Has anyone considered that Copilot doesn't need to be good, it just needs to justify collecting your data?
The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a disaster
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Re: The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a disaster
#242Earlier quoted context omitted.
My guess is that the plan will be Office -> Office 365 -> Microsoft 365 -> Microsoft 365 Copilot -> Microsoft Copilot.
Why was it Microsoft 365 in the first place? Does it not work on leap days ?
In 2020 I was disappointed they didn't rename it to Microsoft 366.
Re: The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a disaster
#243A lot of people use Microsofts products out of old habit and because they are simply not aware of any alternatives. I have helped alot of people try LibreOffice, which offers everything they need from their office suit. Most people also like that LibreOffice looks like what Word and Excel looked like before Microsoft changed up the menu system.
For most professionals Excel alone carries 99% of the worth of an O365 subscription. I would give anything for a standalone, offline spreadsheet software as robust and powerful as Excel. Unfortunately, that doesn't exist.
Office still exists as a standalone version.
Re: The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a disaster
#244The 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...
Like my wife in her forties?
Re: The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a disaster
#245Everything at home is OSS, I switched to OSS everywhere in 2000. I love reading these news, gives me a chuckle. At work, everything is Microsoft, Copilot 365 and everything. Gives me a headache using it. And a chuckle seeing IT struggle with disgruntled users…
Same! It blows my mind how much our company spends on this shit. And how oblivious our IT department is to anything non-Windows.
Re: The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a disaster
#246Earlier quoted context omitted.
That was my line of thinking as well. The article pointed out that they rebranded to Office 365, then Microsoft 365 and now Microsoft 365 Copilot. The thing is, no one ever calls it anything but Office, maybe Office 365 if they're being real fancy and specifically want to refer to the subscription service. My take is that Microsoft assumed that everyone is calling it Microsoft 365, which they don't. 30 years of ownin…
Why would shareholders have a problem with it? People with big money currently value AI bullshit more than recognizable branding.
I'm a shareholder and I have a problem with it. It's a bad focus and product strategy over-dosing on AI hype which I think will hurt them in the future.
Re: The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a disaster
#247Cancelled 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
>> Office 2024 Professional Plus from a key reseller for £20 Is this key authentic? Which reseller is this?
These are from volume licenses. Not really legal but it mostly works in practice. In some cases the buyer gets unlucky and the volume key gets revoked due to too many activations, but either the seller will give you a replacement key, or it's just another few bucks for a new key.
Re: The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a disaster
#248Hate 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.
Not only did the megacorp CEO's drop the ball on AI... we've got them gloating over widespread firing of engineers due to AI and then quotes like "I'm good for my $80B" like its his own personal money bag. And now they're force feeding crappy alpha AI products. The egos are well out of hand. And they give this group the name "The Magnificent Seven". WTF have we become. We trust these companies to be stewards of AGI/A…
So much this, when you see Zuck or even Jensen Huang saying "software engineers won't be needed anymore" and being excited about it you get pissed off as a software engineer lol.
I feel like Microsoft's whole thing with Windows 11 has been "just force the users to do what we want them to do, we know better than they do" so it doesn't surprise me that 365 went the same way.
I'm saying this and I'm a person that's usually extremely enthusiastic about new tech, but I'm just burnt out on these companies trying to shove AI down our throats.
Had it been opt-in and gradual, I would be far more optimistic and enthusiastic. I guess my question is "why such a rush?". Even Apple rushed into it with something half-baked and unfinished.
Re: The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a disaster
#249Is it worse than apple intelligence butchering news summaries though?
It's a wash.
Re: The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a disaster
#250Has anyone considered that Copilot doesn't need to be good, it just needs to justify collecting your data?
Yeah, add some fine print and to hell with the end-users!