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Microsoft says the new Copilot app, mistakenly added to the list of installed Windows apps by recent Edge updates, doesn't collect or relay data to its servers.

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[–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 1 year ago

Imagine your operating system getting so bloated, that your bloat starts installing more bloat

[–] nul9o9@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That sounds like something a web browser should be doing.

[–] alekwithak@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

The web browser does communicate with their servers, clearly, since it's installing Copilot on enterprise servers.

[–] lobut@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm using Outlook on my Android phone for my really old school Hotmail account. Yes, I have Gmail too but this is just one I've had for years.

When I tried opening an external link it asked me if I wanted to use Edge and has it selected above my "default FF" option.. I mean, what the hell guys.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have FF set as default browser. Teams opens any link in edge.

Microsoft has fully gone off the deep end of batshit crazy

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

They lost an antitrust suit over this precise behavior back in the early days of the web. Bill Gates went and pulled a Kavanaugh in front of Congress.

[–] HeckGazer@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago

Common MS QA L

[–] germtm_@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

keyword: mistakenly