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 Dolby Amos music playback is now supported in Apple Music for Windows, bringing true immersive audio to PCs with compatible hardware via Apple's music streaming service for the first time.
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We've used the term "assistant" rather loosely over the past few years. In part, that's due to the aspirational marketing of companies like Google and its "Google Assistant," which has provided answers to spoken questions and not much more. And we will tolerate those machines anticipating some of our preferences: autofilling commands, suggesting movies, and even automatically ordering refills as we run out of ink or milk. Knowing that we typically order orange chicken over chow mein? OK, fine.
Copilot wants to know all about you
Microsoft's, um, thinking different. It wants to proactively offer you reminders and suggestions. How? By assigning a Copilot a "memory": your nephew's birthday and what gifts he might like, the foods you enjoy, and what movies you like. It all sounds very much like an advertising profile, and that's probably what it is.
And if Microsoft's Copilot starts to recognize you as a person, Microsoft hopes you might begin to think of Copilot as a unique individual, too.
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On Friday, at Microsoft's 50th anniversary celebration, the company showed off its Copilot redesign. The company introduced Copilot Vision for Windows as well as a more intuitive Copilot assistant. But Copilot's knowledge capabilities are also being improved with Copilot Search, Deep Research, podcasts, and Pages.
The podcasts and Pages features may seem familiar. Google unveiled a hidden feature that allowed users to upload their own documents on a certain topic, and Google's own AIs would create an engaging podcast about them. Microsoft appears to be doing the same.
Pages also feels like it's been done before, as Google also allows you to upload content to a workspace. Pages might be a bit more thorough, as it's designed to synthesize various research into a draft document.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAVywhF4p2Q
Microsoft also isn't the first to enable Deep Research, a feature that both ChatGPT and Google Gemini offer.
Deep Research can take several minutes, but the output is worth it. Deep Research can read several, even dozens, of web pages, synthesizing their content, then producing a research report based upon what it's read. It's a powerful tool and generally considered more accurate since the output is drawn from live web pages.
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