Removing Copilot from Outlook email

Copilot is clearly on while they use our emails to feed its AI. Without our consent. So, even if they decide to remove it now, I'm positive all our emails (years of them for many of us) have been feed to Copilot AI education. Without our consent.

Absolutely decided, in view of their short-sighted policies a whole series of changes. I said it before but now it's even more.

-I need Hotmail for work reasons but use Thunderbird and Gmail to suck up all past emails.

-Stop radically the use of MS OneDrive and moved to Google's Drive (as I prefer to marry the bad that we know than being goose-feed these corp. abuses from MS). Use Proton for most private messages.

-Avoid as much as possible MS Office moved to LibreOffice and other options.

-Use Firefox as default browser, pdf reader etc. and avoid Edge like the plague.

-In the big new computer dual boot to Linux Mint and Windows 10

-Yes! Resist the move to 11 at whatever cost (still can not forgive MS for removing WordPad from Windows 11).

-Gave my Xbox to a friend's kid and cancel anything related to Xbox gaming.

-Buy Steam Deck and use Steam OS in Linux. Also got the PS5.

-Bought a new Chrome-Plus laptop to have other options and learn its environment. Never before I was so motivated to do so.

-Borrowing my wife's IPad to see how I can live with Apple.

-There is huge paradigm shift in how I use the PC (and I built them for hobby since MS Dos).

I'm sure there is more to come.

Worst of all is that imho even if you could remove copilot now it's too late. Nothing short from an apology and legal assurances that our emails have not been used for their AI education could cut it.

I agree. Inability to remove Copalot is also leading me to look elsewhere.

Why I am not asked to "consent" to this wretched feature ?

This is truly unbelievable I cannot disable this completely idiotic feature.

Dear Linda and Microsoft,

I am writing in support of the many users who want Copilot to be an OPTIONAL feature in Outlook email that can be easily disabled. As others have noted, I find Copilot to be distracting and intrusive. I do not wish to be guided in reading or writing my email. It is presumptuous (and insulting) for Microsoft to presume that I can't compose my own email messages. Furthermore, the recipients of my email messages want to read MY writing, not some AI Bot's language.

Please provide an option to disable Copilot.

I remember the good old days! In fact, I was using CD's to install programs, right up until they convinced me I had to switch to Windows 10 because 7 was no longer going to be supported. 10 wouldn't let me use the old CD's. They were great! You learn how the program works ONCE and then get to use it forever. (Or so I thought.) It was a useful tool, not a continual source if frustration. But, I was under the impression that there was no way to use CDs to install programs under the current versions of Windows. All of which has me wondering how hard it would be to learn how to use Linux instead.

Do any of you think there's a remote chance that Microsoft actually cares what we think?