I am working really hard to not start using Copilot.

And belive me, if you use any Microsoft products or services they really make it hard to avoid accidentally using the damn thing.

Including adding it to your office plan and then charging you 2x.

Gotta love how they moved the "Create Email/meeting" buttons in Outlook mobile and stuck the Copilot button there so that you will hit it accidentally.

I’m a Mac user and the only way to get Office 365 is a monthly subscription. Since there’s no subscription that doesn’t include CoPilot and since they hiked the price with the excuse that they’d added this thing I didn’t want, I just cancelled my subscription. A customer lost: hardly an issue, but if enough people do it, maybe they’ll get a clue and stop ramming this unwelcome abomination down our throats.

You can buy a perpetual Mac Office 2024, if you want.

I’ve only used it once, for WorkFlow creation but it seemed really useful there, but that may be more of an indictment of WorkFlow than an endorsement of CoPilot.

Like when i went to my github account to withdraw all copilot consents - which i never used anyway

just to be greeted with an email that welcomed me to copilot and the free plan. No button or link to disable the thing.

> No button or link to disable the thing.

The line i initially quoted:

> You may stop using Copilot at any time.

Was incomplete. It continues with what initially appears to be a non sequitur:

> You may stop using Copilot at any time. If you want to close your Microsoft Account, please see the Microsoft Services Agreement.

It may not be a non sequitur, but may well be the only way to "opt out" of Copilot.

I don't even have a microsoft account! anything microsoft i had (like the ancient hotmail address) was deleted years ago

104.3a A player can concede the game at any time.

But according to the Birmingham modifications of 1973, subsection 12.b, stroke 7a, a player so conceding is not deemed to have actually conceded unless they be within a finite number of hops from Mornington Crescent station at the time of the concession.

No, as part of the Cameron rules of 2016, concession means concession, regardless of anything else (including whether or not it’s a good idea).

Does that mean I can get an ice cream?

I think so, I think they proposed ice creams only for those who haven’t been in Nidd since the 2021 Paris incident, but that got voted down.

> > You may stop using Copilot at any time.

> That's an odd thing to include in a ToS.

Maybe it's the only Microsoft product for which that's true? (It certainly feels that way, sometimes.)

Were you able to stop using Adobe software any anytime before they got in trouble for making cancelling so hard?

> Were you able to stop using Adobe software any anytime before they got in trouble for making cancelling so hard?

To be fair, "stop using" does not automatically imply "stop paying for a subscription".

I doubt it is odd, I suspect almost every ToS has something similar.

I really hope so. Now I must peruse all ToS that I have agreed in the past to ensure that they have an equivalent clause. I hope I'm not contractually obliged to keep using some random website or whatever for the rest of my life.