How do I permanently turn off Copilot prompts in my Outlook.com webmail messages?

My own take on this is, first of all this is not only a web client thing as some have been emphaizing, it can also be what's best described as "New Outlook", which, I guess is an "app" on a PC workstation, which, in fact, might have MS Edge tech as its basis. I feel like people are going overboard when they insist the DEFAULT should be this prompt is turned off. OF COURSE Microsoft is going to want to herald the feature and try to get people to try it. What I think is reasonable is an EASY way to opt to turn it off in settings. Not having a way to turn it off is what is utterly bizarre. I've been using Microsoft products since the 1980's. This is bizarre. I'm a Microsoft partisan and I will continue to use Office and many many Microsoft offerings -- but, do better Microsoft. Resolve this and notify the user base when it is resolved.

I cannot believe that you, Microsoft, are forcing this INCREDIBLY annoying feature on all of us. I to am paying for O365 and I WANT TO GET RID OF IT. NOW please. But I guess it is time to say goodbye finally to the hotmail/outlook account. It is full of spam anyway

Agree.

Please let your higher ups know that people do not like this annoying prompt. Microsoft says it is always trying to make functionality better for the consumer, well they have really missed the mark if they think that having advertising dropped in every time that the enter key is pressed will win hearts and minds. I will, now on principle, use ChatGTP to format e-mails and NEVER use CoPilot.

Hey all,

If you're using Firefox for Outlook webmail, there is a solution posted by RichardAU which I commented on yesterday February 5 and it's very simple to do. I don't think the uBlock Origin extension works in all browsers, but it's worth a try.

I also posted a couple of workarounds for avoiding the copilot draft widget in our emails. Once you hit reply to an email, you can open it in the Drafts folder and compose your email from there without the copilot widget.

I too will be downgrading my subscription to Personal Classic when my renewal comes up in April. It's a little unclear if Classic will eliminate copilot in Outlook webmail, however they put it in there and they're charging for this feature in the other apps, so I'm assuming when I downgrade to the Classic subscription, Outlook will go back to its former operation.