- An error in recent updates for Windows 11 and 10 Deleted Copilot accidentally
- Microsoft has quickly determined this and reinstated the Copilot app
- The company will undoubtedly be looking to forget this weird episode in the AI assistant’s story just as quickly
Microsoft has rushed a patch to put Copilot back in Windows 11 (and Windows 10), after the latest update round for its operating systems deleted the app to the AI assistant (for some users, anyway).
In what is one of the more head-cracking bugs we have seen from Microsoft in the recent past and it has some competition that makes no mistake-the most important introduction to Windows 11 as far as AI was accidentally removed from some PCs.
Windows latest noted that the correction has now landed and observed that Microsoft updated its support documents to affected versions of Windows, which are Windows 11 24H2 and 23H2, and also Windows 10.
Microsoft tells us, “This problem is resolved and the affected devices are returned to their original state.”
So if the Copilot app has disappeared from your desktop, it will soon be returned to its rightful place, although it may take some time before the cure is pushed to all affected systems.
As Microsoft also notices, if you can’t wait, you can reinstall the Copilot application yourself. You can find it in the Microsoft store (and once re -installed, you can also manually attach it to the taskbar).
Analysis: A predictably quick response to a confusing bug
Windows latest also observed that Microsoft was holding it rather under the radar and kept its well -known problem updates (including resolution) right to the respective support documents for Windows versions instead of marking this in the overall Windows Health Dashboard.
However, this is not surprising, and in fact the quick solution is no surprise either. Let’s realize it, this was a red-age level of embarrassment here-microsoft pushing hard to drive copilot adoption, so to trench the AI app mistakenly from some Windows 11 devices that were pretty to shoot themselves in the foot, to say the least.
Obviously, it was not a difficult solution, and in any case, as Microsoft has pointed out, it was not difficult to fix the problem even by simply reinstalling the copilot app manually.
As a last thought, here is an interesting question to consider: How many of the affected PCs that had removed copilot even noticed that the AI assistant was missing? If you never call the Copilot app, you may not even noticed that the icon will disappear from the taskbar. I am betting that a few people will have fallen into that category …
That said, it should be noted that as far as I know was only a relatively small set of Windows 11 (and 10) users affected by the vanishing copilot error in the first place, so the overall influence was probably limited, anyway. As mentioned, this is more of a PR -embarrassment to Microsoft than anything else, but it is definitely a strange mistake to have occurred.
