A Microsoft Perspective on Artificial Intelligence and the Future: AI-powered Windows Apps for Building and Using Companies to Support Workforces and Employees
The improvement of Windows for developers is just the beginning and will eventually lead to more artificial intelligence-powered apps on top of its new Arm- and Intel-based systems. While Microsoft is building the platform for developers to create AI apps for Windows, it’s now banking on this being an important part of the next decade of Windows development. At today’sBuild, in front of a slide that said “Windows is the most open platform for artificial intelligence,” Davuluri stood up and said it was important for Microsoft.
Adding contextual info to their apps that feeds into a database will lead to improvement of Windows’ recall feature. “This integration helps users pick up where they left off in your app, improving app engagement and users’ seamless flow between Windows and your app,” says Davuluri.
Microsoft says Copilot AI agents can soon be used as something like virtual employees that businesses can use for menial tasks like monitoring emails, carrying out a series of automated tasks, helping with employee onboarding, or doing data entry, all without being prompted to do so. The boring parts will not be taken over by the new Copilot abilities. Isn’t ” data entry” a part of a whole job description? The new capability will be in the preview later this year.
Developers will be able to use the Windows Copilot Library to integrate things like Studio Effects, filters, portrait blur, and other features into their apps. Meta is adding the Windows Studio Effects into WhatsApp, so you’ll get features like background blur and eye contact during video calls. Even Live Captions and the new AI-powered translation feature can be used by developers with little to no code.
The Copilot Plus PCs update with Windows 11 PowerToys: A new AI feature for storing and remembering all you do on your PC
Copilot Plus PCs will be able to store and remember everything on your PC, thanks to Microsoft’s recall AI feature. This is all powered by a new Windows Semantic Index that stores this data locally, and Microsoft plans to allow developers to build something similar.
Davuluri says the capability will be made available for developers to use in their applications and with their app data.
Microsoft’s new Advanced Paste feature is available now as part of the PowerToys suite for Windows 11, giving you the ability to convert the contents of your clipboard as you go. You can invoke the Advanced Paste menu by pressing the Windows keys, and then you will be able to convert your paste to other formats using further keyboard shortcuts. The prompt box, where you can paste the text before typing it, has other capabilities such as changing or summarizing the text. You have to have an OpenAI account with a key and credits in order to use the AI part.
Microsoft is working on a way to integrate Git into the file system browser, meaning you can keep track of your coding projects. The developers will be able to keep track of their files, commits, and branch from within the File Explorer. Also, the app now supports 7-zip and TAR compression natively.
Adding Emojis and Real-time Video Translation to Microsoft Teams and Windows Edge, and the Product Launch of Phi-3-vision
The $899 Snapdragon development kit for Windows has a Snapdragon XElite chip inside. It has plenty of ports, but is not certain if anyone can buy it.
Get ready for some disco parrots and cutouts of your teammates in Microsoft Teams because the company is adding the ability to add your own emoji in Microsoft’s Slack competitor. Like in slack, admins can limit who is permitted to add to it and they can’t be seen outside of the domain. They’re coming in July.
A real-time video translation feature is being added to Microsoft Edge, which can be used to watch videos from many websites such as YouTube and LinkedIn. The feature is available in Spanish, English, German, Hindi, Italian, and Russian. More languages and video platforms will be added in the future, according to Microsoft.
The company rolled out Phi-3-vision, a new version of the Phi-3 AI model it announced in April. It’s multimodal and can read text and look at pictures, but it’s a small language model that’s compact enough to work on a mobile device. There are some use cases in which artificial intelligence companies are pushing, and image analysis is one of them. Microsoft announced in April that it had launched a family of models called the Phi-33, and that the model is available for preview now.