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Hate 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.
Worse than CoPilot is the new Notepad. Can close the program without saving the file, open it again and it is still there! WTF?
It's not that long ago that there was all the hullabaloo about Notepad being updated for the first time in years, to support Unix line endings. Now it has been replaced wholesale with a slow app that crashes.
Surely we can do this MSFT???? The most basic AI help please, thank you.
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That's an excellent reason, to be sure. But here we're talking about an app to "just write", like opening a file and start pounding out an article or something. For someone who wants to do that, on a Mac, and who wants basic formatting and word-processory WYSIWYG-edness, I'd recommend Pages.
For someone who wants that I’d recommend LibreOffice as it does all of that as well.
I understand people who love Apple (or the OSS world) unconditionally and I understand people who hate either, but I find it hard to feel any kind of strong emotion towards Microsoft. Feels like there isn’t a single product person left in the company, no vision, no direction, no soul, no plan, nothing.
I just tried to use Excel for the first time in ages and somehow it has become completely unfit for purpose. Two series of data, one table of 300 cells containing one automatically extrapolated formula that multiplies the value of the cells in the series. A trivial spreadsheet use case that was solved 40 years ago. Changed the values in one series, and the table just... didn't update. Clicked into the cells and the f…
You sure that wasn’t an operator error? Sounds like a pretty basic feature to not have working.
Microsoft just renamed Office to Microsoft 365 Copilot on Windows for everyone - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42751726 - Jan 2025 (47 comments)
You don't have to pay the Microsoft 365 price increase - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42640180 - Jan 2025 (250 comments)
Hate 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 TextEdit all the way. I used to edit a market-leading print magazine with TextEdit. I don’t need layout features, the designers do that in InDesign. I don’t need a grammar checker or AI because I can write.