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Microsoft may soon allow IT admins to uninstall Copilot (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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[–] tabular@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Hardware alone is not a working computer. If you control the software running on your computer then that software is yours (like it's your book on your bookshelf even though another person owns the copyright). If someone else controls your computer then that erodes your ownership of it.