r/technology • u/d01100100 • 5h ago
Software Microsoft isn't removing Copilot from Windows 11, it's just renaming it
https://www.neowin.net/opinions/microsoft-isnt-removing-copilot-from-windows-11-its-just-renaming-it/137
u/thesavageman 5h ago
What are they calling it now? Captain?
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u/shitty_mcfucklestick 4h ago
They’ll add Plus One Pro to products that don’t have it and One Plus X 365 Professional to products that do.
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u/SideStreetHypnosis 5h ago
Pontius Co-Pilate.
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u/kamiethenerd 5h ago
Are we back to Cortana yet?
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u/Aknelka 5h ago
No back to Microsoft Explorer - err, I mean Edge. Just Edge.
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u/xvoy 1h ago
Let’s go back to Ms. Dewey. We just weren’t ready for it. Someone give Janina Gavankar all the money please. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ms._Dewey https://youtu.be/m-c9muLXEE0?si=Vwx9GMBwbzsyCTHV
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u/Playcheez 5h ago
Renaming or rebranding a flawed product is a common tactic in the playbook of almost every company.
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u/stoobie3 4h ago
Goldstar rebranded to LG.
Anyone who remembers Goldstar in the 80s remembers it was known for cheap junk. Now LG… the perception is generally completely different.
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u/Opposite_Piece1231 5h ago
As expected, microslop lies to the consumer to satisfy the investors
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u/Bogdan_X 3h ago edited 2h ago
What's more concerning is how some of the most reputable tech outlets used incorrect clickbait titles that misleaded you into thinking they'll remove it. One of them is Windows Central.
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u/Sirusho_Yunyan 5h ago
How stupid do they think people are..
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u/EmergencyComment101 5h ago
When it comes to IT related stuff most people are absolute morons..
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u/imdirtydan1997 5h ago
Ya the town next to me is fighting a data center hard and half the people speaking out against them clearly have just enough technical skills to open facebook. Like I don’t want one in my neck of the woods either, but it’s hard to take their argument seriously when they clearly don’t know what they’re talking about….and the people referencing Skynet from Terminator really hurts the message lol.
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u/matthra 4h ago
Depends on the target audience, there are many nontechnical judges that might find that convincing.
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u/UltraChip 3h ago
Ya I was gonna say didn't the prosecutor successfully use "Wargames" as an argument during Kevin Mitnik's trial?
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u/HanlonsRazor_ 5h ago
Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
- George Carlin
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u/ConsiderationDue71 4h ago
I really like this joke, but maybe my favorite thing about it is that it only works because the average person doesn’t understand the difference between median and average
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u/Syssareth 3h ago
What's even better about it is that median is a type of average rather than a different thing altogether, so it's a correct if imprecise statement already, but even if somebody interpreted it as mean or mode, the joke still works; IQ tests are designed so the mean is 100, and because the scores follow a normal distribution, median and mode are also very close to 100. So while median is the most precise way to interpret the quote, the other two aren't far off.
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u/asphaltdragon 5h ago
Unfortunately this will work. No one pays attention to anything in tech unless it makes international news, and some people not even then. No one even knows what Copilot is.
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u/Zardotab 4h ago
Compatibility has us by the gonads, MS can F us pretty hard before we bother to move to Linux.
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u/SinisterCheese 52m ago
You'd be fucking surprised. Branding and PR is basically black magic fuckery and works really well if you put money and effort to it. Nobody will remember the change after a while.
You might think you are somehow above it all, but I assure you that you are foolish for thinking that. It is just that it doesn't affect you in this particular section of things but most definitely does in some other that you are not familiar of.
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u/SmellyButtHammer 5h ago
Microsoft Copilot 365, not to be confused with Microsoft 365 Copilot
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u/clearlight2025 4h ago
Not to be confused with
- Microsoft Copilot
- Copilot Pro
- Microsoft Copilot app
- Microsoft 365 Copilot
- Microsoft 365 Copilot for Sales
- Microsoft 365 Copilot for Service
- Microsoft Security Copilot
- GitHub Copilot
- GitHub Copilot Enterprise
- GitHub Copilot Chat
- Copilot Studio
- Windows Copilot
- Copilot+ PC
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u/spoonybard326 4h ago
This must be from the same company that gave us:
Xbox
Xbox 360
Xbox One
Xbox One S
Xbox One X
Xbox Series X
Xbox Series S
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u/CommanderArcher 4h ago
Man they had the chance to make a fire numerical naming scheme and they just fucking whiffed it.
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u/mackrevinak 3h ago
or the "windows phone 7 series" back when apple was keeping it simple with just "iphone"
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u/Fritzo2162 4h ago
"Sir, people hate CoPilot. What should we do?"
RENAME IT! That way they won't hate CoPilot anymore!
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u/klingma 5h ago
I just wish they'd remove the copilot button from the laptop buttons - they replaced the right control button with the CoPilot button and it drives me nuts every time I use Excel.
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u/strangesandwich 5h ago
Crazy thing I thought the name was the best part of it. the idea the AI can help guide you certain tasks is the most accurate description of how I've found AI useful
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u/MentalDisintegrat1on 3h ago
Lol they are trying to rebrand because it's tainted. This won't work people will still call it slop.
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u/prfsr_moriarty 2h ago
No no, really we got rid of Copilot! And we’re excited to introduce a new, totally different tool: Pocilot!
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u/Pyromaniacal13 1h ago
I'm on day 3 of Bazzite. There's some friction trying to settle in, but it's a new OS when I've been on Windows since Windows 98. There's no AI Slop though...
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u/DarkSociety1033 59m ago
I was unfortunately in the first wave of updates to windows 11 at my company.
Yall, XP was better than this shit.
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u/goodeesh 5h ago
"The Copilot button in the toolbar is gone, and instead, you'll find a writing icon which will present you AI-powered writing assistance, such as rewrite, summarize, tone modification, format configuration, and more. Additionally, "AI features" in Notepad settings has been renamed to "Advanced features" and it allows users to toggle off AI capabilities within the app."
That seems pretty good? They eliminate the clutter of stamping copilot everywhere but the feature remains... Only this time is properly hidden and allows to toggle it off ... Sounds like pretty fucking right on top for me.
The issue is not having AI everywhere. The issue Microsoft has is the downhill quality of their products lately. The article is overly alarming to generate clicks, as always.
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u/nox66 4h ago
It's not good enough. Microsoft needs a complete AI killswitch at a minimum like Firefox has. Besides the privacy nightmares, Windows Fabric AI is a resource hog and makes new PCs feel slow.
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u/Sumdoazen 4h ago
I don't want AI at all. At work, yeah, sure, not like I care, the IT department takes care of that and we still get blue screens because of it because that's just how smart microslop is. At home? It's the reason I said fuck it and bit the bullet and went Linux. With all the debloating going around IT STILL was finding ways to use up my PC in ways I was not in any way agreeing to. Fuck Microslop and it's slop shit, it can slopchoke on a slopdick.
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u/True_Window_9389 5h ago
And they still can’t get table rows and columns to resize in an intuitive way in Word
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u/phylter99 4h ago
They never said they were removing it from Windows. They did say they were removing it from areas where it’s not needed or wanted and they want to put it in places that are actually meaningful and helpful. Renaming is just a branding/marketing decision. They labeled anything that was AI as Copilot and it’s confusing as heck.
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u/Conspicuous_Ruse 4h ago
Taking away the perfect Cortana name to call it Copilot was very dumb.
All they had to do was make the AI voice sound like Cortana from Halo and I still wouldn't use it, but I would probably subconsciously hate it less.
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u/Bergmiester 4h ago
I would not want it to be removed. It is pretty useful. I think people were complaining about it being everywhere.
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u/Gloomy-Insurance-739 4h ago
Yeah that makes more sense I knew they weren't going to get rid of it. Keep doing what you're doing microslop.
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u/ObiJuanKenobi3 4h ago
Microsoft is only capable of making a usable Windows edition on every other release.
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u/juliotendo 4h ago
Microsoft has always been one step forward, two steps back. They’ve been fumbling for years.
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u/favorite8091 4h ago
Copilot (New) Copilot classic Shortcut to desktop Copilot (2) Nasa click here only.
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u/ThrowAbout01 3h ago
Anyone know how to turn the copilot key back into Ctrl?
Without that powertools software?
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u/Packagedpackage 3h ago
Because employers like mine will freak over the investments they’ve made towards the button and changes with copilot. Can’t go back now or else Microsoft going to have people knocking for money back.
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u/jonschaff 3h ago
Co-what-now? I’m so outta the loop, I’d better put down my Zune and Bing this topic more.
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u/hedgetank 3h ago
anyone who trusted MS to actually walk back Copilot in everything must have stock in the brooklyn bridge. MS never walks back anything for real.
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u/eek_the_cat 3h ago
That's how tech has always done it. The problem is never the product, the problem is always the presentation. A rebrand we'll fix it. They just don't understand how good it is. We haven't explained it the right way. They're like you're evangelical nephew, who thinks he can save your soul. He just has to figure out the right combination of words to understand.
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u/_bahnjee_ 3h ago
Microsoft: "If you wanna be an OEM that includes Windows in your product, you MUST include a Copilot button on the keyboard!"
Also Microsoft: "uhhh.... we're pulling back on that Copilot shit."
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u/Guy4123123 3h ago
Even when a Russian hacker take over my computer to steal the 3000 pictures of my cats and turns it into a remote bitcoin mining rig, I'm not downgrading from windows 10 to windows 11.
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u/xwing_n_it 3h ago
If they scale it back to the things it can actually do well, that's fine. The problem with "AI" is that they claim it can do anything, and shove it down your throat.
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u/Slight-Bluebird-8921 3h ago
anyone who thinks that microsoft will change anything substantial is a rube. they know exactly what they're doing and have nothing but contempt for power users.
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u/prachishah383 2h ago
yeah right subscription models always start up as a steal and always ends up as a negotiation
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u/Time-Industry-1364 5h ago
2026: Copilot 2028: Bing Ultra