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Microsoft is silently installing Copilot onto Windows Server 2022 (mastodon.gamedev.place)

submitted 7 months ago by lemmyreader@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] AMDIsOurLord@lemmy.ml 24 points 7 months ago (2 children)

There are 5 million ways to configure windows and each have an absurd and almost by-design level of convolution. You can't possibly expect people to know about a new GPO immediately

[+] Trollception@lemmy.world -10 points 7 months ago (2 children)

That is why companies will hire good sys admins who do their job and stay on top of the important group policy settings. This absolutely would not be missed by any reasonably competent IT dept.

[–] AMDIsOurLord@lemmy.ml 6 points 7 months ago

A company that's using Windows Server is not hiring the brightest mfers

[–] bitfucker@programming.dev 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I don't use windows so I don't know the specifics. If microsoft is INFORMING the user beforehand about this change (that copilot switch/policy is now available) AND DISCLOSE that in the future if you didn't touch this switch then copilot may be installed, sure, blame admin. Otherwise, this is a shitty move from software update POV

To add: Maybe you can link the change log provided by microsoft before this update that adds those switches or rules to prove that it has indeed been disclosed to the admin.