Ripping you off Stage 3
Copilot is a capable assistant, but its reach comes from defaults: it is pinned into Windows, Edge and Office rather than chosen. Microsoft set the Microsoft 365 Copilot app to install automatically on Windows PCs (2025), and an LG TV update added a Copilot tile owners could not delete (2025). One extraction criterion plus gatekeeper lock-in. Stage 3.
- Since
- 2023
- Category
- AI
- VC-backed
- No
- Public
- Since 1986 (NASDAQ: MSFT)
- Website
- copilot.microsoft.com
- X
- @Copilot
The promise
Its first promise, and how much is kept · Scoring
80% kept
“your everyday AI companion”
Why it’s rated 3
The criteria it meets, with sources · Method
- Alignment 0 of 3
- None
- Lock-in 1 of 4
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- L4 Gatekeeper or default
- Extraction 1 of 7
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- E7 Worse defaults Sep 16, 2025 Dec 15, 2025
- Decline 0 of 3
- None
Result Two or more extraction criteria, or lock-in plus at least one, so stage 3.
News signals
Sourced reporting, tagged by strategy
Dec 15, 2025
Sep 16, 2025