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You can't turn off Copilot in the web versions of Word, Excel, or PowerPoint

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/turn-off-copilot-in-microsoft-365-apps-bc7e530b-152d-4123-8e78-edc06f8b85f1
72•artbristol•3h ago

Comments

Citizen_Lame•2h ago
Future is now, old man.
MisterKent•2h ago
Try going to OneDrive to see your stuff if you want to be really annoyed.
ch4s3•1h ago
Directions unclear, stuck in sharepoint auth loop.
bgwalter•2h ago
Inundate Microsoft Support with questions how to turn off Clippy Clanker until they stop. They did remove the original Clippy after a while.
dgan•2h ago
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•2h ago
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•1h ago
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•1h ago
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•1h ago
Feature so good you can't turn it off, so they can show in their internal metrics 100% adoption
DelightOne•1h ago
They don't wanna be like Facebooks' .1%.Thy know your user.
vee-kay•1h ago
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•1h ago
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.

SilverElfin•1h ago
Anticompetitive bundling. We need new laws to protect fair competition.
kulahan•1h ago
Like including only Internet Explorer in your OS? :)
more_corn•1h ago
We already have that
bigyabai•2m ago
> We need new laws to protect fair competition.

No we don't. We need to enforce the preexisting ones.

rtjahsgT•1h ago
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•1h ago
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•1h ago
they're competing for investor money by trying to shout "AI" the loudest
more_corn•1h ago
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•23m ago
To put a more positive spin on it, they should call it “muse”. It generates musings.
antiloper•59m ago
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.

normalaccess•24m ago
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.

Amazon stock soars 10% as earnings beat estimates

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/30/amazon-amzn-q3-earnings-report-2025.html
1•AznHisoka•2m ago•0 comments

Vibecoded tool that converts ArXiv papers to interactive podcasts

https://www.wadamczyk.io/projects/ekoacademic/index.html
6•wadamczyk•5m ago•0 comments

Using GLM-4.6 to reverse engineer Catan Universe browser game (WebGL and unity)

https://ankitmaloo.com/reverse-engg-catan/
1•ankit219•6m ago•0 comments

Why a Cloud-Seeding Experiment to Fight Air Pollution in India Failed

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/world/asia/india-rain-pollution-cloud-seeding.html
1•ChrisArchitect•7m ago•0 comments

Rebranding Superhuman, Grammarly, and Coda

https://medium.com/smith-diction/branding-superhuman-and-grammarly-and-coda-8c57f970bead
1•tonystubblebine•8m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Why didn't Google shake down ISPs?

1•h2zizzle•9m ago•1 comments

Blame Wi-Fi drivers for printer (mDNS) discovery issues

https://printserver.ink/blog/blame-wifi-drivers-for-printer-discovery-issues/
1•ValdikSS•13m ago•1 comments

New free AI visibility tool

https://www.veezow.com/
1•Atbech•13m ago•0 comments

Fix Your FODs

https://garnix.io/blog/fix-your-fods
1•todsacerdoti•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Bash Script Lightweight Directory Bookmarks for the Terminal

https://github.com/tomertouitoumail-ops/cd-bookmark
1•twilto•13m ago•0 comments

Wikipedia debates if Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is a Prince or not

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Prince_Andrew
3•robtaylor•14m ago•0 comments

CoSA After Effects (1992) [pdf]

https://www.cosa.com/museum/AE1.0_brochure.pdf
1•unleaded•14m ago•0 comments

Apple Reports 4Q 2025 Results: $27.5B Profit on $102.5B Revenue

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/10/30/apple-4q-2025-earnings/
1•mgh2•14m ago•2 comments

Gloomth

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n20/jon-day/gloomth
1•prismatic•17m ago•0 comments

Prompt Template and QC

https://www.vidau.ai/image-to-image-ai-generator-controlnet-made-simple/
1•Deboujee•18m ago•1 comments

Twilio to Acquire Stytch

https://www.twilio.com/en-us/blog/company/news/twilio-to-acquire-stytch
4•mvid•25m ago•0 comments

Migrating Schema from Oracle to YugabyteDB

https://hexacluster.ai/blog/oracle-to-yugabytedb/migrating-schema-from-oracle-to-yugabytedb-using...
1•avi_vallarapu•25m ago•0 comments

Sumo association turns 100: the sport's rituals shape ideas about Japan

https://theconversation.com/japans-sumo-association-turns-100-but-the-sports-rituals-have-a-much-...
1•PaulHoule•26m ago•0 comments

Rider-Waite-Smith tarot cards

https://steve-p.org/cards/RWSa.html
2•picture•27m ago•0 comments

AIO – Track how often AI models mention your site

https://aioscop.com
1•ciscow•28m ago•7 comments

Mental Health

https://kennethreitz.org/mental-health
2•dd_xplore•30m ago•0 comments

One API to book across Vagaro, Mindbody, Fresha, and other scheduling platforms

https://www.topfunnel.io/book-anywhere-interest?q=hn
1•venuur•30m ago•1 comments

Apple reports fourth quarter results

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/10/apple-reports-fourth-quarter-results/
14•mfiguiere•35m ago•11 comments

Tesla's scaled-back robotaxi timeline is lagging in regulatory approval

https://electrek.co/2025/10/30/tesla-scaled-back-robotaxi-timeline-lagging-regulatory-approval/
1•TheAlchemist•35m ago•1 comments

Three Stages of Enlightenment

https://essenceofsoftware.com/posts/three-stages/
1•ChadNauseam•38m ago•0 comments

Long Covid in Kids: What Pediatricians Need to Know

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/secondary-infections-and-long-covid-kids-what-pediatricians-...
1•amichail•38m ago•1 comments

If humans went extinct, could we re-evolve? (don't expect a carbon copy.)

https://bigthink.com/mini-philosophy/if-humans-went-extinct-could-we-re-evolve/
2•Marshferm•39m ago•0 comments

Marimo Is Joining CoreWeave

https://marimo.io/blog/joining-coreweave
3•mjshashank•39m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Md-pdf-md – Bidirectional Markdown<>PDF with local AI vision

https://www.npmjs.com/package/md-pdf-md
1•josharsh•39m ago•0 comments

Why the Em Dash Isn't an AI Tell

https://idiotmystic.com/f/in-defense-of-the-em-dash-%E2%80%94-why-it%E2%80%99s-not-a-sign-of-ai-b...
3•zakelfassi•42m ago•2 comments