I’ve been trying Microsoft Copilot for the past couple of days. I’ve been jumping around between Perplexity, Kagi Assistant, ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and Google’s Gemini trying to better understand which may work best for me long-term.

Copilot was recently updated with a simple and friendly UI. It’s nice to use. However, I don’t see any advanced features that power users will certainly want in their AI assistant. No projects, prompt configuration, no option to switch LLMs. The Pro version offers a simple “Think Deeper” button that, when clicked, switches to a more advanced model that helps the conversation go deeper. You’ll also get priority access and other perks with Pro.

There is a Copilot Daily feature that reads today’s top headlines. Today’s headlines included a public service message to turn off lights when not in use, and headlines about the Apex fossil in the NY museum, Trump’s goal to end daylight savings time, MicroStrategy to join Nasdaq-100 Index, Jared Padalecki’s holiday message, and incentives to attract new residents in other countries. Overall, a good mix and summary of each. It was convenient to listen to it the past couple of days. As far as the ongoing content, we’ll see.

It’s obvious Microsoft is trying to make Copilot the “everyday user’s” AI. Since Copilot is included front-and-center, for better or worse, on Windows machines going forward, they want it to be as simple as possible.

I’m not convinced any Power User will want to use it. But, I need more time with it to see if I’m missing anything. The Pro version of Copilot is the standard $20 per month. I’ll certainly need to try more advanced tasks to see if it’s even worth considering.