Microsoft Company reportedthat the Copilot AI assistant was mistakenly added to Windows Server along with recent Edge updates. The developers assured that the application did not collect or transmit data to the company’s servers.
Let us recall that the company began testing Copilot in preliminary builds of Windows Server 2025 at the beginning of this year. However, faced with a negative reaction from administrators, Microsoft has removed Copilot from these assemblies and never returned to this issue.
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However, this week the administrators They were surprisedagain finding the 8KB Microsoft Copilot app added to the list of installed programs in production builds of Windows Server 2022.
As the company has now reported, Copilot penetrated Windows Server by mistake. The issue also affected systems running Windows 10 22H2, Windows 11 21H2 and later.
“The Edge browser update version 123.0.2420.65 released on March 28, 2024 may erroneously install a new package (MSIX) called Microsoft chat provider for Copilot in Windows on Windows devices. As a result, the Microsoft Copilot application may appear in the list of installed applications in the Settings menu,” the company explains.
Microsoft emphasizes that the Copilot app added by Edge to devices cannot actually be used to run Copilot and does not collect any user or system data.
“It is important to note that the Microsoft chat provider for Copilot in Windows does not run any code or processes, and does not receive, analyze, or transmit device or environment data in any way,” Microsoft explains.
According to the company, the package is intended solely to prepare certain Windows devices for the future inclusion of Windows Copilot, and will not appear on all devices. Moreover, even if the installed component causes Copilot to appear as installed on the system, it will not fully install or activate Copilot.
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“As part of the resolution to this issue, Microsoft chat provider for Copilot in Windows will be removed from devices that should not have Microsoft Copilot enabled or installed. This includes most Windows Server devices. We are working to resolve this issue and will provide a fix in the next release of Microsoft Edge,” the company assured.