Windows is malware.
Yes, and it won’t get better. There is no effective regulation against this kind of stuff. US big tech companies are basically (not theoretically/legally, but in practice) allowed to steal everything from their consumers what they want these days, just like AI companies violate copyrights on a massive scale.
In the EU, the US big tech companies already managed to pull off a regulatory capture of the Irish Data Protection agency, the one responsible for all US big tech companies operating in Europe, the one that is theoretically supposed to ensure data protection. Because that agency is being headed by a former Meta lobbyist. That means there will be effectively zero repercussion for US big tech breaking copyright, privacy, data protection or other such laws in the EU, despite the EU having some of the strongest data protection laws in theory. They will all be not mostly, but fully, ignored. There were never many repercussions before, and fines had symbolic character at best, but now they can all go completely unhinged, and on top of that the US will also add political pressure on countries which dare to hold US-based companies accountable under local laws. Since many EU countries and/or UK are essentially digital colonies of US tech companies I don’t think there will be much resistance. There are tons of self-inflicted painful dependencies on the US dollar, on US-based credit cards, on US-based cloud providers, on US-based payment providers, … for the EU, the US turning rogue is massively painful, but this outcome was already predictable decades ago, yet nothing was being done about it.
And so MS will absolutely enshittify Windows even more to harvest more and more data and feed their AI models, and there will be zero repercussion, except that Windows will continue to slowly decline and desktop Linux will continue to slowly climb up. It’s just a matter of time. It’s just sad that MS gets away with all that crap. The people who value data protection or privacy have already left the MS world long ago. The rest will simply get looted - all your personal and work life (including a lot of your customers’ data) belongs to MS (and, by extension, to the US) if you continue to use their software and services.
I have to use Teams for work. Every time I upload a PowerPoint it’s 30s of waiting before I can put it into presentation mode, and the error message if I hammer the button is " we’re still loading your PowerPoint", and I can SEE it’s already loaded. The event that marks when I can hit the button? Is when the search bar turns into a copilot prompt bar.
User/IT error.
Don’t you ever get sick of just being the eternal contrarian for absolutely no reason?
I’m not in the mood today, CallMeAnAI. Go troll somewhere else.
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Microsoft is run entirely by incompetent idiots.
How does one disable copilot in Word? The things I’ve thought of don’t seem to work or it wouldn’t let me do.
Installing Libreoffice should work
Work computer. Not allowed.
Open a request ticket. You never know until you ask.
They won’t even let us have Firefox.
Then it’s work’s problem. Don’t use it for personal things (which, really, you shouldn’t do anyway for basically the same reason).
True. I keep that shit on-campus and don’t cross-contaminate.
Also pretty funny when coworkers are annoyed by work emails showing up on their phones and I’m just like “give me a work phone, then.”
Honest answer? Uninstall and reinstall with modified install instructions to only install the last version pre-copilot integration and disable updates.
The other options are more like ‘turn off this copilot button’ not an actual disable.Thanks! I wondered if it would be something like this.
I did this and annoyingly it just so happens the last pre-copilot version (i beleive) also has the old grey toobars & interface, rather than the white & colorful versions.
I’m quite sure they still upload it, but they don’t wait for it to process (and give you hints and tips or whatever).
If you use Wireshark you can see what is going on.
TLS encrypted traffic
To be fair, you can see TLS traffic. It isn’t invisible, just opaque.
A stream suddenly as soon as you paste that goes off to Akamai is certainly suspicious, and probably related.
You can use Charles Proxy with their certificate on windows
Netsh trace
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Soon we will need a program to make settings in our program.
A “Windows Manager Manager”
Maybe it’s an O365 thing. I don’t have any Copilot options in Word, checked instructions from various sources, nada. But it is slow to paste. Oh well, got the license free from work, not a subscription. Only use word for unserious shit like making a flea market sign.
Once again, a “Windows evil” post that I cannot replicate, don’t have the invasive things I’m supposed to be seeing, no issue. I have a feeling I disabled a bunch of BS on the original install, which started on 10, same SSD in 3 PCs. Also, it’s a vanilla ISO, that probably helps a lot.
