REMOVE COPILOT FROM OUTLOOK

Copilot must be made a choise.

The other day I wrote two emails (not in English, but in my native language which I think I master quite well), and I was interrupted by copilot both times, telling me that copilot could write these emails better than me. I really hate this. I am 70 years old, I have my style in my private emails and do not want to be replaced by a machine.

Also, does this mean that all our mails are being copied?

Fair enough, re LibreOffice. For as little as I need it personally, it does the trick. Work pays for all of the work office suite I need there. The big thing is the email option. And I don't mind paying. I've had a paid family subscription to MS365 (or whatever it is they're calling it this week) for many years. I really liked the OneDrive space it offered and made sharing with family around the wrold an easy experience. That's not as important now, and I can easily store everything locally.

MS has been pushing people to subscription for a decade or more now. Even if you don't need everything they offer. There's a managlement disconnect at the point where they can't fathom ALL of this rubbish they're offering for one price isn't a deal for most of us. Don't want it, don't need it, will never have a use for it. It's why I ditched Adobe for Affinity Pro.

.... sorry for the rant ... I'm really tired of paying for goods and services and then being told I must pay more for this shiny new thing that offers no benefit to me or my work. And I can't turn it off. I can't just have the thing(s) I need that have always been available.

I don't have a subscription. I bought Office 2016 and that SCHIFF wormed its way into my Outlook 2016 application. I also now get an unwanted share drop down in Word, Visio (which I also bought), Excel and other Office applications. To say these things are annoying is a vast understatement.

Now here it is June 18. I've "downgraded" my subscription so it doesn't include Copilot. I've deleted Copilot from Windows (although it tends to come back). Today Outlook Classic is displaying a Copilot dropdown in the upper right corner on the menu bar. So much for downgrading, eh?

If anyone has the IdMSO for this command button I'd try removing/disabling via Group Policy. But MSFT has made it very, very difficult to access that info lately.

Microsoft truly wants its consumer base to know how little they think of us.