[HN Gopher] You can't turn off Copilot in the web versions of Wo...
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You can't turn off Copilot in the web versions of Word, Excel, or
PowerPoint
Author : artbristol
Score : 87 points
Date : 2025-10-30 17:10 UTC (5 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (support.microsoft.com)
| Citizen_Lame wrote:
| Future is now, old man.
| MisterKent wrote:
| Try going to OneDrive to see your stuff if you want to be really
| annoyed.
| ch4s3 wrote:
| Directions unclear, stuck in sharepoint auth loop.
| bgwalter wrote:
| Inundate Microsoft Support with questions how to turn off Clippy
| Clanker until they stop. They _did_ remove the original Clippy
| after a while.
| dgan wrote:
| You also cant disable the stupid "Pin Copilote" in teams, even if
| the company doesnt actyally have copilote
|
| Just regular agressivness from an agressive company
| mainecoder wrote:
| please can we have a no AI button perhaps with regulation even
| when using AI if someone does not want it temporarily it can be
| toggled off but they need AI was used by X % of users and
| millions of times metrics for promo so NO
| hagbard_c wrote:
| There is a crude version of such a button but it might no be
| what you want: the _No Microsoft_ button. It behaves just like
| its siblings, the _No Google_ , _No Apple_ and all the other
| _No ${undesirable_company}_ buttons. As long as you allow any
| of those companies access to your data they will be used for
| whatever purposes they consider beneficial to their
| competitiveness and /or bottom lines. Should this be found it
| it generally was a 'mistake' which will be 'rectified' and the
| dance continues. The only way to win this game is to refuse
| playing it, How a bout a nice game of chess?
| vee-kay wrote:
| AI LLMs are not profitable because they are not the product, we
| are the product (our data - our information, our privacy, our
| identity, our needs, our desires, our family photos/videos,
| etc.).
|
| So no, the AI "feature" cannot be turned off, because it needs
| to be active and continuously spying on us and leeching our
| data to "train" them to spy better and more intrusively.
|
| All so we get targeted ads everywhere that are more tightly
| coupled to our lives, and so our lives can be dictated,
| controlled and exploited by the powers that be.
| rschiavone wrote:
| Feature so good you can't turn it off, so they can show in their
| internal metrics 100% adoption
| DelightOne wrote:
| They don't wanna be like Facebooks' .1%.Thy know your user.
| vee-kay wrote:
| And we don't even need to wait till Copilot starts serving us
| popup ads.
|
| https://www.pcworld.com/article/2633816/giant-ai-ads-are-com...
| jandrese wrote:
| I switched entirely to Libreoffice a few years ago and am still
| waiting to slam into that "this feature is only found in real MS
| Office" wall that everybody told me was coming.
|
| I don't think I'm going to switch back over OneDrive or Copilot
| integration.
| UnserMannInK wrote:
| Im still waiting as well. And while I've found it to be
| infuriating at times it is still better than ,,the real" Office
| for everything I do.
| RandomBacon wrote:
| The only issue I've run into is in Spreadsheet vs Excel:
|
| I would like to multi-color a cell.
|
| I believe Excel does this by dividing the cell diagonally and
| coloring each triangle differently.
|
| Im Spreadsheet, I just use a solid background and then a
| different color border.
| SilverElfin wrote:
| Anticompetitive bundling. We need new laws to protect fair
| competition.
| kulahan wrote:
| Like including only Internet Explorer in your OS? :)
| more_corn wrote:
| We already have that
| bigyabai wrote:
| > We need new laws to protect fair competition.
|
| No we don't. We need to enforce the preexisting ones.
| rtjahsgT wrote:
| The detrimental influence of "Satya" (why do people like Bibi and
| Satya always have the cute names for sympathy?) continues. He is
| a horrible person:
|
| https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/mic...
|
| Maybe Stephen Miller should take look at deportation.
| JohnFen wrote:
| It really does seem like Microsoft is intentionally making the
| lives of their users difficult, like they're trying to win some
| sort of malevolent contest.
| ratelimitsteve wrote:
| they're competing for investor money by trying to shout "AI"
| the loudest
| more_corn wrote:
| We should start calling it "the hallucinator" Can you imagine how
| this is going to look when the first excel hallucinations start
| cropping up?
| layer8 wrote:
| To put a more positive spin on it, they should call it "muse".
| It generates musings.
| antiloper wrote:
| Copilot is the most incompetent AI tool I've ever used, which is
| bizarre since you'd think with the Microsoft/OpenAI partnership
| they'd make it so that Copilot uses the ChatGPT model.
|
| It's most egregious on Azure, which has a copilot button on every
| page, and anytime I try to ask it about a precise configuration
| question for a resource, it NEVER answers correctly. So you have
| to search on whatever set of microsoft Q&A platforms,
| stackoverflow questions, and github issues/discussions to maybe
| find an answer like in the prehistory of 2020.
| curioussquirrel wrote:
| Azure copilot is really something. It can't see the context of
| the page it's embedded in, and the message you send is limited
| to 500 characters, so good luck pasting a log or configuration.
| normalaccess wrote:
| That's because AIs can't survive by eating their own output. The
| only solution they know to ward off model collapse is more human
| input. They _need_ _you_ to use AI to feed the beast. And if it
| 's built into your office apps, they get that data for free.
|
| That's part of why every service and system are getting
| integrations, It's not for us it's for data harvesting.
|
| In the end that's what "Windows Recall" will be used for. Access
| to every moment of every user for every app... Can you imagine
| the training data that would provide? An AI that could run any
| program ever created.
| profsummergig wrote:
| I used to go to office.com to use web versions of Word, Excel,
| Powerpoint.
|
| Imagine my pleasant surprise (/s) when recently I went there, and
| the icons for these apps had vanished. Instead there was a giant
| gaping textbox for Copilot. A minute or so of staring at it, and
| I noticed a "Create" link on the left. That led to a page that
| invited me to do various things (e.g. "create a presentation",
| presumably with the web version of PowerPoint). The icons were
| still missing though.
|
| Also notable: My work-issued Windows computer has Copilot, and
| Copilot 365. I have no idea which does what, and what's the
| difference between the two.
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