announces agentic AI assistant for Windows 11 that can control your PC and do tasks for you. It's also introducing Hey Copilot, which lets you talk to your PC from anywhere, and it's bringing Copilot to the Taskbar search box https://www.windowscentral.com/ ... Paul Couvert / @itspaulai : Wow Microsoft just announced Copilot Actions for local files 🤯 You can basically ask Copilot to perform any task on your machine autonomously. Yes. - Open Copilot in Windows - Assign a goal in natural language - Copilot launches a contained environment - It works autonomously [video] Will Oremus / @willoremus : Microsoft should come up with some kind of cute avatar to represent the AI and make it seem more user-friendly. Something simple and relatable; maybe an everyday object of some sort... ? Anton Hand / @antonhand : This is why I'm staying on Win10, and when I can no longer stay on Win10, I am moving to Linux. Fuck this nonsense. @testingcatalog : Copilot for Windows got a huge upgrade with many Agentic AI features. - Voice Copilot on Win 11 - Copilot Vision on Windows - Reimagined taskbar experience - Previewing Copilot Actions for local files -Copilot connectors, easy doc creation $MSFT is back 🔥 [video] Mustafa Suleyman / @mustafasuleyman : Today, we're one step closer to AI as an operating system. A computer you can talk to, that can see what you see, and take action - all with your permission, all more intuitive than ever. Vision now GA globally + more on today's @Windows blog: https://blogs.windows.com/... [image] LinkedIn: Dang Ibana : Say hello to your new AI-powered PC! — Microsoft is turning every Windows 11 device into an AI productivity powerhouse with Copilot at the core. … Eric Wise : I picked up a Mac Mini recently to build a free “get your Mac setup to learn to code” course. — As a primarily .NET developer for many years and a gamer … Frank Brassart : 🎉 Today marks an exciting moment for Microsoft and Windows. We believe in a future where AI is naturally and intuitively embedded … Yash Misra : 🎉 We did it — Every Windows 11 PC is now an AI PC. — This milestone is the result of incredible collaboration across Windows & Copilot teams. … Jeff Strasser : Copilot is now core to the Windows experience — ... because consumer AI shouldn't be an app, it should be everywhere. … Bluesky: N.P. Thompson / @nptwrites : I do not want my damned laptop to be “a true partner”. 😑 [embedded post] Darren Ewing / @sadknob : this is exactly the opposite of what i want in a computer. i'm looking forward to exploring the many “how to force shut off microsoft ai bullshit in regedit” articles so i can still play games. — fuck you. fuck your ai. fuck you again. — linux runs my writing software … Will Oremus / @willoremus.com : Microsoft should come up with some kind of cute avatar to represent the AI and make it seem more user-friendly. Something simple and relatable; maybe an everyday object of some sort. [embedded post] Joshua Foust / @joshuafoust.com : Literally no one wants this janky surveillance garbage. It's men who don't like people and treat them like appliances making computers to simulate people they can treat like an appliance: Offensive on every human level. @darthbluesky : “The PC should be able to act on your behalf.” — the fuck is it with these guys [embedded post] Catalin Cimpanu / @campuscodi.risky.biz : Turning Windows into a more expensive Alexa is probably right there with the dumbest decision in tech since Microsoft's infamous Xbox One launch that basically killed its console forever [embedded post] Pemry Janes / @pemryjanes.com : Just checked, and it's on my PC now. — But I can turn it off so it doesn't start at start-up and removed it from the start menu. — Won't delete it entirely because you know MS will just reinstall it at the next update while removing my settings. [embedded post] @greybrewer : Ooh, can't wait for the peripheral that extends jagged splinters under your fingernails! Steve Kovach / @stevekovach : All while sharing everything you're doing on your computer with Microsoft! [embedded post] Nilay Patel / @reckless : AI people keep showing up in my mentions to argue that I am not using their specific narrow definition of AI agents while the industry keeps promising magic computers that can listen and take consistent, reliable actions on arbitrary voice commands www.theverge.com/news/799768/ ... Peter Wartman / @peterwartman.com : extremely good time to figure out linux — www.theverge.com/news/799768/ ... @brokenwing : Total number of lifetime users will be 5 digits. Total revenue generation will be strongly negative. General feedback will be negative. It will live a zombie life for a decade before finally being discontinued. But in the meantime, it will make people eager to leave. Definitely not desperation. … King Ned Blood / @grumble.social : People thought online shopping would happen via virtual store walkthroughs; in reality searching and clicking on an item in a list was a vastly superior experience. — People want the fastest flow. Talking to your pc will always be slower than muscle memory and clicks. Unhinged goals. Luke M. / @geekelite.geekerific.com : Even more impetus for me to start experimenting with Linux. [embedded post] Frederic Lardinois / @fredericl : Microsoft really, really, really wants to make the ‘Year of the Linux Desktop’ happen ASAP. blogs.windows.com/windowsexper... P.A. Bat-stein / @pabastien : I swear after this fails... if it comes out that this ended up being invented because they wanted the computers you can talk to like in TNG, I am going to actively advocate giving techbros wedgies. — Well no I'd advocate that regardless but I'd go for atomic wedgies instead [embedded post] @turfster : www.theverge.com/news/799768/ ... Wow yeah if there's one thing people that aren't do-nothing waste of space managers & execs Love, it's spending time in meetings instead of doing Actual Work™ in their Open Plan Office surrounded by Every-fucking-one else's noises. — Get fucked, human skidmark. … Patrick / @partnardy : trying to watch a movie on a plane by yelling “Hey, Copilot - start Crash” and getting shot in the head by an air marshal [embedded post] Andrew / @andrewt.net : “You should be able to talk to your PC, have it understand you, and then be able to have magic happen from that,” says Mehdi — I mean yeah, that'd be great, but I don't see how it's relevant until you invent something that can do that [embedded post] Luc / @aura.dog : they killed Cortana for this @weirdnoirmaster : Most interaction with technology nowdays is turning off bullshit features like this no one wants [embedded post] @ntpnate : I am too old and too lazy to learn Linux and if I have to stop gaming because of this shit and because Microsoft incorporates Teams into the XBox I will have my vengeance on the world. [embedded post] @niceandinnocent : Somebody should tell them that nobody wants this Ben Harris / @benharris1 : Everyone knows that the best products and technologies are those that are foisted onto people against their will. [embedded post] S.M. Pritchard / @smpritchard : Really trying to push people to Linux I guess @projectazar.com : Desktop Linux is not a solution to the problem of Windows. It is just a replacement of Windows problems with a different set of frustrating problems. — But fuck I'd much rather have the Linux problems than whatever the fuck this is from Microsoft. [embedded post] @shredgnarly : “Hey Copilot! How do I get rid of Copilot?” Ed Zitron / @edzitron.com : Big day for people who eat paint [embedded post] Mustafa Suleyman / @mustafasuleymanai : Today, we're one step closer to AI as an operating system. A computer you can talk to, that can see what you see, and take action - all with your permission, all more intuitive than ever. — Vision now GA globally + more on today's Windows blog: blogs.windows.com/windowsexper... [image] Tom Warren / @tomwarren.co.uk : This is the future of Windows. Microsoft wants to rewrite Windows to turn computers into AI PCs that you talk to. It's now bringing AI features to all Windows 11 PCs today, in a bid to convince you to talk to your PC and let AI control it. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/799768/ ... Mastodon: @Catelli@social.vivaldi.net : Never once have I felt the need to tell my computer what I am doing or am trying to do. Putting commands into voice takes more energy than keyboard and mouse. — https://www.theverge.com/... Kevin Beaumont / @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social : That BlueSky post alone is going viral, over 1k quote skeets. In my opinion, Microsoft is very lost due to genAI. — [image] Kevin Beaumont / @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social : What would you say to Windows? — [image] Harry McCracken / @harrymccracken@mastodon.social : I talked to a bunch of very experienced Microsoft executives about Windows 11's new voice-controlled AI and the long, long road that led to it, and got to think back to its many ancestors, all the way back to Windows 95's forgotten voice features. Here's my story! https://www.fastcompany.com/ ... Forums: r/privacy : AI-powered features begin creeping deeper into the bedrock of Windows 11 - Ars Technica r/enshittification : Microsoft announcing “a new wave of updates that make every Windows 11 PC an AI PC with Copilot at the center of it all.” r/technology : Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it | Microsoft is rewriting Windows to turn computers into AI PCs that you talk to r/microsoft : Microsoft announcing “a new wave of updates that make every Windows 11 PC an AI PC with Copilot at the center of it all.” r/windows : Making every Windows 11 PC an AI PC Msmash / Slashdot : Microsoft Wants You To Talk To Your PC and Let AI Control It
Context & Ripple Effects
Microsoft has steadily moved Copilot from a taskbar entry point for AI-powered search to dedicated hardware through the Copilot key on new PCs. The Windows 11 release makes that progression more pervasive by putting voice and screen context behind a single launcher.
Vision itself began as a web-page analysis feature in Microsoft's earlier Copilot Vision rollout. Extending it across the desktop, apps, and documents makes Windows—not an individual app—the operating surface for Copilot.
First-order effects
- Windows 11 users gain wake-word voice interaction and screen-aware assistance, while Copilot Actions can carry out tasks in a contained desktop environment, including work involving local files.
- Microsoft replaces the taskbar search box with a Copilot-oriented prompt, making Copilot Vision and Voice a more prominent default route into Windows tasks; the expansion also intensifies existing user privacy concerns around screen access.
Second-order effects
- App and productivity-software providers face a stronger incentive to make their interfaces and workflows legible to Copilot, since Windows-level context can become the layer through which users ask for help or delegate work.
- Competitors in desktop operating systems and voice assistants will be judged more directly on whether they can offer comparable cross-app context and task execution while giving users credible control over what an assistant can see and do.
Third-order effects
- If users accept these controls, the desktop could shift from an app-and-search interface toward an agentic work surface where the operating system intermediates routine actions across software.
- The privacy reaction shows that adoption will hinge not only on capability but on transparent permissions and containment; that could make trust controls a durable differentiator for embedded AI agents.
The trend: This is part of the shift from standalone chatbots to ambient, workflow-native agents embedded in the operating system's everyday controls.