“You may see the agent make mistakes or encounter challenges with complex interfaces, which is why real-world testing of this experience is so critical to help us apply learnings to make this experience more capable and streamlined,” said Mehdi.
The company published a blog post outlining several measures to help users access Copilot Actions securely.
The tool will be disabled by default, for instance, and will have access to only a “limited set” of a user’s local folders — such as Documents, Downloads, Desktop, and Pictures — as well as other files accessible to all accounts on a system. “Only when the user provides authorization can Copilot Actions access data outside of these folders,” said Dana Huang, corporate vice president for Windows Security at Microsoft.
