Removing Copilot from Outlook email

Linda,

It's been over 6 months now and I too have a CoPilot button in my Microsoft Outlook that I find rather annoying and I am not able to remove.

I really don't plan to use it and I find it rather insulting to have this this button and not be allowed to turn it off, let alone be asked if I want the feature.

It's the same MS experience I receive since Microsoft made it mandatory that the links we see in Windows search and other places open through Microsoft Edge. This totally ignores my default web browser and takes control of my computer away from me. I think that there is a name for that, yes?

Now that MS has provided me a web browser that I can't control and a CoPilot button that I can't control what other freedoms is MS planning to take from me?

I don't think the copy and paste issue is even related to Copilot per se - it's been getting worse for a while, even before the AI inrush. I think it's because the clipboard is trying to be available to all the available apps, so there's a buffering delay after the copy action and before the paste action is enabled. I agree, completely infuriating, especially when trying to simply copy and paste within a spreadsheet or document and it has to freeze everything to "think about it."

Linda L you nailed it! Microsoft needs to listen! If there’s no option to remove copilot by next years 360 renewal I’ll be dumping my old PC and moving entirely to apple as will my family! I used Office originally as it was the work standard. I’ve stuck with 360 through 7 years of retirement But the price is increasing and the product is being degraded by copilot, who knows what it’s doing behind the scenes to our privacy? I’m currently getting 60 spam e-mails a day from the USA this is only since copilot appeared on our PC:s and I’m in the UK.

I do think copilot is more a gremlin, does anyone need to have an incoming email summarised! 😂🤣🤬🤬🤬

Why do you continue to add copilot to apps even AFTER I remove them. What is going on, this is a communist move. I don't what and have ZERO interest in copilot yet Microsoft continues to SHOVE it down our throats. Is this because the Chinese are now part owners of Microsoft? Now I see you are shoving copilot chat down our throats. Stop telling us what WE want.

I am replying to this feed. It is unfortunate that customers who pay excessive amounts of money to use these applications do not have the ability to control the features that they like or dislike. To be honest, I think it is an infringement on a person's privacy. Why would anyone need copilot to analyze or monitor anyone's email. Email communications should be private. License to use the software should not give the developer(s) the right to monitor or even see personal emails. It saddens me to realize that people no longer have the privacy and freedom that they once had. But the good news is; that privacy and freedom will be coming back in the distant future, and we won't have to give up our personal freedoms with software that keeps track of our personal communications. Just saying...........