Microsoft is taking advantage of the launch of the new Surface devices to unveil a series of new Windows 11 features that will appear in the coming weeks — first to users registered in the Windows Insiders program and who own a Copilot+PC.
Critics will say that this is finally a useful use of AI! Windows 11 will introduce an "AI agent" that will find the right setting simply by asking in natural language, for example: "the text is too small." The operating system's settings panel can sometimes be a real jungle where it is very difficult to find what you are looking for. If AI can at least be used for that...
In reverse mirror, the new Click to Do function is rather poorly put together, with ill-defined contours. It’s a shortcut that lets you launch Copilot to act on a text or an image, to write content in Word, read a text aloud, schedule a meeting in Teams or even activate the Immersive Reader feature.
Click to Do can be launched by pressing the Windows key + click, from the Start menu, or by double-clicking with the stylus.
The Photos, Paint and Screenshot applications now have new AI functions. Relight allows you to reposition up to three light sources in a photo, modify their color and intensity, and define a focal point that all the lights will automatically follow.
From simple text, Paint generates ready-to-use personalized stickers, which can be inserted into a drawing or shared. In Screenshot, Perfect screenshot automatically adjusts the capture area around the main element on the screen, to avoid cropping after the fact.
Windows 11 also welcomes other new features that will also be released in the coming weeks. The changes to the Start menu are already known, including the new mobile companion that mirrors the smartphone screen right next to the Start window.
File Explorer and Notepad also benefit from some new functions: AI actions in the former (to summarize content or quickly modify an image), writing and summary features for the latter.
Windows Insiders users can already test the new Vision de Copilot, which can analyze on-screen content and provide potentially useful information.
Source: Microsoft
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