If you’ve ever been in the middle of a conversation with Copilot, you clicked a link, and then lost your place trying to get back to where you were, you already know how frustrating that interruption feels.
Every link opens in your browser, your train of thought breaks, and suddenly you’re managing tabs across two separate apps instead of staying in one place.
It’s a small friction point, but it happens often enough to become genuinely annoying. Microsoft is addressing it with a new update to the Copilot app on Windows, and it’s a fix that’s been a long time coming.
Microsoft Copilot app update
The links you click inside Copilot now open in a side pane directly alongside your conversation. Everything stays in one place, with no browser window launching separately and no need to switch back and forth between apps.
Microsoft took it further than just that. With your permission, Copilot can now read the content of the tabs you open within a conversation.
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If your research spans several pages, you can ask Copilot to summarize them, pull out differences between sources, or help you put together a first draft based on what you’ve been reading. Those tabs are saved alongside the conversation, too, so you can close everything and pick up exactly where you left off.
For an additional layer of convenience, you can also enable password sync, which means logging into sites while you’re in the middle of research doesn’t pull you out of your workflow.
Microsoft Copilot app update is more than just a browser fix
The update also brings general performance improvements, making the app faster and more stable for day-to-day use. Microsoft is pulling in Podcasts and the Study and Learn mode from Copilot.com, adding them directly to the Windows app.
A few existing features are being temporarily removed while Microsoft refines the overall experience. The company says priority features will be back before the updated app rolls out to everyone.
It’s a focused update rather than a dramatic overhaul, but the changes address real friction points that affect how useful Copilot is during an actual working session.
The update, version 146.0.3856.39 and above, is rolling out now through Windows Insider channels and will gradually reach Insiders worldwide from there.
