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.
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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.
I've been tasked with getting more copilot automation integrated at my job. After a bunch of research on security, governance, app Lifecycle, and the complexities to get that setup properly, I brought pages of notes to the manager in charge. I expressed how expensive it is, how the product is awful out of the box, and how we don't have any defined use cases. She asked me if it's so complicated and expensive, how are other companies doing it. I told her I don't think there are many companies that have really gone in on agentic. I think 99% of use cases is people using copilot as a search engine. I'm going to be sharing this article even if it's filled with bias.
This makes me happy!
Yes 🖕 you and 🖕 your AI integrations, Microsoft.
They should add it to TVs with no way to disable it and no consent
- But what if we FORCE them to use it??
The problem is that it's a truly shitty implementation because it can't actually do anything. It will tell you how to do things, but it won't actually do a task you would think it's suited for.
It always seems to me like Microsoft makes many of its own problems.
This is the way. Tell ‘em where to stick it.
It kind of reminds me of some kinds of Christians that believe people will convert if they just tell people about Jesus. As if we've never heard of Jesus and the Bible before. We know. We just don't believe.
"Build it and they will come" indeed.
I want a local only AI where my research about breast size doesn't end up in the wrong hands.
When copilot was added to my work computer and we got a big email announcement I wanted to see what it would say about some pointed questions about our industry, but in the end I gave up because it failed to even work enough to see what weird shit it would say
At least this time around they scaled back instead of doubling down on marketing.
Progress???