- Microsoft is experimenting with a new recommendation in the start -menu
- It is effective an ad for copilot (and Microsoft 365 Copilot)
- Recommendations include requests to write a draft, create an image or just shoot up a query
Windows 11 could get another thin blurry ad from the starting menu and this time it is for Copilot.
Windows latest reports that Phantomofearth highlighted steps to X, but note that Microsoft is just experimenting with this idea at the moment in test buildings of Windows 11, so you won’t see this yet.
It is not surprising that Microsoft’s search to add copilot buttons to everything in Windows 11 has reached the start menu.August 16, 2025
Nudge to use Copilot appears in the ‘Recommended’ section in the Start Menu, where Microsoft points out apps and services that it thinks you may find useful (read: trying to sell you), as well as recently used apps or files.
As you want to see if you look at the four screens that are delivered on X, there are recommendations to use either regular copilot or Microsoft 365 copilot. The latter is the business targeted subscription version, and I suppose the former is what will be presented to the average consumer.
These consist of prompts to either just shoot up copilot to answer an inquiry or use AI to write a first draft.
However, Windows latest some graves and found references to other spins on these recommendations in Windows 11. It includes getting Copilot to create a picture or suggestion to ‘teach me a few ways that Copilot can help me with my productivity,’ which opens Microsoft 365 copilot.
Analysis: Starting to get annoyed?
Not surprising things that have happened this week, number 28: Microsoft Muller The idea of Pushing AI functionality a little more in Windows 11. Of course, we have to remember that this is just experimentation at the moment -the leak on X does not make it clear if this is hidden in Windows 11 -Preview -Builds, but I assume this is the case (the findings that Windows latest has made are determined).
At least I would bet on some cash that this is something that eventually makes the cut for admission to Windows 11. Although we don’t really need more asked to use Copilot, there’s already a big button for AI on the taskbar, after all.
To be fair to Microsoft, the good news is that if you are not fond of recommendations in the start menu like this, the company recently introduced the opportunity to turn them off in Windows 11 (after this option was discovered in the test for a while back).
To do this, go to settings and go to Personalization> StartWhere you want to see a slider to the following: ‘Show recommended files in the start, recent files in File Explorer and objects in Jumplist’. Just turn this off, but note that you are losing the other bits and pieces, including recent files marked in File Explorer (which is the app that shows the folders on your desk).
