How much do you want AI to remember about you?

That’s the question Microsoft’s beginning to answer with a big new update to Copilot.

Up until now, Copilot has been useful for quick tasks. Summarising text, drafting emails, or answering questions. But it doesn’t really hold onto much about you.

Every time you start fresh, it’s almost like meeting it for the first time. That limits how “personal” it can ever feel.

But now that’s changing.

Microsoft is adding memory management to Copilot. That means you’ll have more control over what it remembers.

You can explicitly tell it to “remember this”, and in upcoming updates you’ll get a full memory management page where you can see exactly what’s stored.

Then you can either edit or delete details whenever you like.

In other words, Copilot can build up useful context about you and your business, but you stay firmly in control of what it keeps and what it forgets.

Why does this matter?

Think about the time saved if Copilot could remember the way your team writes reports, the names of your key clients, or the formats you prefer for proposals.

Instead of re-explaining the same information repeatedly, you could just get on with the work.

And if something changes, say a client’s details or your preferred style, you can update or clear that memory instantly.

There’s another important piece to this update too: Connectors.

Copilot can already link to OneDrive. Soon it will be able to connect to Google Drive as well.

That means you’ll be able to ask Copilot to fetch documents, summarise a folder of files, or even surface insights from stored data without opening each file manually.

Over time, more services are expected to be added, giving businesses a much more joined-up way to work with their information.

These features are rolling out across the web, Windows 11, and mobile devices, with some likely to be free and others possibly reserved for Copilot’s paid tier in the future.

Copilot is moving towards being a smarter, more personal assistant that learns from you, while keeping you in the driver’s seat.

And that balance could be key.

The more Copilot remembers, the more useful it becomes. But the fact that you get to decide what it keeps means you can take advantage of that power without sacrificing control.

If you’d like to see what Copilot could do for your business, get in touch.