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Microsoft Will Again Force-Install Microsoft 365 Copilot App on Windows 11
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this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2026
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I feel sorry for anyone stuck on a Windows system for work. Pouring one out for your system resources.
This is me. I got a new work laptop last November with a good spec and loads of ram, because I'm a "power user" ... and it absolutely drags on every little thing.
Windows Explorer falls over sometimes. Click on the start menu and wait for it to catch up. Lots if waiting for updates to complete. Don't get me started on actually running MS programs on it.
And this is the Enterprise version with the worst shit already switched off.
Meanwhile, at home I have a 12 year old Thinkpad that was decidedly mid-spec when new, with completely stock Linux Mint, which flies along (the only change from stock being an SSD, and lots of stickers). I don't even need to switch to a lighter window manager :-)
I'm an engineer and all my coworkers got laptop "upgrades" at work. They've all had similar experiences. Rverything is just slower on them.
For some reason I wasn't included in the same round of upgrades, and I'm happy for it.
Indeed. I really didn't like Windows 10, but this is ridiculous :-(
i had to use a w11 laptop today, it was so horrendous to navigate.
Last week I almost missed my train because of windows update.
Every day my hatred for Windows, well Microsoft as a whole really, grows. Every time I launch the almost incomprehensibly bad piece of shit that is Outlook, every time I have to restart explorer.exe because of some dumb bug that I remember from Windows 7, every time I try to mount a network share that has the same hostname as an already mounted one, every time the start bar launches Edge (not my default browser) to look something up on Bing (not my default search engine) despite my having turned that feature off, every time I have to dive into some settings to disable yet another copilot button, my desire to break into Satya Nutella's home when he's on vacation and spill old milk all over his furniture increases by a noticeable degree.
Due to work security policies, using remote VMs, I'm technically using like 3 windows systems at the same time for work every day 💀
I bump the stupid copilot key far too often, but since it's not installed it just brings up a window going "uh.... you need to update copilot or something idk"
I appreciate that, thanks.