TBH I have a mixed feeling about this.
What the heck IS Copilot?
I hate articles that tell you, "Blorp is amazing! Blorp is coming out in 3 days! Everybody should have Blorp! Don’t miss out on Blorp!’
“More useful than Cortana” is the lowest of bars.
More useful than the thing I know my heard people talking about disabling? Wow, what a time to be alive!
More useful at collecting your data.
When did tech go from adding nice useful features to shoving shit up everyone’s ass without consent.
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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.
Very naive understanding of what it actually does.
If you are fine with being datamined by software and device you paid for, more power to you champ!
I am sure you got nothing to hide and you don’t do any crime haha
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?
Microsoft is doing a really good job convincing me to switch to Linux. Hopefully soon that will be a realistic possibility for me. Fuck Microsoft.
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.
Really considering moving my main computer to Linux with the way things are going
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.
Bing chat sensors it’s output so much