I don't know, when did it? I installed this update on Windows 11 and there's a simple toggle in the settings to turn off the Copilot button on the taskbar. And even when it's not disabled, I just don't use it when I don't want it to do something. This thread - like many others on this topic - is full of weird histrionics over this.
It's basically a wrapper for Bing Chat. If anything I'm disappointed by how little it does. Possibly because I don't have Microsoft Office, it has some integrations with that when doing searches through your data (this is a feature of Office rather than of Copilot, though). Do you have any sources indicating it's doing more than that?
What specific part of the terms of service cover datamining? OP said "If you are fine with being datamined by software and device you paid for, more power to you champ!", which is just a vague generic claim. If you're going to say that the Terms of Service allows for it please actually quote the bit that does so. Otherwise this is just wild fearmongering.
Lol how about you go look for it yourself, since you’re the one who’s gonna be using it. We’re trying to do you a favor by warning you, if you don’t care that’s fine, but we’re not going to handhold you through it.
I am unimpressed with copilot on Windows 11. Privacy aside, It seems like a web wrapper for Bing ai, which is a performant chat bot, but isn’t anything special when you compare it to openai’s data analytics ai.
It wasn’t able to update PC settings or files, for example. Though, I only had 15 min with it.
Indeed, this is my biggest complaint about Copilot - it doesn't seem to do anything that I can't easily do by just popping over to Bing. I'm hoping that it will see more updates in the near future.
Tbh the grail for me would be if it could execute code in a persistent, local, virtualized environment. I’m sure that sort of product will come to Windows, but it can’t come soon enough for me.
That article is from 2016, about an experimental Twitter chatbot that Microsoft tried out and immediately gave up on when it went awry. Clippy is even more ancient. This is ridiculous.
It also dies when it's in an environment it can't survive in. The textual medium is terrible for sarcasm, especially when you're using it alongside people who are serious about hating on Microsoft for weird reasons. You need to mark it with an /s
I did this the moment they dropped copilot on my taskbar without any prompting. It was my gaming machine so it took a little getting used to, but it’s been solid ever since.
I did not ask for an AI chatbot in my os. I don’t want an AI chatbot in my os.
You could go to Settings -> Personalization -> Taskbar and turn the Copilot button off. Or you could install a whole new OS to accomplish that, I guess. Whichever is simpler.
I over reacted and took the Linux route. It wasn’t just one thing that prompted the change, but copilot was the icing on the cake.
I’ve been unhappy with windows for a few years, but it’s always been easier to ignore it and continue on. Something in me must have snapped about the same time a few guys at work were talking about gaming on Linux. Worked out well for me, might not work best for everyone.
I tried doing this the other day. Due to my current GPU (3080) it was too many hoops to jump through just to play a game. I don’t want to spend time configuring my setup to make the game run in the little amount of free time that I have ಥ‿ಥ
Although the system is very efficient I’ve decided to move my side project to be on Linux, making my Windows install to be purely for gaming. I was using WSL previously with a Mac for my day job.
Maybe if I switched to an AMD GPU I’ll do a proper Linux gaming setup.
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