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

[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/

For coverage see e. g. TechCrunch, Engadget

[landelare@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@kalleboo @GossiTheDog I'm genuinely surprised at that product. It's even somewhat repairable by Apple standards.

[biogeek23@hachyderm.io]

@GossiTheDog good