Imagine you're a Windows user and need to summarize a file or edit an image. You’d likely start by heading to File Explorer, navigating to the file you need, and then opening it. Let's say it's a task AI can handle quickly — you’d then launch your AI app of choice and manually prompt it to perform the action.
Microsoft believes that you shouldn’t waste this much time on such tasks, which is exactly why it announced AI shortcuts in File Explorer, called AI Actions, in its most recent Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.4151 (KB5058486).
