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Re:Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with acc... by jscyc on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @02:09AM (#45962233)
I opened my outlook android app today to find they'd replaced the archive button in the bottom toolbar with a "Summary by Copilot" one. It wasn't enough that the only colourful button is the Copilot one on the right.

Thankfully they still let you reorder the buttons, so I moved archive back and hid that unwanted summary in the overflow menu.

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Re:Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with acc... by RobotToaster on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @02:54AM (#45962469)
Once your coworkers start using copilot to turn what should be a single sentence email into six paragraphs, you'll need that to summarise it into a sentence.

Progress!

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Re:Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with acc... by wiseowise on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @03:37AM (#45962769)
Yeah, but it will be very polite and full of corpospeak, which means that it is very insightful.
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Re:Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with acc... by everdrive on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @06:13AM (#45963680)
>Thankfully they still let you

They "let" you do fewer and fewer things with the computer you "own" every year.

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