Microsoft makes Copilot Vision free for Edge users in the US
Microsoft has launched a new feature called Copilot Vision. This functionality allows Microsoft’s AI to literally see what users see on their screens, offering insights and assistance as they browse.
While it may sound similar to Windows Recall, it is actually closer to Google's Gemini Live sharing feature which, coincidentally, has been made free for all Android users. Microsoft had some sweet news of its own, it has announced that Copilot Vision is now available free of charge for Edge users, but there is a catch. It is only available for users in the United States.
Copilot Vision was initially available only to paid subscribers of the Copilot Pro plan, but it has now expanded its reach to a wider audience. It has been designed to optimize hands-free interaction, and allows users to communicate naturally with Copilot Vision. For instance, users can open a web page and ask questions about it, and the AI will respond to your query, by analyzing the contents on the screen. In addition to voice interactions, users can still type queries to the AI as needed.
Users can visit the official website to try the feature. Copilot Vision is rather limited in its current state. Windows Central reports that the feature is only compatible with nine websites for now: Wikipedia, Amazon, Food & Wine, Tripadvisor, Target, OpenTable, Williams Sonoma, Wayfair, and Geoguessr. Microsoft has indicated that it plans to broaden compatibility, enhancing the feature's utility.
Despite its innovative capabilities, the introduction of Copilot Vision has ignited debates about privacy and data security. Many are apprehensive about AI features that analyze screen content. Microsoft is taking a cautious approach to roll out the feature, particularly in light of recent criticism surrounding Windows Recall, a function that captures screenshots every five seconds. Following criticism, Microsoft delayed this feature, but has since proceeded with its plans after making necessary adjustments, which it says will ensure enhanced security.
Microsoft states that it only logs Copilot's responses to the user, and that it does not collect any input, image or content from web pages during a Copilot Vision session.
Google on the other hand claims users love Gemini Live video and screen sharing, and it is evident Microsoft wants its own product to not only compete, but succeed in the AI market.
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@ SkyNet,
“I am sure it had exploits like any other OS”
SHOW ME THE CODE. Tests on YouTube mean nothing. Unless you can audit the source code, you don’t know what it is capable of doing, nor can you declare with any certainty that it has no telemetry, spyware, etc.
Don’t be Microsoft’s clown mouth, their days are numbered.
@ SkyNet:
> Windows XP was the best version of windows..and Spyware FREE!
Really? Can you show me where, how, and when you audited Windows XP to determine it didn’t have any spyware? Because it sure had a lot of reported remote exploits and probably more since it hasn’t received security updates.
It’s proprietary (non-free, black box) software.
I am sure it had exploits like any other OS does these days.The OS itself did not had telemetry (aka Spyware) like windows has today…there are plenty of Wndows XP tests on youtube about this
Microsoft is not in the business of building and makign an operating system. They are now in the business of extracting information they can usee to train their AI and also sell. You are now the product.
Ask yourself why they are giving away the OS for free. This for free. That for free. They want widespread adoption is why.
Before you even have windows installed you are presented with no less than a few dozen questions around if you want to be spied upon or not. Does this sound like something an OS should be doing? Asking you if you want to be personally identified for “relevant” ad purposes.
Once you have the OS installed you should go through a further 100 settings to make sure that they still cant spy on you. Any notification left on will be used to push ads to your screen.
The OS is no longer concerned about anything but pushing ads to you.
October 2025 is when my 30 year windows experience dies. I am moving over to linux when they stop supporting windows 10.
Anybody that still uses windows in 2025 needs to have their head examined to determine if they are capable of recognizing what an abusing relationship is.
Is Microsoft collectively on drugs???? Who wants their AI looking over their shoulder as they use their computer? Yep, I still say have two computers: one running air-gapped from the internet entirely and another for very limited contact with the internet.
You will be assimilated. Comply.
I liked Windows better when it was mostly just a OS with a few useful tools. Now its become Microsoft’s platform for pushing all their products onto you whether you want them or not.
Windows XP was the best version of windows..and Spyware FREE!
Windows is genuinely better not updated…
Disable windows update if you want stability. Has been true for 15+ years, keep up mate.
I work at an MSP that supports 80+ companies. You still have all the security measures in place, of course – but this is just anti-windows yapping – sad to say you guys. don’t know a thing.
You would think that working at an MSP that supports more than 80+ companies, i would understand that security measures need to come in from updates.
But this is what they teach me, working at an MSP that supports 80+ companies. Data breaches in 2019 happened because of unapplied security patches contained in updates. Some of the biggest breaches related to unapplied updates include firms like Equifax, The Home Depot, and Uber.
And Now…
4Chan, likely breached because it used a severely outdated PHP version from 2016, unpatched against many security vulnerabilities that could’ve been exploited in the attack,
Everyone should just take my advice on this website.
Not to update Windows because it’s genuinely better not updated…
It seems you just wanted the world to know you are “an MSP that supports 80+ companies”…
Someone has taken my comment from a different article, modified it heavily, and re-posted it under my name. High level trolling.
I am not sure how to word this… So let me just ask… Do you think it will it make adult web content better or worse?
Microsoft, a convicted monopoly, with all it’s billions, couldn’t build a web browser themselves. Instead, they took from Google. Sad.
Anyone who uses Windows, a kingdom of rootkits, should be publically shamed.
American tech companies have turned into a bunch of rudderless ships. What a pile of junk.
They give it away for FREE because you will be the product in the near future. Bombarding you with ads 24/7, LOL
“This functionality [Copilot Vision] allows Microsoft’s AI to literally see what users see on their screens, offering insights and assistance as they browse.”
What insights and assistance may AI bring to the user by seeing exactly what he sees on his screen?
I really cannot understand, maybe because as they say, I cannot “conceptualize”.
In what is the dedicated AI going to assist me in what I see?
Something like “This is a Webpage, on the top you have the page’s navigation bar, on the left you have a drop-down menu, in the middle you have the article, on the right you have the advertisements. If you cannot find the advertisements it’s because you use an ad-blocker. Remove the ad-blocker if you wish me to further help you understand what you see on your screen” …
Besides that, be noted that most of us understand what they see (besides UFOs), maybe not always what they read, differentiate a cat from a bird. I just do *not* understand the pertinence of this ‘Copilot Vision’.
Help, I need somebody, help, not just anybody … In this case anybody :)
“What insights and assistance may AI bring to the user by seeing exactly what he sees on his screen?”
Brave has AI on the side panel if you choose to use it. So far, it can summarize a webpage or give you a suggestion to explore further. Nothing special that can not be done by just putting a webpage address in any chat box.
@boris, “Nothing special that can not be done by just putting a webpage address in any chat box”. Or by summarizing by ourselves and letting our brains suggest further explorations. Summarizing requires quite a deal of intelligence, especially with lengthy writings, and I’ve seen some AI summaries miss important points. As for exploring further, hence bouncing, hence finding trans-topic bridges (and, further than trans-disciplinary findings, so called interdisciplinary paths), this is a brain specialty given the tremendous amount of interconnections it is able to establish. Having a chat do this all not only is risky in terms of results’ quality but before all tremendously dangerous in that it induces brain laziness : brains like bodies need fitness, cerebral fitness as compared to physical fitness. Let AI calculate missile trajectories, but let us do what we can do, better though more slowly. AI brought to the masses is the worst thing which happened in our emerging digital era.
I did not compare what Brave AI does with what human brain can do. I just said that its “in page AI” does exactly the same thing as any other AI chatbot does with the same input.
@boris, agreed. Obviously I interpreted your answer.
Its free until its not.
Once MS fills up your device with their free softwares, its no longer yours.
Then they have you.
They have your wallet.
A meltdown over a word – free – seems to be the order of the day.
Folks, try not to read into a comment.
Sorry for mild meltdown. I have been on Internet for 33 years and almost every “free” service right now has a price whether you see it or not. Especially coming from top corporations. Got jilted, I guess. I forget that some people can come to this forum with less jilted experience.
What are you talking about? You do not own Windows, just buying a license. Most Browsers are on the surface free, but you are paying by telemetry data, watching advertising and using the default search engine. Nothing is free because it has to be created and maintained. I do not mind this concept as long as it is disclosed and has options. Problem is that they never disclose anything or hiding it in page 5000 of Terms and Conditions.
“Nothing is free because it has to be created and maintained.”. Perhaps major companies have in mind a bit more than a fair retribution for their R&D and maintenance costs. Profit. Who’s against profit, indeed. Problems arise when profits are disproportionate, and them being disproportionate is the very aim of monopolies aiming the divine money->power->money infinite loop. The relationship at this time between users of digital tools and corporations is equivalent to hard labor payed a dime an hour, such as in some Far-East countries : we are exploited kids in the paradise of Neo-capitalism, that of surveillance, brain-washing, intoxication and manipulation. Business philosophy has changed.
I think I have the same opinion on how capitalism is abused right now. The point I was trying to make is that we should get open disclosure: for everything we are getting for “free”, we should have honest price disclosure for the future. Are you going to implement subscriptions? How much tracking/in app/browser/windows advertising are you planning? Basically, what is the endgame of your investment for me? And if a company is not willing to share this information, I am not investing my time exclusively in these new “free” features. I would use multiple similar services, getting ready to switch from one to another at the moment of notice. Long was the time of my Google/Firefox exclusivity.
@boris, such an attitude would be most valuable but efficient if adopted by many, by more than many, in other words by enough to impose a clean and healthy transaction basis. We are no longer in the sixties, revolt has been replaced by resignation when not by a deliberate choice to prefer “free” services at the cost of our dignity but also of our very mental sanity. Yet, as mahatma Gandhi has written is his “Letters to the Ashram” : ‘Truth waits for no votes’ or, more prosaically, 100% of the winners of the Lottery had a ticket. If one gambles for money why wouldn’t he gamble for a better world even if the odds aren’t in his favor? From there on maybe can we consider, each and everyone of us, that adopting such an attitude as the one you describe remains pertinent. It is not politically driven but only the expression of fundamental rights. It is my position, together with many others, though with too few, at this time, to change things. But time often operates for the best, I’d even say that ultimately the best imposes itself, yet the end of the tunnel may appear later than it takes for a life to rejoice.
Spying for free. What a bargain. :) It basically does the same job that Recall will do, but even more invasively.