Microsoft are removing the Copilot integrations in Notepad, Snipping Tool etc in Windows.

[scvalex@mas.to]

@GossiTheDog Link to the blogpost:

Our commitment to Windows quality

Hello Windows Insiders, I want to speak to you directly, as an engineer who has spent his career building technology that people depend on every day. Windows touches more people's lives than almost any technology on Earth. Every day, we hear from th

Windows Insider Blog (blogs.windows.com)

[kbsez@mstdn.social]

@paul @GossiTheDog

Oh yeah--- but who can keep track of all of their failures, missteps and total screw ups.

[pa3weg@mastodon.social]

@GossiTheDog
"As part of this, we are reducing unnecessary Copilot entry points"

They should be deleting those entry points one by one until there is only one left: an application called Copilot that is optional and the majority of people won't install.

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus@cyberplace.social]

@GossiTheDog I'm not sure I entirely believe the "It's not that there's a gnawing hole in the balance sheet that demands sacrifice or a really lame machine cult in the c-suite; it's just that our PMs have failed glorious copilot" excuse for why MS ux what it is.

[dealiah@mastodon.sdf.org]

@kbsez @GossiTheDog

[ehproque@neopaquita.es]

@GossiTheDog that's a lot of admissions for so little text

[hermannus@stegodon.nl]

@GossiTheDog hahahahahahaha... oh boy... hahahahaha
So far for the internal checks and balances that got them there in the first place.
I think they fired the wrong employees...

[dealiah@mastodon.sdf.org]

@kbsez @GossiTheDog

[kalleboo@bitbang.social]

@GossiTheDog The MacBook Neo comes out and Microsoft instantly shits themselves

[johnley@infosec.exchange]

@GossiTheDog my org broke access to the windows store, so I never got the notepad update with copilot, I only ever got the tabs/“keep your tabs when it closes without saving” features which are fantastic.

Thank god vulnerability management isn’t my job.

[netraven@hear-me.social]

@GossiTheDog just manually edit the registry to disable wsappx service and remove all windows apps, and use classic win10 apps instead. Still works fine.

[the_turtle@mastodon.sdf.org]

@GossiTheDog did they ever put it in About Windows?

[craigstuntz@discuss.systems]

@GossiTheDog From a January, 2003 article about Microsoft slapping the ".NET" branding on every single product: "'It's purely a branding issue,' he said. 'They've had a lot of problem explaining .Net. Putting .Net on products in a willy-nilly way only exacerbates the problem. They've certainly been guilty of that, and this is a way of policing that.'" https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/windows-servers-identity-crisis/

[jukkan@mstdn.social]

@GossiTheDog In case anyone is wondering: yes, the leadership team at Microsoft really did say #Copilot has to be in every app.
https://www.perspectives.plus/p/as-long-as-its-copilot

[li@tech.lgbt]

@CraigStuntz @GossiTheDog looking at crosstalk and it being like ".NET Messenger" on MSN is super weird

[mayintoronto@beige.party]

@grumpasaurus @GossiTheDog Hahaha that'll never happen. They're probably doing it for cost savings.

[bussphomet@app.wafrn.net]

Yeah
Still not going back to winblows though

[banneduser@app.wafrn.net]

This is proof that it’s AI over because the whole point was to shove it into absolutely everything so if they’re starting to pull back at all it’s genuinely over

[kierkegaanks@beige.party]

@GossiTheDog satya nadella will have his revenge on us

[nev@status.nevillepark.ca]

@GossiTheDog Source, for those curious: https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2026/03/20/our-commitment-to-windows-quality/

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