The company is reducing Copilot entry points on Windows, starting with Photos, Widgets, Notepad, and other apps.

Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/20/microsoft-rolls-back-some-of-its-copilot-ai-bloat-on-windows/

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[–] 3 points 7 months ago*

Eh. Okay. If you are saying that copilot sends no data back to microsoft relating to what I am doing on my PC... I.. believe?... You? Thanks?

One way or another, copilot was running on my PC after an update and was causing a lag in everything including mouse and keyboard input. I disabled it using this method : https://youtu.be/huKvvOKbkaA and the lag immediately went away with no other change.

So I don't care if they were sending my personal keyboard info to Putin himself, to copilot main model as prompts, just storing training info in a binary file on my pc or just sitting there doing "nothing" and clogging my memory, it was making a noticeable difference in my PC operation.

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