Every time I’ve opened an Office app this week it has given me some copilot welcome screen and opened it’s own sidebar. I tried to use it to proofread a word doc and got prompted to purchase a license. So they basically just filled 1/3 of my screen with an ad.

My city of only 20k people in Texas has a similar app. Not sure what’s going on in California

I could understand that if they were an overseas company, but they are from the US. That had to be one of the most incompetent customers service reps ever.

I’ve been using Sideload Channel Launcher since they started putting ads on the home screen. It’s a simple clean layout that is easy to set up and get everything you want on it. It even has a icon you can add for power settings.