Brace yourself, a report suggests that Copilot is coming to Windows 10
Microsoft has plans to launch Windows Copilot on the 1 billion Windows 10 devices in the near future, according to a report.
I run Windows 10 Enterprise for this reason - because unlike Home, you can turn any of their bullshit off with GPOs. But I’m tired of protecting myself against their OS, and once Win10 is EOL, I’ll be going to Linux after using Windows since the 3.1 days.
I’m going to have to somehow figure out how to switch my uncle’s office to Linux.
I don’t even know if I’ll be able to pull it off with some of the stuff they use and it would cost way too much money to migrate. I definitely don’t have what it takes to do a job like that alone nowadays.
Are they going to ask or just do whatever they want with my computer?
This is why I don't date Microsoft employees.
my computer?
"Your computer?" -- Microsoft probably
It certainly feels that way. I uninstall all the stuff I don't want and the bastards put it right back in the next update, alongside some new crap I didn't ask for.
Are they going to ask or just do whatever they want with my computer?
There is nothing wrong with your computer. Do not attempt to adjust Windows. We are controlling Windows. If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume. If we wish to make it softer, we will tune it to a whisper. We will control the firewall. We will control Windows Update. We can roll the image, make it flutter. We can change the focus to a soft blur, or sharpen it to crystal clarity. For the next hour, sit quietly and we will control all that you see and hear. We repeat: There is nothing wrong with your computer. You are about to participate in a great adventure. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to the outer limits.
@throwslemy @IchNichtenLichten
There's really not much "outer" to Windows's limits.
When you use a closed source proprietary OS like Windows, you're renting, not buying. If you want to own, use Linux.
You have to spell no in ASCII.
Jokes on them, my win10 setup won't even update anymore. Can't be bothered to do a reinstall.
I reinstalled win10 yesterday on a laptop that iam selling. The windows app store doesn't work out of the box anymore. Just errorcodes. Its such a joke.
I'm in the same boat. My copy can't see the bootloader, even though it's booting >.<
Linux is coming, as soon as I can be bothered
You mean Windows 11 12?
"I'm gonna pick the penguin" - Mutahar.
I actively hate co-pilot on my work computer. I really don't want it doing the same stuff Cortana did. Popping up when I didn't need or ask for it. I just want to search. Leave me alone.
They already put it into Edge.
The negative reaction to this kind of thing baffles me. I see it as a neat new feature that'll make my life easier. But if for whatever reason you don't like it... don't use it. No biggie.
Yeah, it's not like Microsoft's style to force or nag their users into using whatever product. Nobody ever had any trouble turning off Onedrive, or uninstalling Edge.
We remember Cortana. Hard to not think about it and not expect a similar quality of implementation.
Even today while disabled I continue to open Cortana by mistake... Which won't work since it's disabled...
Just this morning I was noodling through my start menu, as you do, and on a lark I right clicked and uninstalled Cortana. (This is on Windows 10.) Windows has never allowed me to do that before. You could disable it, you could hide it, but you could not uninstall it. The option just was not there. Some update somewhere along the line enabled an actual uninstall and I don't know which one.
Immediately I had a hunch they were planning to replace it with some new bullshit. That's the only reason Microsoft would ever let it go.
There are many things on Windows people don't like: Preinstalled bloatware, Edge, Microsoft spyware. As you simply cannot disable them under Windows, the only way not to use them is to upgrade to Linux, it seems.
If it follows the same pattern for all MS features, there will be a check box to turn it off, but it will be on by default. So if you don't like it, turn it off and save your outrage, like me, for the absence of a vertical taskbar in Windows 11.