To quickly add 200 million unwilling new Copilot users for the next shareholder report since nobody's buying the Microslop? Not that it's a good reason, but that's my guess.

Come on, Satya’s bonus depends on it!

As it currently exists on other platforms, Gaming Copilot lets you ask guide-like questions about the game you're currently playing. Microsoft's official site offers an example question like "Can you remind me what materials I need to craft a sword in Minecraft?"

I haven't used consoles for a few generations, but historically, switching between a game and a Web browser on a console wasn't all that great, and text entry wasn't all that great. I dunno if things have improved, but it was definitely a pain in the neck to refer to a website in-game historically.

On Linux, Wayland, I swap between fullscreen desktops when playing games, and often have a Web browser with information relevant to the game on another desktop. If it helps enable some approximation of a workflow like that for console players, that doesn't sound unreasonable.

There are other objections I'd have, like not really wanting someone logging what my voice sounds like or giving Microsoft even more data on me to profile with via my searches. But it sounds to me like the basic functionality has a point.

I'll preface by saying I don't think it's a good idea, but-

Fallout TV Show (and friends) have brought a lot of new people to gaming that might have eschewed it before, a lot of those people have no idea what they're doing in videogames.

An 'AI assistant' could help in a face-saving way (consider a 60 year old father who's never played, and possibly chastised games in the past, is now getting into Fallout NV due to the TV show - asking their kids that they ridiculed about games would be embarrassing, but asking an AI may not be)

Basically, letting old people who hated videogames, play videogames.

Hey... Not to worry. The goal is for us to be forced to use proprietary, AI ridden malware. Android is locking down, age verification and hardware level scanning laws are coming to every western nation. They would never just outlaw Linux but they could neuter its freedom and autonomy. Privacy ROMs will be banned soon, either explicitly or by being made near impossible to get. Every device, every interaction online, every communication, will be scanned for state approved guidelines.

Thiel, the Heritage Foundation, the Elsons, and a bunch of rich fucks and companies want to control every single part of your life. Mark my words when I tell you, if they get their way in the future, we'll all be slaves (literal slaves, not wage slaves) and neurolinks will be forced in every single person. These people are disgusting and sick

Microslop has always failed upwards.

AI Georg, who asks for this 10,000 times per day, is an outlier and should not have been counted

Data miners. Mining minors.

There's one person. He is bald and has a very chokeable trachea.

No. But you can use it to get misinformation.

Good news you can have it for free! Oh and don’t worry, it’ll automatically be included with the next update!

*all non-F2P multiplayer games

My copilot totally has a sexier voice than yours...

Why was Microsoft ever your hero?