Why has microsoft copilot installed itself on my windows 10 pc?

Hi. I have the same problem - but in Word if you go to FIle>options there is a copilot setting, which you can simply disable. I have just done this and the pesky copilot seems to have shut up. Fingers crossed!

I have tried to eliminate Copilot and it is still active in the Word application on my computer. It interferes with my writing trying to out-think what I am writing. I am a writer and I find this a serious distraction. How do I remove it from my Word taskbar and how do I never see it again. I am a creative and academic author and I want my work to be my work. I think with an application change as serious as this users should have the last say on whether to have it loaded to their machine or not. I have tried every suggestion to eliminate Copilot and none of them work.

No, you don't get it. It's no secret to anyone who reads that Copilot is being installed on Windows PCs. This isn't news.

Microsoft has been very forthcoming about this. You just don't like Copilot, and disabling the app or uninstalling it isn't good enough for you.

You wrote:

Don't you think it would be better if Microsoft was just upfront about its intentions prior to installation ...

Microsoft has been upfront about its intentions. Microsoft has been discussing its plans for Copilot, artificial intelligence in Windows, and Copilot+PCs publicly for more than a year, through its own blogs and spokespeople.

And Microsoft's intentions have been discussed in great detail both in the professional media (PCWorld, ZDNet, AnandTech, Tom's Guide, etc.) and the popular media (Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, BBC, etc.)

Moreover, literally millions of Windows Insiders have been watching - and testing - the development of Copilot and artificial intelligence in Windows for more than a year.

So nobody can say that Microsoft has not been upfront about its intentions. That's simply not true.

What's true is that some people don't like Microsoft's intentions ... for CoPilot and Paint3D and Microsoft Edge and OneDrive and Outlook and Xbox and ... a hundred different things. That's too bad, but with more than 1.5 billion Windows users all over the world, you can't please everyone. And what you or someone else believes is so obviously an issue is not so obvious to everyone.

Furthermore "Nobody is required to use these apps" is straight up false in the case of OneDrive and Copilot

I don't use the OneDrive app or Copilot, and no one has required that I use either one.