- Microsoft is implementing co -pilot indications on the new Edge tab page
- It is also implementing the ability to activate a web search that occurs with Co -cilot instead of bing
- The movements in the tests for Copilot to take care of the new tab page still seems to be in the pipe
Microsoft Edge is obtaining more co -pilot, with the assistant to reach the new website (or NTP) page in a more prominent way.
The NTP is what you see in the web browser when it opens a new tab, serving as a place to start exploring what you could do on the edge, which generally, but not always, will be a web search.
However, instead of that traditional consultation in the search box (which triggers a bing search, as expected), Microsoft would prefer that you use Copilot, since there is an icon for AI’s assistant just next to said web search option.
By clicking on that icon, it appears in the co -pilot on the web, ready for consultation, but with the last update of Edge version 136 (which was implemented earlier this month), Microsoft is implementing a more complete integration of the AI in the NTP.
Windows last reports that Microsoft explains in the notes of the version for the EDGE update that: “From the end of May 2025, users can see the suggested work and co -pilot indications related to productivity by their search box on the NTP page.”
These suggested indications are efforts in the line of ‘obtain advice’ or ‘write a first draft’ that invokes co -pilot to achieve the indicated task.
Microsoft also points out that some Edge users can also see the co -driver icon in the search box, and when clicking is clicking on the current search consultation, but sends it to Copilot instead of solving it.
ANALYSIS: COPILOT CONTEXT
In summary, Copilot is slowly gaining control on the new tab page, although the aforementioned capabilities are part of what Microsoft calls a “display of controlled features”, and I imagine that this will be a fairly slow and tentative matter. I still don’t have this function in my Edge browser, and neither is Windows the latest.
It is likely that the company wants to carry out this implementation at a leisurely pace because there are some Windows 11 users who distrust that IA crawls into more corners of the operating system and its various applications, which is certainly a goal of the intention to follow. Therefore, the temperature of the feedback is likely and regularly moving and regularly the path to follow for Microsoft.
However, it is likely to reach the Microsoft browser in the form of edge co -driver displayed by Windows Last (hidden in the Flags menu, as an experimental feature on the edge).
This seems to be the Microsoft plan that has already been seen in the tests, whereby the new tab page focuses much more on the co -pilot: read more about that here (and see the previous screen capture to see how this would look). It also throws the MSN food in favor of Copilot, which I think is a good compensation (although his opinion on that can vary, of course).
A second part of this co -pilot mode can be a less popular addition, namely the so -called “context clues” that take advantage of the website you are visiting, and its web history, to allow AI to provide better and more personal answers.
At this time some red flags appear, but we do not know how (or even if) this characteristic will be implemented, although it certainly seems to be allowing Copilot to access its navigation history. As such, it will surely be an optional (and opted) capacity, if any of this is done with Edge.
Remember, all this is still in the tests, except for the changes in the NTP that Microsoft has confirmed that they are now being implemented with Edge V136.
