For its 50th anniversary, Microsoft is upgrading Copilot with new features, including booking tickets, making reservations, tracking prices, and using your phone’s camera to answer questions.

Microsoft says Copilot can now interact with most websites. That means if you ask it to do something like “send flowers to my partner” or “book a hotel for next weekend,” it can try to get it done without you needing to open another app or website. It’s already working with popular platforms like 1-800-Flowers, Booking.com, Kayak, Expedia, OpenTable, Priceline, Tripadvisor, Vrbo, and more.

Copilot also learned how to look for online deals. If you ask it to keep an eye on the price of something you want to buy, it will notify you when there’s a discount and share a link so you can purchase it.


While this sounds promising, Microsoft hasn’t explained exactly how well all this works or what happens if Copilot makes a mistake. And just like other AI tools, some websites might block Copilot if they don’t want it to access their services.

One of the more advanced features now allows Copilot to watch live video from your phone’s camera or analyze your photos. You can ask it things like “What kind of flower is this?” and it will try to answer. On Windows, Copilot can now also look at your screen and help you organize files, search settings, or perform basic tasks — but this will first roll out to people in Microsoft’s Insider Program.

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Another fun addition is the ability to turn online content into podcast-style audio. If you share a webpage or article with Copilot, it can generate a two-person conversation based on that content, which you can listen to like a podcast — and even interrupt to ask questions.

For those who like keeping their research organized, Copilot now includes a new feature called “Pages,” which helps you collect your notes and research in one place, like a digital notebook. It works with another feature called “Deep Research,” which lets the AI find and combine information from articles, documents, and images to answer more complex questions.

Copilot has also started remembering more about your preferences. It can remember your favorite foods, hobbies, and past conversations to offer more personalized help. But if that feels too personal, you can delete individual memories or stop Copilot from remembering anything at all using the settings dashboard.

These changes come as Microsoft looks to compete more strongly with ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini, which have both been adding new features quickly. Microsoft also hinted it may start using more of its own AI technology in Copilot, instead of relying mostly on OpenAI’s models.

The updated Copilot is rolling out in stages, starting with a limited release on Windows and mobile devices.