r/pcmasterrace • u/After_Cookies • 7d ago

News/Article “Nobody wants Copilot”: Microsoft pauses Copilot on Windows 11’s taskbar to “incorporate your feedback," as Microslop backlash continues

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/10/07/nobody-wants-copilot-microsoft-pauses-copilot-on-windows-11s-taskbar-to-incorporate-your-feedback/
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u/IDKForA 7d ago

They’re not scared. They only listen to OEMs and corporations. It’s probably the OEMs who pushed back against this,

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u/Dick_Nation There's nothing to see here. 7d ago

They also are going to respond to states. Multiple major European countries have already executed or are in the process of switching away from Microsoft products for all public sector usage. That's not minor. Every branch of their install base has some portion of it that is concerned or upset about things MS is doing; they can't just pretend it's not happening and be indifferent to it if they intend to continue having their services be used. You don't stay on top by doing nothing. 

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u/aVarangian 13600kf 7900xtx 2160 | 6600k 1070 1440 7d ago

licenses for individual big entities like that probably makes them more money than all of pcmasterrace combined

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u/Dick_Nation There's nothing to see here. 7d ago

It's pretty likely, yes. The average consumer user is just using an OEM install of Windows and a minute fraction of those users are paying an additional fee for OneDrive, or Office, or something along those lines. Meanwhile, corporate customers are paying licensing for entire fleets at once, with a bunch of redundancies and backups, and full product suites to be used by every employee. When I was running a Windows machine, I paid a Windows license once, and declined to use a single other Microsoft service. Meanwhile, I worked for multiple employers during that time that had us using Outlook, Excel, Word, Publisher, OneNote, and so on. Losing me as a home consumer to Linux will be a rounding error on their books, but dropping an entire organization of thousands of licenses, that's an annoyance.