The shocking thing about this article is that people still give Microsoft money for software
The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a disaster
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Re: The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a disaster
#292Is 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.
Product pages on Amazon now have AI review summaries.
I like it in theory, but the cynical part of me is suspicious they're somehow using it to skew things positive.
Re: The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a disaster
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Just not as natively, quickly, or ergonomically.
No idea how that’s true, there is nothing Pages does differently when it comes to opening a file and “just writing” that LibreOffice doesn’t do. If you honestly get hung up that LibreOffice doesn’t look like it was developed by Apple within the last 5 years then you are always being disingenuous when comparing the software in the first place.
> If you honestly get hung up that LibreOffice doesn’t look like it was developed by Apple within the last 5 years then you are ultimately being disingenuous
Disingenuous? More like realistic.
I mean this ultimately boils down to “is inconsistent with the design of the rest of the computing experience.” People who care about good, consistent design and can afford to pay for it are Apple’s core market.
Re: The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a disaster
#294Microsoft making questionable decisions lately, the official RDP client on Mac was renamed to "Windows App" some weeks ago. It's hard to come up with a worse name, Windows App is what I name any software product that runs natively on Windows.
RIP all the helpdesk employees who have to explain this to end users
Re: The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a disaster
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#296Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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."
> I write books and print them out to edit with red pen. Need all of Word's print features.
The latter really doesn't follow from the former. All? Sounds like you need basic printing..
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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.
Your comma after features should be a semicolon, but I’m sure you knew that!
No, it needn't be.
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I think these things have potential to improve over time. If nothing else I do like being able to get a relative quick explanation for how to change some obscure or minute functionality in the Windows OS. Now, would it be better if the Win OS, by default wasn't obnoxiously in the way with the pretense of being "simpler"? Yes! At least there are some truly free OS's out there that keep the interface consistent through…
So release them when they work, if ever. Do not release a broken thing and then go “you must use this, in case it is one day non-shit”.
Maybe they want to collect data on people using copilot in order to train copilot to be better?
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#299Hate 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.
You will own nothing and like it.
Sadly, switching is the only form of protest we can do against such actions.
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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
At least it would generate all kinds of memes and conspiracy. Much more entertaining and productive then Copilot.