How do I TURN OFF the "Summary by Copilot" banner that appears on every single email I receive in outlook?

Solved this issue:
Removed Outlook - just use Windows Mail

If that gets this kind of infection, I will use something else.

For MS:

I think the main issue is that your devs are adopting the mindset of Google\Android - a ton of apps you don't need or use, and settings that are not easy to disable, or simply can't be controlled by the user at all.

Remember the old days when we had complete control of what we had on our system, and had simple checkboxes to turn stuff on or off?

• yeah, we want them back thanks :)

I didn't ask for and do not want anything or anyone looking over my shoulder every time I write an email. I'm fluent enough to deal with it all myself, thanks, and I refuse to train my own successor or have everything I write scrutinised by some sort of digital Gestapo.

I thought the paperclip was irritating, but Copilot is intrusive, insulting and frankly downright sinister. If you can't give us a way to disable it completely - ideally removing it entirely from our systems - then I'll have to consider cancelling all my Microsoft accounts after more than 30 years and either investigating Linux or dusting off my old manual typewriter.

There is no way to reassure me and, judging by the replies, millions of others that Copilot is benign and will neither steal our ideas nor report us to some arbitrary censor. Particularly not since we seem now to be living under increasingly frightening and authoritarian governments which would just love unrestricted access to our personal communications and innermost thoughts.

Intended or not, this type of blanket surveillance would make it easy for said regimes to identify and act against all any social, political or other group to whom they randomly take a dislike.

I've already set my 365 account to revert to 'basic' upon renewal - but this will not take effect until November, and I'm not prepared to live that long under the eye of a cybernetic Big Brother.

As a paying customer, I'm asking you to give me back my freedom to choose how I wish to use the services I've purchased. While you're at it, please reinstate the option to buy a one-off, PC-based version of Word etc instead of demanding annual protection money to prevent anything 'happening' to my files. Microsoft is more than rich enough, this is just plain greed.

Thanks

Please stop forcing copilot on me. It's not at all useful for what I'm doing, plus it wastes A LOT of my time and screen space with all the ways it's shoved in my face. Our office uses Microsoft 365 and outlook exclusively but if we don't get an option to turn off copilot and every related notification, suggestion, ad, banner, etc. we will change everything to get away from this annoyance.

Plus one. I'm going to have to disable Co-Pilot entirely for the users if can't get rid of this stupid banner.

Add me to the list of people who think this is a waste of space and time. Allow individual preferences to be set and one of them to be able to DISABLE this "feature".