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

I would like to explain: Microsoft did not decide to install Copilot as a separate application on your computer.

As you are probably aware, Windows is continually updated. This is how Windows evolves over time. The updates are not additions to Windows, they are Windows.

The Windows operating system now includes artificial intelligence, of which Copilot is a visible example. As Windows continues to evolve through updates, we will see more artificial intelligence on our computers, which means, among other things, more of Copilot.

I want to be very clear about this: Even though it's on our computers as part of Windows, nobody is required to use Copilot, just as nobody is required to use Microsoft Edge or Windows Media Player or Windows Fax and Scan or the OneDrive app, etc. ... just because it's there doesn't mean we're supposed to use it. I myself don't use any of those things. Since I'm not using them, they aren't doing anything. Nevertheless, they remain part of the operating system, for the people who do want to use them, and for software developers who use them in their apps.

Chien, Microsoft has a very long history of this sort of behaviour. No one is imagining it, so spare us all from the gaslighting please.

When Edge became a thing, Microsoft did exactly as it had done decades ago with Internet Explorer. It dominated my access to the internet and it was one almighty battle to stop it. I think, eventually, Microsoft changed its implementation of Edge and now I can run my preferred browsers under all circumstances, rather than Microsoft dictating it for me. However, having been rapped heavily on the knuckles over its dominating behaviour when Internet Explorer was Microsoft's imposed browser of choice previously, regardless of its windows' users preferences/needs, Microsoft should have ended this behaviour right then. It didn't.

Making Edge a component rather than a separate browser speaks very loudly to Microsoft's true intentions, since it wasn't uninstallable and kept popping up everywhere regardless. Microsoft knew very well what it was doing.

I regularly spot new ways Microsoft tries to aggressively coerce people accepting things they wouldn't have chosen. Like, for a long time, before I knew how to turn it off, my profile wasn't set up to Microsoft's liking, but I was happy with it. It was exactly how I wanted it. So Microsoft kept asking me to complete the profile setup I'd already done many times before. It felt like Microsoft was questioning my choices and trying to wear me down into accepting its more intrusive setup. If Microsoft had given the option to stop this screen from appearing everytime I load my computer on the first time this screen loaded, that scenario wouldn't have reoccured. And that's the point, Microsoft doesn't like to give you choices about certain things, it really wants to push you in a certain direction.

AI Copilot is just another example. We know this precisely when it happens to us because we already know we didn't want it, therefore didn't choose it, and it didn't exist before Windows 11, but now it's suddenly on our Window's 10 machines out of nowhere.

If you don't care about any of that, then bully for you. Like others, I have resisted going to Windows 11. I had the option of upgrading but already knowing that Microsoft has negated the choices I would make (and can currently make in Windows 10) in preference for its own, I decline to do so.

People are justifiably angry with Microsoft over these behaviours. A much smaller company wouldn't dream of alienating its customer base. That's the issue here. It's sheer arrogance.

Your answer is complete Intellectual Dishonesty. "MS OS evolve over time" YES, It goes from OS 10 to OS 11. and OS 11 has features that we do not want in OS 10. We did not upgrade to 11 for a reason. THE OS 10 that I had, did not have any semblance of a feature like Copilot on it, and now you have updated the OS to include something that was NEVER in OS10. You have violated our trust and the EULA

I am confused by the people who reply to questions in this forum.
It is always stated by your peers that all of you are just volunteers and do not work for Microsoft.
If that is the case then why do many of you answer in such a fashion that it comes across as though you do!? Or in such a way that it appears arrogant.

Your answer above suggests that you are part of the team and are also taking part in their team meetings. You seem to know what they are thinking, what they are planning and why they are doing what they are doing.

So how about some clarification, as many of the replies I have read come across this way.
So either you guys DO work for Microsoft or you do not.
If the latter, then perhaps don't talk to us as though we are a bunch of halfwits.
Or are we, because you do in fact, work for Microsoft? I dunno \o/

Hi Ashe, I am Paulo and I'd like to help.

I understand your concern regarding Copilot. Reports indicate that some PCs automatically received it after the Edge browser updated to the latest version. Initially, the preview release of Copilot functioned as a system component, making it a bit difficult to uninstall. However, it was later changed to an application to simplify its removal, a change many had requested. I'm positive that it should no longer install itself automatically now that the release period has ended. :)