Microsoft's Big Ai Update For Windows 11 Is Here - What's New

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Windows 11 users will find a big of caller features awaiting them pinch a awesome update now being rolled retired by Microsoft. Launched connected Tuesday specifically for Windows 11 24H2, nan optional update known arsenic KB5062660 carries pinch it a cavalcade of AI-powered skills on pinch wide enhancements and bug fixes galore.

In a Tuesday blog post, Microsoft touted each nan caller AI devices and tricks successful nan update. For amended aliases worse, astir of these are geared toward Copilot+ PCs, truthful if you person a modular Windows 11 computer, you won't beryllium capable to effort them all. But let's spot what we've got.

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First up is simply a new AI agent that tin thief you position and alteration settings successful Windows. Now disposable connected Snapdragon-powered Copilot+ PCs successful English and coming later to Intel and AMD Copilot+ devices, nan supplier will study for work erstwhile you picture what you want to do via nan Settings hunt box.

In response, nan supplier will not only explicate really to execute your task but will unpaid to return attraction of it for you. The overarching extremity is to thief you amended woody pinch nan sheer number and complexity of each nan settings baked into Windows.

To effort this retired connected a Snapdragon Copilot+ PC, unfastened nan Settings screen. Type thing successful nan Settings hunt box, specified arsenic "I want to alteration quiet hours," aliases "connect Bluetooth device," aliases "change my solution to 1920×1080." If nan supplier tin transportation retired your task connected its own, it will inquire for support to proceed. If nan ngo doesn't spell arsenic planned, nan supplier tin besides undo nan action.

Next are respective caller skills for Click to Do, which lets you click matter aliases an image to unfastened a paper pinch various commands, specified arsenic copy, save, share, and search. Click to Do moreover integrates pinch Microsoft Copilot. Now, nan characteristic tin activity pinch a Reading Coach to thief you pinch reference fluency and pronunciation and an Immersive Reader to assistance you pinch reference and writing.

Another caller accomplishment is nan Draft pinch Copilot successful Word action. Here, you tin enlist nan assistance of Copilot successful Word to alteration immoderate selected matter into a afloat draft. For this one, though, you would request a Microsoft 365 Copilot subscription. Plus, you tin now usage Click to Do pinch Microsoft Teams connected a Copilot+ PC. Selecting an email reside successful Teams lets you nonstop a connection aliases schedule a meeting.

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The latest Windows 11 update besides tweaks nan arguable Recall feature, which tin automatically return snapshots of everything you do and spot connected your Copilot+ PC. You tin now reset Recall and delete each saved data. To do this, caput to Settings, prime Privacy & Security, and click Recall & Snapshots. At nan caller precocious settings page, click nan reset button. Plus, Recall is now disposable successful nan European Economic Area (EEA).

The Photos, Paint, and Snipping Tool apps person been enhanced, but only connected Copilot+ PCs for now.

In Photos, you tin usage a Relight action to alteration nan intensity, color, and position of nan lighting successful a photo. In Paint, you're now capable to usage AI to create typical stickers based connected your matter prompts and prime circumstantial elements successful an image to make targeted changes. And nan Snipping Tool now helps you return amended screenshots and prime immoderate colour connected nan surface to use it elsewhere.

Other updates to Windows 11

There's overmuch successful shop for each Windows 11 users, not conscionable those pinch Copilot+ PCs.

The infamous Blue Screen of Death is now nan Black Screen of Death. Beyond a darker overgarment job, nan acquainted surface sports an correction codification and nan sanction of nan record that triggered nan crash.

Even better, though, nan caller Windows 11 update adds a characteristic called Quick Machine Recovery, aliases QMR, to thrust to nan rescue successful nan arena of a boot-up problem. Upon immoderate type of captious boot-up failure, your PC will participate betterment mode, link to your network, and past nonstop diagnostic information to Microsoft. Based connected that data, Microsoft automatically sends a hole for nan rumor to your PC via Windows Update.

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Here are a fewer different improvements successful nan update. Messages will now popular up erstwhile you effort to usage nan Snap tool. The 2 Search screens successful Settings person been condensed into 1 azygous screen. And nan Gamepad layout for nan touch keyboard sports amended navigation controls.

Aside from nan caller features are besides a assortment of bug fixes. Most of them impact File Explorer but 1 impacts your desktop icons and different your notifications.

To drawback nan caller update for Windows 11, caput to Settings, prime Windows Update, and past click nan fastener to cheque for updates. You should spot nan cumulative update preview for KB5062660. If so, click nan nexus to download and instal it. The update will past bring Windows 11 24H2 up to build number 26100.4770.

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