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Scrubbles to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish • 1 year ago

Windows users don't want copilot on their taskbar

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Windows users don't want copilot on their taskbar

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Scrubbles to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish • 1 year ago
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Windows users don’t want Copilot on their taskbar; they want it in the bin.
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“Get it the **** off my system” and “in the trash where it belongs” were common refrains as users voiced their displeasure at having Copilot forced upon them. Numerous reports emerged of people imm…
  • @odelik@lemmy.today
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    And you’ll have a choice to not install them. Or to install versions that you know how they were trained and have guardrails you approve of.

    • @jarfil@beehaw.org
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      I posit that you’ll have the same choice on Windows… just wait for some antitrust attorneys to smell the blood 😉

      • @odelik@lemmy.today
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        I’m an American, I won’t get the luxuries of the EU court rulings.

        • @jarfil@beehaw.org
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          1 year ago

          Good news then! Because the ability to switch the default Windows browser, comes from a US court case:

          https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Corp.

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