Microsoft says the new Copilot app, mistakenly added to the list of installed Windows apps by recent Edge updates, doesn’t collect or relay data to its servers.

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      8 months ago

      The web browser does communicate with their servers, clearly, since it’s installing Copilot on enterprise servers.

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    8 months ago

    I’m using Outlook on my Android phone for my really old school Hotmail account. Yes, I have Gmail too but this is just one I’ve had for years.

    When I tried opening an external link it asked me if I wanted to use Edge and has it selected above my “default FF” option… I mean, what the hell guys.

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      8 months ago

      I have FF set as default browser. Teams opens any link in edge.

      Microsoft has fully gone off the deep end of batshit crazy

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        8 months ago

        They lost an antitrust suit over this precise behavior back in the early days of the web. Bill Gates went and pulled a Kavanaugh in front of Congress.