No More Dumping Microslop On Your Laptop
Microsoft was prevented from spreading their Copilot nightmare across the European Economic Area in December of 2025, while the rest of us pretty much had to live with the fact it was going to be installed whether we wanted it or not. In business environments it was possible for admins to block some Copilot installs, but it quickly became a constant battle. Microsoft would find a new piece of software to infect but wouldn’t proactively supply a way to prevent its ingress until enough sysadmins screamed at their support team for them to provide a new tool. Home users were not offered a way to prevent the installation of Microslop, but we came up with our own solutions.
Microsoft seems to have received enough negative feedback about the forcible installation of Microsoft 365 Copilot and will no longer automatically push it to new Windows installations. This won’t remove it from existing systems, but if you reimage your machine or set up a new one you will not see Microsoft 365 Copilot if you use O359 apps. This is, unfortunately, not the same as the Microsoft Copilot for desktop app and that is still pushed to people outside of the EEA.
This could also be a financially driven decision; delusional executives at Microsoft may see this a way to increase the sales of the full Microsoft 365 Copilot licenses. They are likely to be incredibly surprised and disappointed if that is the case.
