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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. They should put it in the bottom corner, next to an animated paperclip instead.
>next to an animated paperclip instead. Now that would be kinda funny, Clippy powered by modern AI
Microsoft really has to pull itself together in terms of product branding. Microsoft 365 itself was a terrible name for an office suite, but adding a "copilot" at the end is hitting too low a bar. Not sure how it even got an approval in the first place.
Teams is now named “Teams (work and school)”
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.
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Well there is only so much you can do with Word and Outlook. Let's be real the difference between Office 2024 and Office 2019 are largely cosmetic. That stuff stopped being exciting a long time ago.
What about the super exciting new Teams and Outlook!
Teams has popup ads inside the app itself. No, I don't give a bloody damn about whatever stupid new feature you're trying to force upon me when I'm in the middle of a deep conversation with a coworker.
To avoid 365 Copilot you have to downgrade to "Classic": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYVPThx7yss
So I just cancelled outright.
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The MacOS copilot implementation is horrid. Takes up a significant amount of screen space just to offer a summary of the email. Cannot turn off. For whatever reason cannot be a simple button with pop up on click. It’s horrid.
I can't think of an email I have ever received that needed to be summarized? Who is writing these super long emails?
Other LLMs.
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Maybe in terms of being a word processor (i.e. supporting all the layout and editing/proofing features that Word has.) But if, as the GP says, you want a program to “just let you write” (with some "writing-phase" accoutrements like change-tracking, word count, a dynamic Table of Contents, and so forth) — and you want a pleasant experience while writing, that takes advantage of the acceleration of native OS UI element…
You can just write with LibreOffice. Your example of special acceleration for Apple made software is unfounded.
Coming next week, another 8 versions of Teams, all called Teams but with subtly different icons and you can only sign into one of them with your license tier
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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…
There is a setting in excel that disables auto calculation. This is useful for people who are (ab)using excel with massive data sets and crazy calculations. It sounds like this setting may have been on