Microsoft will begin automatically pushing the Microsoft 365 Copilot desktop app to Windows devices that already have Microsoft 365 desktop clients installed, in a background rollout scheduled to start in October 2025 and described by Microsoft as beginning in “Fall 2025.”
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Starting in early October and finishing around mid‑November 2025, Microsoft will quietly push the Microsoft 365 Copilot app to many Windows PCs that already have Microsoft 365 desktop apps installed — downloading and installing the app in the background, adding an icon to the Start menu, and...
Microsoft will begin pushing the standalone Microsoft 365 Copilot app onto many Windows devices this fall, installing it quietly in the background on systems that already have Microsoft 365 desktop clients — with an explicit carve‑out for devices in the European Economic Area and several...
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Microsoft will begin automatically installing the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on many Windows devices this fall, but the rollout is neither universal nor unstoppable — administrators and privacy-conscious users have documented methods to block installation and disable the feature, and Microsoft...