"The new Copilot app for Windows 11 is really just Microsoft Edge"
by bundie on 4/7/2026, 12:27:59 PM
https://twitter.com/TheBobPony/status/2041112541909205001
Comments
by: seemaze
It's worse than that. On my corporate mac when I try to login with Entra, the only option I get is a hyperlink to 'experience Copilot on the web'.<p>Also, it seems like all the Copilot 'connected experiences' are really just a chat window without any real integration with the applications they are embedded in. Claude is more useful in Excel than Copilot.. how? Microsoft's consistently incoherent and hobbled rollout of Copilot is why I find Anthropic's offerings so much better. It just allow me to get stuff done.<p>My one hope was that Copilot would solve the Microsoft documentation tarpit by leveraging enormous context to root out the answers to my questions. When chatGPT can finally one-shot Microsoft product queries with the correct platform, release, license, and 'gotchas'.. I'll know we've hit AGI.
4/7/2026, 2:10:55 PM
by: kstrauser
Is that like MS’s version of an Electron app? Aren’t most Electron apps just Chrom{e,ium} plus some JS to run inside it?<p>Asking seriously, not snarkily. That’s my understanding but maybe I’m wrong about it.
4/7/2026, 1:14:13 PM
by: Ciantic
What is the reason they don't use the WebView2? Microsoft Teams uses WebView2, surely it should be enough for Copilot. This defeats the whole point of having WebView builtin and shipped with the Windows 11.
4/7/2026, 2:29:48 PM
by: JanneVee
If I was to speculate, this is the result of "rank n' yank" where the performative productivity is more important than actual productivity. If true it says something about why AI is pushed hard by Microsoft, it make performative productivity much more easier.
4/7/2026, 1:42:01 PM
by: layer8
More informative article: <a href="https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/04/05/new-copilot-for-windows-11-includes-a-full-microsoft-edge-package-uses-more-ram/" rel="nofollow">https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/04/05/new-copilot-for-win...</a><p>It seems to actually use a modified copy of Edge in a subfolder.
4/7/2026, 1:49:16 PM
by: zamadatix
One of the comments led to an article which really goes into the details of what exactly is packaged here <a href="https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/04/05/new-copilot-for-windows-11-includes-a-full-microsoft-edge-package-uses-more-ram/" rel="nofollow">https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/04/05/new-copilot-for-win...</a>
4/7/2026, 1:42:13 PM
by: ygra
So, like edit.com and QBasic. What is old is new again.
4/7/2026, 1:26:11 PM
by: OnionBlender
I'm forced to use Copilot at work. I can't resize the font size and there is usually a delay when typing in it for the first time. In Outlook, it often opens the side panel on its own.
4/7/2026, 2:47:21 PM
by: ThePowerOfFuet
<a href="https://xcancel.com/TheBobPony/status/2041112541909205001" rel="nofollow">https://xcancel.com/TheBobPony/status/2041112541909205001</a>
4/7/2026, 3:09:03 PM
by: nchmy
I used edge ever since it was chromium-based, but I moved to linux and vivaldi 6 months ago and never looked back.
4/7/2026, 1:45:23 PM
by: aquir
this is hilarious! I wish I was a fly on the wall when this decision was made...
4/7/2026, 1:47:47 PM
by: fortran77
Every electron app is really just a browser, isn't it?
4/7/2026, 1:21:52 PM
by: BoredPositron
That's hilarious. I wonder how many edge versions are deployed in a standard install.
4/7/2026, 1:02:20 PM
by: BorisMelnik
why does Microsoft just not listen to its people
4/7/2026, 2:36:24 PM
by: elwray
wow. I wonder how this was found out originally?
4/7/2026, 1:12:35 PM
by: heliumtera
Any webpage you see is really just chromium. All new product you see from today startups are really just post request to the cheapest inference provider
4/7/2026, 1:43:18 PM
by: throwuxiytayq
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4/7/2026, 1:07:02 PM