How do I disable Copilot and all Other AI functionality in Windows 11 PRO

I started in the late 60's with COBOL. We needed an open telephone line to reach a bank (prearranged, of course!) for a chance to mix it up with their computer. Eventually, I moved to DOS, which I found to be so extremely elegant (a bit fussy, but worth the effort for no wasted code) until Microsoft just bulldozed the entire process. Now, 30, 40 years later, they are still bulldozing. Thanks for commiserating! At 75 years old, at least I'll miss the worst of the fall out!

Actually your analogy is the most fitting. Like you, I don't change my own oil. Not because I'm afraid of getting my hands dirty, but because if something goes wrong in my car I don't want the dealership trying to claim it's because I didn't follow some arcane procedure that they've established to keep their profit margin up.

It's also why I don't use pirated keys for M$ products. Because although I always knew they were spying on me and using my information at least the product worked most of the time.

I draw the line with M$ co-pilot because it doesn't work, continues to spy, and is being forced down my throat in a way that can't be uninstalled completely, despite what M$ says. This will eventually become another piece of unused bloatware like the gaming software that won't go away.

My analogy for M$ is similar to one from Star Wars.

The more you tighten your grasp the more software users will slip through your fingers. (In short I came aboard this ride almost 40 years ago with version 1.03. But as soon as I can replace the M$ spyware/bloatware factory its gone.

I think the problem is with businesses that are under SOX or GLBA compliance regulations. CoPilot has the potential to "see" financial information and could send it to the cloud. This would violate those policies. Think tax preparers and accountants..

As an accountant (in Australia), this functionality does worry me, to the extent it may violate Australia’s Privacy Legislation. The “Recall” facility on the new Microsoft computers is terrifying. Will not touch one, ever.

Ymir, you are absolutely correct. AI is nothing but the latest buzzword (like cloud) that companies are using for marketing purposes to fool the fools. AI requires coding, just like every other application. The battle will be between the millions of coders writing the code to try to convince customers that their AI is worth spending money on. AI's main result will be the long unemployment lines, even to the point of those writing the code. It won't take long (5-10 years maybe) before AI will be considered a not so funny joke like Y2K is today.

It disabled it for me on the desktop which is what I care about. You can always uninstall Edge and use one of the other 5 or 6 popular browsers out there.

How do you uninstall Edge? I thought that was impossible.