How to remove Copilot AI from your Office 365 subscription: hit ‘cancel’ pivot-to-ai.com/2025/02/06/h... cheers to @garius.bsky.social - ThreadSky

davidgerard.co.uk • 108 days ago

How to remove Copilot AI from your Office 365 subscription: hit ‘cancel’

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/02/06/how-to-remove-copilot-ai-from-your-office-365-subscription-hit-cancel/

cheers to @garius.bsky.social

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islandnana64.bsky.social•107 days ago

Never heard of it til now. Why is it bad and needs to be removed? 📌

theottawamouse.bsky.social•107 days ago

It eats up processing speed and space. Your system, no matter how powerful it is, will run like a 386.

islandnana64.bsky.social•107 days ago

Thank you for that explanation. I thought it might be something more nefarious. 😂

davidgerard.co.uk•107 days ago

oh it does nefarious too, the AI is out at microsoft and/or openai so your private docs get sent there

islandnana64.bsky.social•107 days ago

Gotcha!

xtingu.bsky.social•107 days ago

If you want to avoid the whole subscription/cloud nonsense all together, you can nab MS Office 2021 (one-time purchase like god intended) here for almost half off, until Feb 23rd (Thank you @boingboing.bsky.social !)

https://bsky.app/profile/boingboing.bsky.social/post/3lhhwfdqd7r2q

davidgerard.co.uk•107 days ago

there's also Office 2024 if you need the latest in fancy excel etc

theottawamouse.bsky.social•107 days ago

I highly recommend removing it. It basically uses your system to learn from you, eating up tons of bandwidth and processing space in the doing. Your system will run like 386 processor trying to run Windows10 and BG3 and a video streaming service all at the same time. Just remove.

reidparker.bsky.social•107 days ago

Must only work for single plans, or maybe I’m on a discount.
Good to know this might be an option for the future though!

davidgerard.co.uk•107 days ago

wild

philadlj.bsky.social•107 days ago

Now how do we get rid of that damn U2 album?

denialdesign.co.uk•107 days ago

Thank you! Worked like a charm.

horriblegif.bsky.social•108 days ago

Is this why the entire 1000+ workforce at my job is now locked out of of their ms office licenses?

reselsnark.bsky.social•107 days ago

This didn’t work for me in Australia at the end of last year. The option never appeared.

I had to fight with their sales team (NB sales, not support, who couldn’t do anything to help) to even admit it existed. They then tried to say they ‘didn’t have any offers for classic at the moment’.

reselsnark.bsky.social•107 days ago

Only when I told them to cancel my subscription entirely did they ‘talk to their manager’ and were finally did it.

So even if the link doesn’t appear for you, contact the sales team in your area and play hard ball.

Come prepared with articles like this if they pretend to not know what classic is.

chinnyvision.bsky.social•107 days ago

Cancelled my sub and now trying out Libre Office.

millheim.com•108 days ago

Family plan didn’t offer downgrade for me- only downgrade to personal single license. So we fully cancelled

jerandom.bsky.social•108 days ago

Ah monopolistic pricing mixed with dark patterns. Fun stuff that in a just society would get the owners of the company at the very least put in stocks and pelted with rotten vegetables

karlo-m.bsky.social•108 days ago

📌

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