Pavan Davuluri
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So that's, I think, sort of the layer cake at the bottom.
People expect the trust and capability of Windows as a platform.
The exciting thing that we have when we think about productivity and unlocking productivity, one of our big learnings has been most customers are familiar with the Windows UX today.
They understand how to get their jobs done.
It's the place where they're productive all day long.
They use it for a variety of instances.
And so a lot of our thinking has been on how do we have AI come into your workflow as you have it today?
How can Copilot be of an assistance to you in the world that you're already operating in?
The simplest example I can think of is the interaction layers in Windows.
And so we've had mouse and keyboard, they've been a stable for computing for many decades.
And then we've added capabilities like pen and touch, for example, in the most recent decades.
And now with AI in terms of unlocking productivity, interacting with a new modality, with voice and vision for Copilot, we think is particularly powerful and interesting for a set of users who want to be productive and multitasking and be able to find AI, have it serve itself.
kind of when they're in the workflow.
And so one of the big features that we talked about in October and we have now available for commercial customers as well and Microsoft 365 customers is the ability for Microsoft 365 Copilot to have voice support in Windows, voice capability in Windows.
The other big one is the taskbar, integration into the taskbar.
It is a familiar place for Windows users.
It's a place where
There's hundreds of millions of people who use the taskbar and its features on a daily basis.
So Ask Copilot in the taskbar is one of these places where we've gotten a strong signal for customers wanting to interact with the copilot.
Just similar to how they do file search and photos and apps and settings today, it's a natural intuitive place for them to go.