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They could have saved so much time, money, and reputation if they had just listened when absolutely everyone told them to fuck right off with that "AI" bullshit. No one wants it, no one needs it, no one likes it. On the other hand the healthy bump in linux market share is a nice trend I hope to see continue.
They could have even just put AI code/options in, and left it opt-in, so that people that wanted to use it could and those of us who don't wouldn't have to constantly fight it. Instead they forced it on all of us, and even had the gall to raise the price of office claiming that is because AI is in there. They create the perfect one-two punch for us all to hate it, even those that may have been just neutral before
My favourite part about the price of Office going up is that there is an option to NOT have AI and pay the old price, but they didn’t tell anyone about that, and just jacked up the price.
In Australia they got caught and had to send out an email to give everyone the option to switch back and receive a refund.
In what feels like their last petty act of revenge, that refund was made in seperate ~$5AUD ($3.30USD) payments for every month that they had lied to their customers. Like a disgruntled guy paying his parking ticket in pennies. I received a dozen identical miniscule payments in one day, and could feel the unsaid “fuck you” from MS. The sentiment is mutual.