Microsoft dropped its Copilot Plus PC name. The AI label lasted 2.5 years.
Microsoft is retiring the label it created for Windows laptops capable of running AI features locally, The Verge reported.
Microsoft's new 12-inch Surface Pro and 13-inch Surface Laptop meet the label's requirements, Windows Central reported, but a Surface executive told the site that neither will be called a Copilot Plus PC. A Qualcomm executive said other machines with the same features will "probably" drop the name too.
Recall was the label's best-known feature. It saves screen snapshots so users can search what they previously saw. The Verge wrote that it was not well received.
Microsoft plans to discuss the next chapter of local AI on 7 October, The Verge reported.
If your company chose laptops for the AI label, which of those features do staff actually use?
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Our file on Microsoft
- 8 Oct
Microsoft 365 reached 5,000 Dutch tax staff. Then the government stopped the move.
- 7 Oct
Games Workshop hoped for new finance software in 2020. Its old systems still run.
- 6 Oct
Microsoft planned $1 billion for employees using Claude. Then it cut over a third.
- 4 Oct
Microsoft started blocking a mailbox link apps used since 2007. No exceptions from April.
- 29 Sept
NVIDIA launched a safety net for AI agents. Microsoft and JPMorgan already use it.
For your next steering committee
- 1Ask which design decisions in your programme would be expensive to reverse, and when each was last reviewed.
- 2Ask which expected benefits change if the implementation approach changes.
- 3Ask who owns a decision to change course, and where it would be recorded.
Issue 01 of the ERP LEADERS brief puts a timeline, the three-number review and six questions on one page. Read issue 01
Welcome back. · Issue 01
