5 ways Windows 11's new Copilot AI assistant will make your life easier

This week, Microsoft offered its first look at Windows Copilot, an AI-powered assistant that appears to be a one-stop shop for managing all sorts of tasks within Windows 11. Microsoft showed Windows Copilot standing in for Bing Chat, the AI chatbot that's rivaled OpenAI's ChatGPT as the main AI assistants of the Web. But Windows Copilot appears to be much more, as a concierge of sorts for everything that your PC and its apps can do. There's a real question, however, of what class of hardware Windows Copilot will demand -- and Microsoft offered the first hints of how it may manage the diversity of PCs that wish to run it. Windows Copilot, at least for now, appears to be a sidebar that for right now will open up as a column on the right side of your screen, where your Windows notifications typically reside.