I'm noticing the same thing -- OWA lets you turn off the Copilot button, and then you come back later and it "helpfully" re-enabled it for you.

Even on my happy Linux machine there's no getting away from that.

This last time its stayed off 2 days now. We will seeeee

Mon Apr 20 2026 15:07:33 UTC from IGnatius T Foobar

I'm noticing the same thing -- OWA lets you turn off the Copilot button, and then you come back later and it "helpfully" re-enabled it for you.

Even on my happy Linux machine there's no getting away from that.

Well, its back on. 

But, i dont know who to be pissed at, MS or our admins..  it could be our people forcing it back on. Donno.

Mon Apr 20 2026 15:15:30 UTC from Nurb432

This last time its stayed off 2 days now. We will seeeee

Mon Apr 20 2026 15:07:33 UTC from IGnatius T Foobar

I'm noticing the same thing -- OWA lets you turn off the Copilot button, and then you come back later and it "helpfully" re-enabled it for you.

Even on my happy Linux machine there's no getting away from that.

 

If it was just the button and 'extra options' id not care so much, but it gets in the way of even a simple reply by putting its 'active stuff' right in the way.

Wed Apr 22 2026 02:56:15 UTC from IGnatius T Foobar

I'm glad it's not just me. I was thinking maybe there's some sort of company-wide setting forcing it back on, but I think they're really just that kind of "you will see ze copilot and you will like it"

I even tried element-zapping the button with my adblocker, but it came back so the div name must be dynamic.

Well, in OWA at least, they brought back a normal right click = menu.. including the spelling options. ( still not the true browser menu, but better than nothing )  Perhaps they did  listen to millions of screaming voices..

The whole thing is broken and the only acceptable course of action is to throw Bill Gates into a wood chipper.

But you knew that.

And the people that force us to use it.  its 2026. There are other options.

Mon May 04 2026 03:36:08 UTC from IGnatius T Foobar

The whole thing is broken and the only acceptable course of action is to throw Bill Gates into a wood chipper.

But you knew that.

And speaking of outlook. just noticed a popup "people in the office" wtf. that and whom ever had that idea needs to also be pushed into the chipper.  Aside from it being yet more crap on the screen, unless you have an organization of 2 its worthless. "here are 4 people out of your 30k organization that happen to be in the office today! yay! go visit them!"

And no way to opt out unless you hide your location, which we cant do, since having that IS useful to management and people scheduling meetings. 

Freaking morons.

Microsoft is not the machine it was when I first arrived here. Their decisions lately seem engineered to fail. 

I think most companies are like this now, regardless of industry.  They have all lost their way ( be their core intent good, or evil ) and have moved towards 'following the winds of the day', with little understanding of what is blowing the wind in that, temporary, direction.

Not sure the root of the cause, but it seems epidemic. 

But that is from an outsider view. 

Thu May 07 2026 03:18:58 EDT from ParanoidDelusions

Microsoft is not the machine it was when I first arrived here. Their decisions lately seem engineered to fail. 

Had to use my windows VDI a bit this morning. Every time i touch windows i hate it even more. WTF Microsoft, do you enjoy making things hard to navigate? And to be fair, Apple too..  they make things that should be trivial a pain in the neck.

And i'm so sick of 'collaboration' and 'focus' and all the other woke crap.