Microsoft Copilot Can Now Fly in the Right Seat of Your Google Account

Who’d have thought they’d see another day when Microsoft played nice with Google. Beginning this past week, Microsoft began slowly introducing a Windows update that hooks into users’ Google apps (via opt-in permissions) Copilot to perform cross-app searches and tasks.

Copilot is Microsoft’s generative AI that competes against Google Gemini, OpenAI ChatGPT, and Anthropic Claude. Now that it plays nicely with several Google apps, Windows users can use AI to search through their computer’s files, email accounts, contact lists, and more.

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Alongside Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft OneDrive, which are obvious integrations, the Windows update also allows you to hook Copilot into Google Drive, Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Contacts.

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