Microsoft has quietly hit pause on one of its more controversial Windows 11 rollout plans: the automatic installation of the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on commercial PCs with Microsoft 365 desktop apps. According to Microsoft’s own deployment guidance, those Windows devices would normally receive...
Microsoft has paused the automatic installation of the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on Windows PCs with Microsoft 365 desktop apps, a move that quietly reverses a rollout strategy many IT admins and end users were preparing to fight. Microsoft’s own deployment documentation still describes a...
Microsoft has quietly backed away from one of the more irritating pieces of its Windows 11 AI push: the automatic installation of the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on consumer PCs. After a wave of backlash from users who felt the app was being pushed onto systems without meaningful consent, the...
Microsoft’s decision to pause automatic deployment of the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on Windows 11 is a small operational change with outsized symbolic value. It suggests the company is still committed to making Copilot a central part of the Microsoft 365 experience, but it also shows that the...
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