- A bug in recent updates for accidentally deleted Windows 11 and 10
- Microsoft quickly corrected this and restored the Copilot application
- Society will undoubtedly seek to forget this strange episode in the history of the assistant I have just as quickly
Microsoft has rushed to a correction to put Copilot back in Windows 11 (and Windows 10), after the last series of updates for its operating systems deleted the application for the AI assistant (for some users, anyway).
In what is one of the most scraping bugs to the head we have seen from Microsoft in the recent past – and there is a certain competition there, do not be mistaken – the key introduction for Windows 11 regarding AI has been accidentally deleted from certain PCs.
Windows has noticed that the correction has now landed and observed that Microsoft has updated its assistance documents for affected Windows versions, which are Windows 11 24h2 and 11:2 p.m., as well as Windows 10.
Microsoft tells us: “This problem has been solved and the assigned devices are returned to their original state.”
So, if the Copilot application has disappeared from your office, it will soon be returned to its legitimate place, although it can take a little time for the remedy to be pushed to all affected systems.
As Microsoft also notes, if you can’t wait, you can manually reinstall the co-pilot application yourself. You will find it in the Microsoft Store (and once it is installed, you can also brocher it in the taskbar).
Analysis: a quickly predictable response to a disconcerting bug
Windows also observed that Microsoft kept it rather under the radar, keeping its known problem updates (including resolution) just to the respective support documents for Windows versions, rather than reporting it in the Windows Health Global dashboard.
It is not surprising, however, and indeed the hunger is not a surprise either. Let’s face it, it was a level of embarrassment on the red alert here – Microsoft pushes hard to lead the adoption of co -pilot, so abandon the AI wrongly application from certain Windows 11 devices was rather in the foot, to say the least.
Clearly, it was not a difficult solution, and in any case, as Microsoft pointed out, it was not difficult to correct the problem yourself by manually reinstalling the Copilot application.
In a final thought, here is an interesting question to think: how many affected PCs that had removed the co -pilot even noticed that the AI assistant lacked? If you never invoke the Copilot application, you may not even have noticed the icon that was missing in the taskbar. I bet few people will have fallen into this category …
That said, it should be noted that as far as I know, only a relatively small set of Windows 11 users (and 10) was struck by the disappearance co -pilot bug in the first place, so the overall impact was probably limited, anyway. As mentioned, it is more an embarrassment of public relations for Microsoft than anything else, but it is certainly a strange error to have occurred.
