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Cancelled immediately after getting the email. I bought a pair of Office 2024 Professional Plus from a key reseller for £20 each for myself and my wife within the hour
Is this key authentic? Which reseller is this?
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> 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.
I am old school. I write books and print them out to edit with red pen. Need all of Word's print features. Not everyone is a "digital writer."
https://gizmodo.com/sci-fi-writer-releases-free-archive-of-l...
https://joe-editor.sourceforge.io/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%27s_Own_Editor
Edit: I once used WordStar 4 with a daisywheel printer.
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>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 t…
Microsoft is trying to stay relevant and have an answer to Wall St analysis asking them questions about their AI strategy. They will delete AI tools and helpers as soon as the industry goes after another "big idea".
I'm glad my web-only 365 (business basic without teams, can't use the family plan because I need a personal domain) just renewed for a year so they can't mess with mine.
The crazy part to me is that, with a family subscription, the new AI privileges are only available to the primary account holder and not the rest of my family. That’s nuts. > For Microsoft 365 Family subscribers, Copilot will be available to the subscription owner and cannot be shared with others. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2025/01/1...
Cancelled immediately after getting the email. I bought a pair of Office 2024 Professional Plus from a key reseller for £20 each for myself and my wife within the hour
The crazy part to me is that, with a family subscription, the new AI privileges are only available to the primary account holder and not the rest of my family. That’s nuts. > For Microsoft 365 Family subscribers, Copilot will be available to the subscription owner and cannot be shared with others. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2025/01/1...
Maybe they are at least trying to avoid collecting data of underage people...
Is there a single big company out there that sanely has not decided to ride this "AI" wave? People being pushed stupid features that no one has ever needed nor asked for? It's Clippy's revenge and you can't get rid of it this time? Microsoft really deserves ton of prizes for ruining so many products.
amazon? I mean they have some data center stuff, but amazon-the-website does not seem infected with artificial idiocy yet.
Is there a single big company out there that sanely has not decided to ride this "AI" wave? People being pushed stupid features that no one has ever needed nor asked for? It's Clippy's revenge and you can't get rid of it this time? Microsoft really deserves ton of prizes for ruining so many products.
amazon? I mean they have some data center stuff, but amazon-the-website does not seem infected with artificial idiocy yet.
This 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.
At work, everything is Microsoft, Copilot 365 and everything. Gives me a headache using it. And a chuckle seeing IT struggle with disgruntled users…