Microsoft are removing the Copilot integrations in Notepad, Snipping Tool etc in Windows.
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Microsoft are removing the Copilot integrations in Notepad, Snipping Tool etc in Windows.
Turns out telling PMs to bake Copilot into everything was a dumb idea.
@GossiTheDog just manually edit the registry to disable wsappx service and remove all windows apps, and use classic win10 apps instead. Still works fine.
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Microsoft are removing the Copilot integrations in Notepad, Snipping Tool etc in Windows.
Turns out telling PMs to bake Copilot into everything was a dumb idea.
@GossiTheDog did they ever put it in About Windows?
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Microsoft are removing the Copilot integrations in Notepad, Snipping Tool etc in Windows.
Turns out telling PMs to bake Copilot into everything was a dumb idea.
@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/
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Microsoft are removing the Copilot integrations in Notepad, Snipping Tool etc in Windows.
Turns out telling PMs to bake Copilot into everything was a dumb idea.
@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
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@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/
@CraigStuntz @GossiTheDog looking at crosstalk and it being like ".NET Messenger" on MSN is super weird
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@GossiTheDog are we at the "we need to focus on outcomes instead of chasing kpis" stage of AI product management
@grumpasaurus @GossiTheDog Hahaha that'll never happen. They're probably doing it for cost savings.
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Microsoft are removing the Copilot integrations in Notepad, Snipping Tool etc in Windows.
Turns out telling PMs to bake Copilot into everything was a dumb idea.
Yeah
Still not going back to winblows though -
Microsoft are removing the Copilot integrations in Notepad, Snipping Tool etc in Windows.
Turns out telling PMs to bake Copilot into everything was a dumb idea.
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
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Microsoft are removing the Copilot integrations in Notepad, Snipping Tool etc in Windows.
Turns out telling PMs to bake Copilot into everything was a dumb idea.
@GossiTheDog satya nadella will have his revenge on us
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Microsoft are removing the Copilot integrations in Notepad, Snipping Tool etc in Windows.
Turns out telling PMs to bake Copilot into everything was a dumb idea.
@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
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@GossiTheDog The MacBook Neo comes out and Microsoft instantly shits themselves
@kalleboo @GossiTheDog I'm genuinely surprised at that product. It's even somewhat repairable by Apple standards.
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Microsoft are removing the Copilot integrations in Notepad, Snipping Tool etc in Windows.
Turns out telling PMs to bake Copilot into everything was a dumb idea.
@GossiTheDog good
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@grumpasaurus @GossiTheDog Hahaha that'll never happen. They're probably doing it for cost savings.
@mayintoronto @GossiTheDog i mean let's be real focusing on outcomes just leads to more bikeshedding on which kpis to chase
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@mayintoronto @GossiTheDog i mean let's be real focusing on outcomes just leads to more bikeshedding on which kpis to chase
@grumpasaurus @GossiTheDog Near- to medium-term team-level outcomes only or bust!
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Microsoft are removing the Copilot integrations in Notepad, Snipping Tool etc in Windows.
Turns out telling PMs to bake Copilot into everything was a dumb idea.
@GossiTheDog - turns out adding a feature consumers didn't ask for - and many are actively turning off - wasn't a great plan and not worth the infrastructure you've devoted hundreds of millions of your shareholders' profits to.
The tech equivalent of 3D TVs.
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@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.
I never had Copilot in Notepad either. What a profoundly stupid idea to put thoisin Notepad to begin with. Good to see they take back some AI. I am not reassured yet.
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Microsoft are removing the Copilot integrations in Notepad, Snipping Tool etc in Windows.
Turns out telling PMs to bake Copilot into everything was a dumb idea.
@GossiTheDog this AND The Metaverse changing to just The Verse all in one week? god must've woken up for a second.
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Microsoft are removing the Copilot integrations in Notepad, Snipping Tool etc in Windows.
Turns out telling PMs to bake Copilot into everything was a dumb idea.
This is unexpected behaviour by MicroSlop Corp.
Having seen pulped users routinely ignored by the juggernaut for decades, I can't imagine the magnitude of the pushback against Slop-Integration that would have produced this back-track.
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Microsoft are removing the Copilot integrations in Notepad, Snipping Tool etc in Windows.
Turns out telling PMs to bake Copilot into everything was a dumb idea.
@GossiTheDog What about Paint? Please, tell me they’re taking it out of Paint. Not that I’ll go back to use it on the regular—that bridge has been burned—but this needs to stop. I counted at least 16 different versions of Copilot when I updated a relative’s computer several weeks ago. Deters me from ever wanting to go back to Windows as my daily driver.
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Microsoft are removing the Copilot integrations in Notepad, Snipping Tool etc in Windows.
Turns out telling PMs to bake Copilot into everything was a dumb idea.
@GossiTheDog
I'm quite surprised. Rather than backpedal, I expected them to double down.
