lucky block doesn’t work with Entra ID accounts, so Microsoft now has some curious advice for managed organizations. Welcome to Bizarro World. Sign up for our new free newsletter to get three time-saving tips each Friday — get free copies of Paul Thurrott's Windows 11 and Windows 10 Field Guides (normally $9.99) as a special welcome gift! “The Copilot key was originally intended to invoke Copilot in Windows, [but] this has shifted as we’ve evolved Microsoft Copilot experiences on Windows to better address your feedback and needs,” . “As we’ve previously shared, Copilot in Windows has been removed, and the Microsoft Copilot app is now only available to consumer users authenticating with a Microsoft account. It will not work for commercial users authenticating with a Microsoft Entra account.” . It’s appeared on most new PCs from major PC makers ever since, and pressing it has always launched the Copilot app that Microsoft bundles with Windows 11. But the Copilot experience in Windows has changed multiple times this past year. In November, . And then it announced that’s now making its way through the Insider Program. And this version of the app is only for consumers. It doesn’t work with Entra ID accounts. . And, yes, it’s all about security. “The Copilot experience on Windows is changing to enhance data security, privacy, compliance, and simplify the user experience, for users signed in with a Microsoft Entra work or school account,” it reads. “Microsoft Copilot will offer enterprise data protection at no additional cost and redirect users to a new simplified interface designed for work and education.” That’s good, of course: (EDP) secures customer data with encryption, protects against AI security risks, and provides access controls via IT policies. But it also means that IT pros will have some work to do if they’ve rolled out PCs in which Copilot in Windows 11 is enabled. Microsoft recommends that organizations remap the Copilot PC on new PCs to open the Microsoft 365 app because it can authenticate against Entra ID and provides access to Copilot capabilities. It also recommends pinning that app to the Windows 11 Taskbar if it was removed previously. Furthermore, it also recommends that organizations the Copilot app that comes with Windows 11 to avoid confusion and to use AppLocker to prevent employees from reinstalling it later. If an organization explicitly disables Copilot to begin with, they’re all set. The new Copilot app will never work, and the Copilot key, if present, will simply run Search as before. What a mess. Paul Thurrott is an award-winning technology journalist and blogger with 30 years of industry experience and the author of 30 books. He is the owner of and the host of three tech podcasts: with Leo Laporte and Richard Campbell, , and with Brad Sams. He was formerly the senior technology analyst at Windows IT Pro and the creator of the SuperSite for Windows from 1999 to 2014 and the Major Domo of Thurrott.com while at BWW Media Group from 2015 to 2023. You can reach Paul via , or . Join the crowd where the love of tech is real - become a Thurrott Premium Member today! Sign up for our new free newsletter to get three time-saving tips each Friday

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Lately, when I find myself feeling a little too calm about things, I’ve taken to reading the Reddit subreddit r/singularity to help swing my equilibrium back to its natural state of intense panic. This is a place where activity has flourished in recent months, as community members feverishly discuss the day’s ever-increasing developments in artificial intelligence and casually argue about the date they expect computers to officially exceed all human control. “AGI by the end of 2025” predicted a top ranking post on the subreddit this week, referencing the stage of singularity when “artificial general intelligence” – the point at which computers can perform any intellectual task that a human can – is reached. The excitement was caused by OpenAI’s announcement that its o3 system can now reason through maths, science and computer programming problems, which are three things I definitely can’t do. We had the chance to give computers less control, and instead we gave them more. Credit: iStock It got me thinking: we should have just let the Y2K bug win, hey? There we were, exactly 25 years ago, gifted with a date glitch that would’ve sent us warmly back to the 1900s, when life was simple and butter was churned in the backyard. But instead we panicked, worried that nuclear plants would melt down, planes would fall out of the sky, ATMs would erase all our savings, and like Bill Pullman in Independence Day we chose to fight. Now, 25 years on and with robot overlords breathing down our necks, it feels like a fork-in-the-road moment where we Robert Frosted the wrong way. We had the chance to give computers less control, and instead we gave them more. Dummy move! Perhaps because I’d just turned legal drinking age, or perhaps because I was watching Buffy religiously instead of following the news, I don’t remember feeling too concerned about the Y2K bug. What did I care if computers thought it was 1900 instead of 2000? Life across those 100 years wasn’t that different. In 1999, I still walked everywhere; I still did school exams in pencil; I still developed 35mm film negatives for my day job like Thomas Edison in his laboratory. Computers might’ve been around, but they weren’t such a part of our lives as they are now. I’d go whole days without touching one sometimes, except to play Grim Fandango . We were so close, as this archival shot from the film Time Bomb Y2K shows. Not to get all John Lennon, but imagine there were no computers. I wouldn’t miss them. I’d be sitting by a river bank right now, writing this column in salmon blood with my index finger. We’d all be so close to nature we could taste it, like the kid from Into the Wild . Maybe we’d die eating berries, but we’d live eating berries, too. If computers had died in 1999, we wouldn’t have social media either, the worst experiment in humankind since lobotomies. Instead we’d just have polite conversation with whoever was in our vicinity and/or crushing loneliness, both preferable options.Is a 10x Rally in Sight for Litecoin or BONK? Crypto Analysts Discuss