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Windows Central
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Jez Corden

This new Microsoft Copilot feature might actually make it ... good? Something I actually won't hate? Something that MIGHT boost productivity? A shocking notion, I know.

Copilot Tasks.

There's a new Microsoft Copilot feature now in preview, and it might actually be the first actually useful feature the team has added since Copilot debuted.

Microsoft Copilot is what you might call the redheaded stepchild of artificial intelligence chatbots. ChatGPT is still the top player, despite a huge and ongoing campaign to ditch OpenAI following the platform's capitulation to the U.S. Department of War. Anthropic's Claude is on the up and up, buoyed by a principled stance against autonomous AI weaponry and mass surveillance of citizens. Google Gemini has had a big boost in recent months owing to deep integration with existing Google monopolies, and even xAI often finds itself far more capable than Microsoft Copilot. Is that about to change?

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