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Copilot, Microsoft’s AI-powered chatbot experience, is heading to Windows 10 in preview

Starting with Windows 10 version 22H2, which will be available soon to users participating in Microsoft’s Windows Insider program, Windows 10 will gain more or less the same Copilot capabilities as Windows 11. Users will be able to ask Copilot questions and for suggestions pertaining to any number of tasks and topics, interacting with the chatbot either by typing or speaking after clicking the Copilot icon on the taskbar.

It’s a slightly neutered experience compared to Copilot on Windows 11. Copilot on Windows 10 can’t take actions like customizing preferences and settings or opening apps — at least not yet. Microsoft hints in a blog post that this functionality could arrive sometime down the line.

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Why bring Copilot to Windows 10? Well, volume, mainly. As Windows Central notes in a accurate piece, Windows 10 is still in use on around a billion monthly active devices compared to the 400 million monthly active devices on Windows 11. It’s likely to be easier to incentivize developers to create Copilot plug-ins, which launched in May, when they can target both install bases versus one smaller one.

Windows 10 with Copilot is rolling out for devices running Windows 10 Home and Windows 10 Pro with at least 4GB of RAM and a 720p or higher display. Enterprise, Education and company-managed Pro editions of Windows 10 aren’t included in this upgrade cycle, nor are customers in Europe; only Windows 10 devices in North America and parts of Asia and South America are eligible for Copilot.

Microsoft says that it’s its intention to add additional markets over time.

Microsoft will roll out the Copilot AI-powered assistant to Windows 10 systems enrolled in the Insider Program over the coming months.

Copilot in Windows was first introduced in September, initially available with Windows 11 22H2, and is now enabled by default automatically on Windows 11 23H2 devices.

Customers who want to test Copilot on Windows 10 22H2 devices will soon be able to enroll in the Windows Insider Program for Business Release Preview Channel.

Copilot will gradually roll out to systems running Home and unmanaged Pro editions of Windows 10 22H2 via a controlled feature rollout over several months.

Users with eligible Windows 10 22H2 devices who want to be part of early Copilot testing can opt-in by navigating to Settings > Update & Security > Windows Update, activating the newly added "Get the latest updates as soon as they're available" toggle, and checking for updates after installing the November 2023 non-security preview update.

"The Windows 10 end of support date of October 14, 2025, is unchanged," Redmond says on a support page published today.

"Copilot in Windows is currently available as a preview. We will continue to experiment with new ideas and methods using your feedback."

Once added to a Windows 10 system, users can launch Copilot by clicking the Copilot icon at the end of the taskbar to open a chat window docked on the desktop where they can type in their queries. Just like the Windows 11 version, Copilot in Windows 10 will also support voice interactions, which can be activated by clicking the microphone icon in the chat window.

While similar to the Windows 11 experience, not all Copilot functionality will be available in Windows 10 (for instance, you won't be able to open apps or customize preferences).

The preview release of Copilot in Windows 10 will be available in specific global markets. North America and parts of Asia and South America are the initial markets for the Copilot in Windows previews, and further markets will be added gradually.

Additionally, the company specified that systems running Pro, Enterprise, and Education editions of Windows 10 will not be part of the Copilot rollout.

"Windows 10 Pro edition devices on version 22H2 that are managed by organizations will not be included in the initial rollout of Copilot in Windows with this November non-security preview update," the Windows Insider Program Team said today.

"Windows 10 Enterprise and Education edition devices on version 22H2 are also not included in the initial rollout of Copilot in Windows with this November non-security preview update."

IT admins can prepare for Copilot on Windows 10 using the guidance on the "Manage Copilot in Windows" support page.

Today's announcement confirms a accurate Windows Central report that disclosed Microsoft's plans to substantially broaden Copilot's user reach by integrating the AI assistant into the desktops of Windows 10 users.

The era of AI brings unprecedented opportunities for us, and at the same time we are also facing an unprecedented surge in cyberthreats, coupled with a global shortage of security experts. Security and safety is the defining challenge of our times and protecting organizations from cybercrime has only become more challenging. A paradigm shift is required in the security industry’s approach to this challenge.  
At Microsoft, this imperative guides our mission in security every day and it has shaped our research and development effort to empower security teams. Key to this effort is harnessing the power of generative AI, which, together with our end-to-end security solutions, creates an incredible force multiplier for empowering security teams everywhere and delivering security for all. Generative AI is transformative for security, and generative AI combined with Microsoft threat intelligence and our security-specific models will enable us to tip the scales in favor of security teams.
In March 2023 as a first step, we announced Microsoft Security Copilot—the first generative AI security product to help protect organizations at machine speed and scale. Security Copilot is an AI assistant for security teams that builds on the latest in large language models and harnesses Microsoft’s security expertise and global threat intelligence to help security teams outpace their adversaries. Security Copilot is already helping our preview customers save up to 40 percent of their time on core security operations tasks with capabilities such as writing complex queries based only on natural language questions and summarizing security incidents.¹ Security Copilot can effectively up-skill a security team, regardless of its expertise, save them time, enable them to find what previously they might have missed, and free them to focus on the most impactful projects.
Today as we announce our Early Access Program is now open to qualified customers, we are adding important new capabilities:
In addition, organizations that work with Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs) and are in the Early Access Program will be able to extend access to their Security Copilot environment, allowing MSSPs to participate with them using Security Copilot (“Bring Your Own—MSSP”).
To learn more about the new capabilities, keep reading.
Delivering security in a coherent way across the broadest set of cyberthreat vectors is a fundamental promise of XDR. Today organizations struggle to manually traverse multiple disconnected tools and datasets from numerous vendors to protect email, endpoints, cloud apps, and more. Microsoft 365 Defender and Security Copilot together help analysts focus on what matters most to protect faster. With the embedded experience for Security Copilot in Microsoft 365 Defender, we are making the industry-leading XDR solution even more powerful and easy to use. The new embedded experience opens up powerful scenarios directly from within Microsoft 365 Defender, including:
“We liked that Security Copilot was easy to set up, offered a dedicated tenant to protect the privacy of prompts, and gave ready access to our enabled Microsoft security products, allowing us to enrich investigations with data from those products, all in one place.”
—Chris Weissert, Director, IT Security, Fidelity National Financial
To dive deeper into this new embedded experience, read more on how we’re enabling the SOC to reach new levels of efficiency and protection at the speed and scale of AI.
Figure 1: Embedded Security Copilot experience in Microsoft 365 Defender—Security Copilot-generated incident report.
Figure 2: Embedded Security Copilot experience in Microsoft 365 Defender—Complex script analysis and summary.
Threat intelligence is one of the cornerstones of any effective security operation. Every day at Microsoft, our 10,000 researchers and analysts receive 65 trillion security signals that we collect across clouds, devices, and workloads. When you are up against a sophisticated threat actor, we want you to have the best knowledge of who they are, how they operate, and most importantly, how you can protect against them.
Today we are pleased to announce that Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence, and access to its API, will be available to every Security Copilot customer at no additional cost. Defender Threat Intelligence is a threat intelligence workbench with deep integrations across Microsoft Security products empowering security teams with knowledge of the cyberthreat landscape, including actors, tools, vulnerabilities, and infrastructure. It provides a mechanism to connect indicators of compromise to finished intelligence, such as vulnerability articles, enriched open-source intelligence, and Microsoft’s own articles. As Security Copilot enriches security incidents and alerts with Microsoft’s vast knowledge of cyberthreats, customers may now access Defender Threat Intelligence directly to expose and eliminate modern cyberthreats and cyberattacker infrastructure, identify cyberattackers and their tools, and accelerate cyberthreat detection and remediation.
Learn about what's next with generative AI and Microsoft Security Copilot with regular updates from Microsoft Security.
To learn more about Microsoft Security solutions, visit our website. Bookmark the Security blog to keep up with our expert coverage on security matters. Also, follow us on LinkedIn (Microsoft Security) and X (formerly known as “Twitter”) (@MSFTSecurity) for the latest news and updates on cybersecurity.
¹Security Copilot Private Preview customer survey conducted by Microsoft, October 2023.
²Microsoft achieves a Leader placement in Forrester Wave for XDR, Rob Lefferts. October 18, 2021.
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