Highlights from Microsoft Build 2023: Windows Copilot, Bing‑ChatGPT Integration, Native Archive Support, Dev Home, and AI Development Tools
The Microsoft Build 2023 conference showcased a range of AI‑focused innovations—including Windows Copilot, Bing as ChatGPT's built‑in search, native archive support in Windows 11, the new Dev Home productivity hub, Windows Terminal's GitHub Copilot X integration, and extensive Windows‑on‑ARM advancements—signaling a strong push toward AI‑enabled development across the Windows ecosystem.
Microsoft Build 2023 opened in person for the first time since 2019, with a theme heavily centered on artificial intelligence and its integration across Windows tools.
Microsoft announced Windows Copilot , an AI assistant embedded in a sidebar on Windows 11 that can summarize, rewrite, and explain content; it will be available in the Windows 11 preview starting June.
In a major partnership, Bing will become the built‑in search engine for ChatGPT, with the integration rolling out to ChatGPT Plus users and soon to all users via a plugin, expanding the reach of AI‑driven search.
Windows 11 added native support for additional compression formats—including tar, 7‑zip, rar, and gz—through the open‑source libarchive library, enabling extraction of these formats directly in the OS (though RAR creation remains unsupported).
Microsoft introduced Dev Home , an open‑source developer productivity hub for Windows 11 that centralizes workflow tracking, app and package installation, automated environment setup, GitHub account integration, and customizable widgets.
The default Windows Terminal will integrate GitHub Copilot X , offering inline command suggestions, error explanations, and conversational assistance, while also supporting tab dragging to create independent windows.
Significant progress was reported for Windows on ARM : the Windows Dev Kit 2023, Visual Studio 17.6 with MAUI support, C++ Linux development, LLVM cross‑compilation, Node 20 native ARM support, WiX v4 for ARM installers, and a growing ecosystem including Qt, CMake, Bazel, OpenSSL, Python, Unity Player GA, and upcoming GNU GCC, Flutter, PyTorch, and GIMP.
Microsoft emphasized that all Windows developers can become AI developers through the Hybrid Loop model, leveraging ONNX Runtime as a gateway to run AI models on devices or the cloud, supporting hybrid inference scenarios and seamless switching between local and cloud resources.
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