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- Comment on Admins finally get the power to uninstall Microsoft Copilot on Windows 11 Pro, Enterprise, and EDU versions — devices must meet specific conditions to allow the removal of the AI app 2 hours ago:
“spying on you” sounds scary… Until you actually think about the person at the other end. A development team tracking a race condition. A mix of people from around the world doing text tagging on screenshots or transcribing voice recordings.
“Your operating system is spying on you” becomes just a dog whistle for “I’m the main character” types because it immediately fails when you start thinking about how it would have to work.
“But they have all this person information on me and they keep trying to sign me up to OneDrive! Any government could just bribe them and get access to it all!” Yes, and then need to recruit and employ thousands of government workers to sift through it looking for dissidence.
Far cheaper and much easier to go through already state owned information or bribe ISPs or just do what’s always worked and… Make stuff up.
The only real value to this information is trying to work out why the latest cumulative update has introduced a printing bug. Nearly all apps ask for you to turn this on and it’s not so they can get your browsing habits, it’s so they don’t have to respond to thousands of angry forum messages that something is not working and then guide every single one of them through the same 10 steps to collect log files and ask about what they were doing and their environment.
- Comment on Admins finally get the power to uninstall Microsoft Copilot on Windows 11 Pro, Enterprise, and EDU versions — devices must meet specific conditions to allow the removal of the AI app 12 hours ago:
Coding is hard and telemetry is a good way to solve problems. I don’t know how you work on something as complex as an operating system without it.
- Comment on Admins finally get the power to uninstall Microsoft Copilot on Windows 11 Pro, Enterprise, and EDU versions — devices must meet specific conditions to allow the removal of the AI app 18 hours ago:
It does not need to run at every startup, it just needs to run once.
AppXProvisioned packages are those into the system that which are available to install to each new user. I’ve just suggested “an option” which would be running it as a start up script the first time you provision the machine. I think it’s a much better option to use policy.
Updatss to both Copilot applications are performed based on the state of the appxpaclage.
I think thousands of mouse clicks, error messages and browsing history of tens of millions of hundreds of millions of people is a lot harder to use maliciously than people think.
You can see the starting points of the agentic OS, which will serve the vast majority of people. But it is frustrating to see how slow “do this task” prompts are going to progress just because there’s not a lot of good sources for prompts. Apart from asking people wheat prompt they would use and then asking for feedback of what should have happened.
- Comment on Admins finally get the power to uninstall Microsoft Copilot on Windows 11 Pro, Enterprise, and EDU versions — devices must meet specific conditions to allow the removal of the AI app 22 hours ago:
Hi, actual Windows System Engineer here. Both the “Microsoft Copilot” and the “Microsoft Copilot 365”(previously Office Hub) apps have been removable by group policy or Intune configuration policy since mid last year. Previous to that they were also still able to be remove by running the Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage as a start up script, or remediation script. Fun fact, a lot of those “Debloater” acripts are running this command because the massive amount of engineering work done since Windows 7 to make Windows Components modular.
This is a non article.