There’s an easier way. Switch to Linux. It’s good now, and only going to get better with more adoption.
I would love to, but unfortunately our work requires windows due to the software packages we use. And no, I really don’t want to run a virtual machine for CAD.
May allow
The benevolence! Your own computer can do whatever you want it to… if MS agrees to it.
Your computer, their software.
Hardware alone is not a working computer. If you control the software running on your computer then that software is yours (like it’s your book on your bookshelf even though another person owns the copyright). If someone else controls your computer then that erodes your ownership of it.
damn Microsoft is asking for lindom
“Allow”
Fuck you, Microsoft. You and Apple have lost millions of users to Linux, and I’m here for it.
“allow”
Feels like accident forgiveness from insurance, right
FYI: as a user, you are already allowed to uninstall Windows and switch to Linux
Business has spoken, consumers have spoken. No one wants AI right now. Large companies trying to out compete each other on LLM is stupid. Time for the bubble to pop before more people get hurt.
No one wants AI right now.
I don’t know why anyone would ever want “AI” on their workstation let alone in a production environment. Its like a calculator that works 94% of the time, useless and distracting. Or like a bowl of candy where only one is poison, why would you want that?
IT admins should already know how to do it without Macroslop‘s permission.
IT admin here, we certainly do know how to do it, and already have. It’s an appx package, and it’s really not difficult to remove.
Let us remove Microslop
But you can!
may
admins
Fuck Microsoft
You know what Microsoft doesn’t have to allow you? Install Linux on your own device!
There have been devices that forbid disabling SecureBoot or enrolling your own keys, and only boot loaders that microsoft signed are allowed to boot.
Further, I’ve seen systems that have a setting to not allow the non-microsoft stuff to boot, even if signed by the usual secureboot authority. So there may be a device out there hard set to only allow microsoft software to boot.
You can uninstall Copilot yourself with O&O ShutUp.
I don’t understand the universe in which this is not an option. in an enterprise scenario, you are being very specific about who you share your data with. That’s why there’s a market for self-hosted AI, and it’s why a lot of companies will silo their data. if this thing was on all the time just sending your computer usage shit to Microsoft, there’s no fucking way it would have any use in a corporate setting.
with that being said, I don’t understand what this article is saying at all
The new policy will apply to devices where the Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft Copilot are both installed, the Microsoft Copilot app was not installed by the user, and the Microsoft Copilot app was not launched in the last 28 days.
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"If this policy is enabled, the Microsoft Copilot app will be uninstalled, once.
no, you know what? I don’t care. it’s really boring
Anyway, “Copilot” in my native language is “The bastard”.
So every normal logged in user then?
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In the Enterprise editions of Windows, you can already uninstall it. Maybe not via group policy, but you can just find it in the Apps > Installed Apps list and right click to uninstall it. On the various home user editions of Windows, this is probably not the case. (I have zero systems running those, so I can’t check.)
The Enterprise LTSC IoT version of Windows 10 doesn’t even come with Copilot, nor have any updates for it thus far installed it on any of the systems I administer, either. Apparently only 11 does.
What’s new here is apparently being able to trigger this via group policy, but for anyone in the here and now you can already disable Copilot via group policy as well, even on your local system, even on Windows 11.
