Final week’s March replace for Home windows 11 24H2 was already inflicting issues for customers, however now it seems to be a headache for Microsoft itself… as a result of it’s inadvertently uninstalling the Copilot AI assistant that the corporate has been pushing over the previous few years.
In line with Home windows Newest, an surprising bug has crept into the replace that causes the Copilot app to be uninstalled on some units and unpinned from the taskbar. The issue happens with updates KB5053598 (Home windows 11 24H2) and KB5053602 (Home windows 11 23H2) in addition to KB5053606 (Home windows 10 22H2).
Microsoft has confirmed the bug, up to date the respective launch notes accordingly, and is already engaged on an answer.
What are you able to do?
Till Microsoft fixes the difficulty, you possibly can manually reinstall the Copilot app from the Microsoft Retailer and pin it to the taskbar once more. By the way, Copilot for Microsoft 365 isn’t affected by the bug.
Different issues with the replace
It was beforehand reported that the March replace for Home windows 11 24H2 PCs is riddled with points, with customers getting surprising BSOD errors (Blue Display of Dying), crashing SSDs, and errors with Distant Desktop Protocol (RDP). See extra in our protection of that problematic replace.
Issues with Distant Desktop had been beforehand reported again in October 2024 when Microsoft first launched Home windows 11 24H2. In line with Home windows Newest, this month’s latest replace has in all probability made these issues worse. Microsoft is at the moment investigating.
Additional studying: Find out how to roll again a problematic Home windows replace
This text initially appeared on our sister publication PC-WELT and was translated and localized from German.
