Microsoft Bolted AI Onto Everything, Then Sheepishly Ripped It Out

For months Microsoft jammed Copilot into every crevice of Windows, from Notepad to Photos to the Snipping Tool to the goddamn weather widget, until users started calling the whole operating system Microslop to its corporate face. The Windows chief now vows to be “more intentional about how and where Copilot integrates across Windows,” which is fluent corporate for please stop screaming at us in the reviews. Sustained public fury, it turns out, still works on the biggest software company alive, and your f*ucking AI just learned its very first boundary. TechCrunch on Microsoft’s Copilot walk-back.