Reading the article, it's so many conditions to be uninstallable I fear even Bill Gates himself couldn't.
this post was submitted on 13 Jan 2026
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I don't understand the universe in which this is not an option. in an enterprise scenario, you are being very specific about who you share your data with. That's why there's a market for self-hosted AI, and it's why a lot of companies will silo their data. if this thing was on all the time just sending your computer usage shit to Microsoft, there's no fucking way it would have any use in a corporate setting.
with that being said, I don't understand what this article is saying at all
The new policy will apply to devices where the Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft Copilot are both installed, the Microsoft Copilot app was not installed by the user, and the Microsoft Copilot app was not launched in the last 28 days.
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"If this policy is enabled, the Microsoft Copilot app will be uninstalled, once.
no, you know what? I don't care. it's really boring
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In the Enterprise editions of Windows, you can already uninstall it. Maybe not via group policy, but you can just find it in the Apps > Installed Apps list and right click to uninstall it. On the various home user editions of Windows, this is probably not the case. (I have zero systems running those, so I can't check.)
The Enterprise LTSC IoT version of Windows 10 doesn't even come with Copilot, nor have any updates for it thus far installed it on any of the systems I administer, either. Apparently only 11 does.
What's new here is apparently being able to trigger this via group policy, but for anyone in the here and now you can already disable Copilot via group policy as well, even on your local system, even on Windows 11.
I'm running Pro, and I don't see it as an installed app. Neither do I have it available as an app to run; the little copilot icon on the start menu just opens a web page.
Which means I must have already uninstalled it. Which means you should be able to uninstall it from Pro versions as well.
I see this has a nature healing moment. We are seeing a big technology company letting people remove AI from something not adding it in.
Doesn't really sound like an admin to me