Microsoft still hasn’t figured out desktop search. Of course o365 Copilot is a disaster.
The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a disaster
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Re: The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a disaster
#362Hate 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.
Apple lets their design team make all the critical product decisions, while Microsoft delegates the same responsibility to marketing.
Re: The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a disaster
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That researcher probably wouldn't have an army of SWEs at his or her disposal but be out of a job like the SWEs. If they get AI to a point where it can be a safe and competent senior SWE, it'll be able to fill a huge breadth of other roles as well. Human creativity isn't looking like quite the moat it was supposed to be. Our societies are not in any way equipped to deal with putting what may well be a sizable majorit…
Question I have is if no one has any job because it’s been replaced by AI, what happens to the economy?
essentially it would be the end of employment and return to feudalism
likely followed by either a French Revolution (if lucky) or a Russian Revolution (if not)
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>next to an animated paperclip instead. Now that would be kinda funny, Clippy powered by modern AI
Well, Copilot is an anagram of "Clip too", which is sort of like Clippy 2.0, or Clippy Too. Microsoft's really missing a trick here!
I'm 85% confident that a paperclip maximizer scenario will include Clippy in a way or another.
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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 usua…
> 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.
The real story nobody is saying out loud is that CEOs are much more replaceable by AI than are software engineers.
Re: The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a disaster
#366Cancelled 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?
CJS CD Keys. I used them before years ago for Visio 2019 and windows 10 pro. Both still purring away nicely
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>> Office 2024 Professional Plus from a key reseller for £20 Is this key authentic? Which reseller is this?
What is a good way to check to ensure we are not being handed a key that will get revoked Even in our markets, we have office licenses available on Amazon for all prices ...the cheapest ones looking very suspect but not so sure about the ones that cost a decent amount.
Way beyond my skills to say. I just use a reseller who’s been around for years and has decent trust pilot reviews. I wouldn’t use Amazon though!
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Question I have is if no one has any job because it’s been replaced by AI, what happens to the economy?
essentially it would be the end of employment and return to feudalism likely followed by either a French Revolution (if lucky) or a Russian Revolution (if not)
Of what use are the peasants in an AI driven and dominated feudal society, though. Maybe us peasants be useful in wars or battles between the different lords, but this would also probably be performed by automated drones and robots.
It would seem that the Lord‘s will have nothing to Lord over though. Who’s gonna buy their crap and for what reason will they they create anything? The whole thing seems like a massive doom spiral.
Re: The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a disaster
#369Re: The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a disaster
#370I 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.
Do you suspect that their plan to use Windows 11 to force everybody onto hardware with a TPM is the result of:
> no vision, no direction, no soul, no plan, nothing
Based on their increasingly user-hostile decisions up to this point (re: tricking people into using edge, ads in the start menu, etc) it's pretty clear that the name of the game is to monetize their privileged position as OS vendor by selling their users out to the highest bidder.
I expect they want TPMs everywhere so that they can abuse the passkey protocol's "attestation statement" to include attestations to advertisers about the user themselves, rather than about the auth circumstances (which is what that field is for). Being able to expose details about the human on the other side of an otherwise anonymous browser session is big money for advertisers, and if everybody has a TPM Microsoft can cryptographically exclude competitors from that channel (they no longer have to care if you're using chrome instead of edge). As for the AI everywhere, that's how they'll get to know you so that there's something to sell.
They've got a lot of thought going into their product, it's just that none of that thought is for the benefit of their users. Which is why I heartily disagree with:
> I find it hard to feel any kind of strong emotion towards Microsoft