Microsoft Office 365

Microsoft Copilot (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)

In the current version of Office 365, the default option for Microsoft Copilot is turned on. You can turn it off in the Office applications' options.

Storing Files locally (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)

Since the intruduction of Office 365, saving files locally gets more and more difficuld to execute. Back in the days of Office 201X, you'd get the expected saving dialog with a pop-up to browse your computer and choose your file storage location. This is now multiple clicks away and it's easier to store something on OneDrive since Microsoft likes to push you to use its' cloud service.

To midigate this somewhat, you can go into options -> saving and there set the check mark on "save locally as default". It still takes multiple clicks to save a file, but the cloud options are at least a bit less intrusive.

Outlook 365

Issues with email adresses that stem from Microsoft

In the current version of Outlook (and for about 1 year now), *@hotmail.com adresses cannot simply be added to your existing outlook configuration. It will sync once and then pop up a dialog asking you to sign into microsoft for "authentification". If you don't allow this sign-in, the synchronization will not work claiming an authentification problem. It is obvious however that microsoft just wants to link your (other) mail adresses (that originated from microsoft) to your account to collect more data. This is especially sneaky because at no point you're made aware that this has nothing to do with your mail account but simply with microsoft wanting to link your accounts.