“Allow”
Fuck you, Microsoft. You and Apple have lost millions of users to Linux, and I’m here for it.
Microsoft may soon allow IT admins to uninstall Copilot
Submitted 16 hours ago by hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works to technology@lemmy.world
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just_another_person@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Buelldozer@lemmy.today 14 hours ago
You are not an IT Admin, you are not spending tens of millions annually, and thus Microsoft doesn’t give a shit about you. They literally would not piss on you if you were on fire.
Damage@feddit.it 4 hours ago
I mean, they already lost the war to Linux on infrastructure, those are billions they never made. It’s not unlikely for them to lose the desktop as well.
just_another_person@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
That’s not really the point though. I’m not even talking about end users. Government agencies, corporate backend services, customer service agencies and more are all abandoning Windows for Linux partially because Win11 is a horrible product, but also because the requirements just keep growing which is stupid.
There response to this is the above, which they were STAUNCHLY opposed to previously because they need to try and force AI down users throats to justify the money they have pissed away on it. They’re shoehorning Copilot bullshit into every product line they have now, and it’s WILDLY unpopular and unnecessary. If this is the best they can do to address it, they’ll continue to hemorrhage users.
When more state agencies in the US start switching, they’ll release some “Windows Lite” bullshit, but it will too late because the commitments needed for these organizations to bother switching is massive. They’ll be losing licenses for an entire generation of Windows at the very least.
sepi@piefed.social 14 hours ago
Yes we already know. No need to sell it to us more. We love it.
tabular@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
May allow The benevolence! Your own computer can do whatever you want it to… if MS agrees to it.
macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Your computer, their software.
tabular@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
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 owns the copyright to it). If someone else controls yours computer then that erodes your ownership of the computer.
ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com 15 hours ago
That you should have the option to run locally without calling back to home base without a special pass from MS.
goatinspace@feddit.org 7 hours ago
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
IT admins should already know how to do it without Macroslop‘s permission.
MIDItheKID@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
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.
Eternal192@anarchist.nexus 11 hours ago
Oh they’ll “allow” it, how’s this go fuck yourself and keep your shitty AI crap to yourself since you fucking love it so much.
sturmblast@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
You always could disable it completely thus far
Rooster326@programming.dev 32 minutes ago
You can request to disable it.
FTFY
There is always the possibility it is there. Watching. Waiting.
You can’t trust big windows
OshagHennessey@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
may
admins
Fuck Microsoft
RalfWausE@feddit.org 9 hours ago
My computer, my rules… and if I want a piece of software out it will move out.
coolmojo@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
It used to be “My Computer”, now it is “This PC”.
RalfWausE@feddit.org 6 hours ago
Oh… right…
statelesz@slrpnk.net 15 hours ago
You know what Microsoft doesn’t have to allow you? Install Linux on your own device!
itisileclerk@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Anyway, “Copilot” in my native language is “The bastard”.
Auster@thebrainbin.org 15 hours ago
Reading the article, it's so many conditions to be uninstallable I fear even Bill Gates himself couldn't.
badbytes@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
So every normal logged in user then?
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
?
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.
The Enterprise LTSC IoT version of Windows doesn’t even come with Copilot, nor have any updates for it thus far installed it on any of the systems I administer, either.
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.
Triumph@fedia.io 13 hours ago
I'm running Pro, and I don't see it as an installed app. Neither do I have it available as an app to run; the little copilot icon on the start menu just opens a web page.
Which means I must have already uninstalled it. Which means you should be able to uninstall it from Pro versions as well.
nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 hours ago
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 shit to Microsoft, there’s no fucking way it would have any use in a corporate setting.
hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
I see this has a nature healing moment. We are seeing a big technology company letting people remove AI from something not adding it in.
Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
Doesn’t really sound like an admin to me
aliser@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
FYI: as a user, you are already allowed to uninstall Windows and switch to Linux