Microsoft Quietly Launches Dedicated Copilot App For Android (neowin.net) 14
Microsoft quietly launched a dedicated Copilot app on Android, giving users a way to access Copilot's AI features without the Bing mobile app. "Spotted by @technosarusrex on X, it is now available for download from the Google Play Store, and the app's listing suggests it arrived in the marketplace about a week ago," reports Neowin. From the report: The new Copilot app for Android is not entirely a new thing. At first sight, it looks similar to the Bing Chat app, which still lets you access the same chat features. In addition, you can use Copilot within the Microsoft Edge browser for Android, SwiftKey, Skype, and more. Copilot for Android supports plenty of features (you can also toggle between light and dark themes) that are already available on desktop. You can ask complex questions, generate images using DALL-E 3, draft documents or emails, or just have a casual conversation about anything. In addition, the app lets you turn off or on the recently added GPT-4.
Still trying to be relevant... (Score:3)
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Clippy (Score:2)
Too bad (Score:3)
My phone is part of my security perimeter. The last thing I will put on it is anything made by Microsoft.
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The only thing running any Microsoft code is my work computers, and that's because I have no choice. It seems like a religions that everybody needs Office to do any work, and apparently Teams too nowadays.
And I suspect that's how Microsoft maintains half of its relevance: by inserting itself forcibly into the lives of those who neither want nor need them through their workplace, because everybody has to work and eschewing work-mandated tools isn't an option.
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Yep, that is how they do it and how their bad quality products stay relevant. For me it is not even all of work. I do some of my lectures (were I get to decide) in LibreOffice and that causes less effort and works better than in PowerPoint, and it runs on Linux with not issue. I dio some lectures with others and since they decided on PP, I do not have much choice there. My teaching laptop is on Windows, but only because too many beamer manufacturers are incapable of following a spec and Linux has a tendency
Looks like a rebrand (Score:2)
It doesn't seem to do anything the old Bing app didn't already do. But Microsoft appears to (finally) be starting to ditch the Bing brand name, in favor of Copilot.
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The last thing I want is yet another system webview wrapper/Chromium engine on my phone.
If Microsoft wanted me to be mildly aroused then they would have it implemented cross-platform as a Firefox plugin.
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What is it about GeckoView that you prefer, compared to WebView? Just that it's cross-platform?
Re: Looks like a rebrand (Score:1)
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I can get behind that reason!
Kind of cool (Score:2)
I don't usually try MS products - and would never have heard of this without this article.
I tried "How to I use WLED with Hubitat" and it gave me instuctions including pointing to community drivers and instructions on using MQQT is that was the route I prefered.
I like this allot.
It also did not require me to sign in to my MS account (an old hotmail account.)
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Not bad, I was worried knowing its a Microsoft product, but it does need any specific access. So far so good.