Microsoft Copilot to hijack your browser... for your own convenience

Microsoft is rolling out a Copilot update to Windows Insiders that embeds web browsing directly into the assistant, opening links in a side panel rather than launching your default browser.

The plan is that users of the Copilot App in Windows will show content in the assistant's window, "so you don't lose context."

Copilot will also (with permission) have access to the context of tabs opened in that conversation, so the assistant can look across them when responding to user prompts. Tabs that are opened will be saved with the conversation so that they can be returned to, and, if a user chooses to enable it, passwords and form data can be synchronized.

Enabling password and form data synchronization might give some users pause for thought, particularly after the Windows Recall fiasco, but users worried about Redmond slurping data should probably consider an alternative to Windows anyway.

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