When CoPilot showed up in my Word, I was writing a pitch doc that asked me to also describe whether I was using GenAI for anything for this pitch. It made me realize I didn’t know whether this doc was getting auto-pushed to CoPilot and would be used for training in some way. Dislike.
The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a disaster
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Re: The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a disaster
#22Worse than CoPilot is the new Notepad.
Can close the program without saving the file, open it again and it is still there! WTF?
Re: The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a disaster
#23I don't think Microsoft has created a single novel or useful thing in the last 30 years, with the exception of vscode.
Windows 2000 was pretty revolutionary
Re: The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a disaster
#24This is why, short of real financial hardship, I will never work again at a company where I need to rely on Microsoft products.
Have to use Windows as an OS? No thanks. Microsoft Teams as core employee platform? Nope.
I get it’s not a choice for many.
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#25But what consequences will a really large company face for such a prominent disaster? They got what they wanted, which is an excuse to force everyone into paying for new AI products through price increases forced into enterprise contract renewals. It is the same thing that Google just did with Google Workspace or Google Apps or whatever their office suite is called now, where everyone is forced to pay for their new G…
We did an enterprise license renewal with them last summer. They offered and we accepted a purchase of a large block of m364 license in exchange for a substantial discount in the overall price. Worked for us, worked for them, so no complaints there. We are measuring engagement and time-savings per user and we are doing pretty good on the engagement side while time savings side is barely breaking even (comparing the p…
Is m364 the same as m365 but without AI? What is the SKU?
Re: The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a disaster
#26Is this the absolute death of the high school essay? Even if you didn't want to cheat by avoiding ChatGPT, AI is now right there, in your word processor, and you have no way of turning it off.
We will solve the cheating problem with more AI, all essays will need to be written in 3 hour time windows in web portals with key-logging + copilot off and children on webcam the entire time. An AI will assess all the data and tell you if the child cheated or not.
Of course no one will care if you're good at writing essays in the future, and having that skill just means you're working a low paying training data creation job, but we will carry on pretending otherwise for a few years.
Re: The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a disaster
#27For those just skimming the article and who haven't heard, as an existing subscriber to Microsoft 365, you can switch to the Classic variant without AI and without the price increase, by clicking on "Cancel subscription" on your account page and selecting Classic.
...at least for now...
Re: The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a disaster
#28Hate that if you use Word for Mac, you now have Copilot next to your cursor with no way of turning it off. I just want to use Word. I like its print layout features better than Pages. I don't want to switch. Just let me write and leave me alone. Now they're jamming AI down my throat without any opt-out mechanism.
>Just let me write and leave me alone.
Yeah, we have networked supercomputers in every pocket and on every desk. And word processors and spreadsheets have been around for decades---that use case is a solved problem.
I suppose we can be charitable to Microsoft and say they're trying to innovate, but these AI features lack a clear practical need that they're meeting. It feels more like Big Tech flopping around trying to make the next big thing happen, rather than actually going out into the real world and solving problems actual humans have.
Re: The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a disaster
#29Given how hard Microsoft is leaning into AI, and how important Office 365 is, the Copilot for 365 is shockingly bad.
This change was probably recommended/implemented via AI.
Re: The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a disaster
#30Worse than CoPilot is the new Notepad. Can close the program without saving the file, open it again and it is still there! WTF?
The default editor in Ubuntu, presumably just the default gnome text editor, is the same. I struggled to get rid of a scratchpad of notes once. Really weird and unexpected and I'm sure it gets people in trouble occasionally.