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Engadget • • technology
Key Points:
- Microsoft is rolling out a visual overhaul for Copilot in Microsoft 365, aiming to create a more consistent and streamlined AI assistant experience across apps like Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
- The new Copilot interface adopts a mostly black-and-white, text-focused design to improve readability and responsiveness while maintaining a presence that is "felt but not imposing."
- Enhancements include a dynamic "prompt surface" that expands to reveal additional functions as users type, and a consistent side pane for Copilot across all Microsoft 365 apps that collapses when not in use.
- These design changes currently apply only to Microsoft's productivity software, while the consumer-facing Copilot in the mobile app retains its colorful and playful appearance.
- Microsoft may extend this more subdued design to other Copilot versions in the future, depending on the direction of its AI strategy.