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Microsoft allows use of personal Microsoft 365 subscriptions at work

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Re: Microsoft allows use of personal Microsoft 365 subscriptions at work

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Post by thewebguyd »

lazystar wrote: post #7

> Samer Baroudi, senior product marketing manager at Microsoft, insists this is for your own good. > > "This offers a safer alternative to other bring-your-own-AI scenarios, and empowers users with Copilot in their daily jobs while keeping IT firmly in control and all enterprise data protections intact," Baroudi explained in a blog post. whew. they seem to be confusing exactly who the customer is here. they think the…

Microsoft enables self service trials and purchases on 365 tenants by default. Every new feature they deploy is on by default. This new personal account thing is also enabled by default.

Microsoft has been hostile to internal IT teams for a long time. They burned that bridge with me and my peers a long time ago. Unfortunately, MS knows it’s a captive audience and enterprises aren’t rushing to exit Microsoft anytime soon so they continue to get away with it.

MS hopes that users will start a trial for something, become reliant on it, then convince managers to override the IT teams and buy it. Just like how other SaaS products market to individual users instead of to IT departments.

It’s scummy.

No one should do business with Microsoft anymore at this point. That includes NPM, GitHub, VSCode too don’t forget. MS will get away with anything they want unless people push back and dump them.

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Post by willis936 »

danudey wrote: post #8

If Copilot was so great, surely I would have been asked to opt-in to a better Office 365 family plan with Copilot enabled, rather than trying to dark-pattern me into paying for a more expensive Copilot-enabled plan against my will (forcing me to attempt to cancel in order to be offered my old plan). It probably doesn't help that Microsoft is using 'Copilot' to mean so many different things - their Office AI integrati…

I cancelled my 365 subscription last night and was surprised to see that I was scheduled to pay $100 next month for an annual subscription tier that adds AI features that I would never use. The most valuable plan they offer is the one they charge the least for.

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Post by watwut »

danudey wrote: post #8

If Copilot was so great, surely I would have been asked to opt-in to a better Office 365 family plan with Copilot enabled, rather than trying to dark-pattern me into paying for a more expensive Copilot-enabled plan against my will (forcing me to attempt to cancel in order to be offered my old plan). It probably doesn't help that Microsoft is using 'Copilot' to mean so many different things - their Office AI integrati…

Microsoft is master of confusing programs, confusing naming and plans. Pretty much everything they produce is royally unclear in its naming.

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Post by jaggederest »

BuyMyBitcoins wrote: post #10
danudey wrote: post #8

If Copilot was so great, surely I would have been asked to opt-in to a better Office 365 family plan with Copilot enabled, rather than trying to dark-pattern me into paying for a more expensive Copilot-enabled plan against my will (forcing me to attempt to cancel in order to be offered my old plan). It probably doesn't help that Microsoft is using 'Copilot' to mean so many different things - their Office AI integrati…

Microsoft will clarify the situation by offering “CoPilot One”.

CoPilot One XS Series X? You really don't want the CoPilot One Series X, it's really a neutered version, and the CoPilot One XS Series S is decent but really doesn't cost any different, unlike the CoPilot XS Series S, which is obsolete.

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Post by zrobotics »

monkeydreams wrote: post #4

This should be a strike against MS's trustworthiness, if true. A lot of workplaces are hesitant to utilise AI models due to privacy or sensitivity concerns.

FTA: "Government tenants (GCC/DoD) for some reason don't support this capability, the one that Baroudi insists "does not create new data exposure risks."

So the government customers that can really strike back at MS don't get this enabled by default. Very interesting...

I would also wonder if this would trigger IT review due to data access patterns. Having copilot start accessing documents would likely trigger certain security systems at many companies that are designed to prevent corporate espionage. It seems like a good possibility anyway, I certainly wouldn't be willing to risk it just so I could generate AI slop emails.

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Post by tsimionescu »

danudey wrote: post #8

If Copilot was so great, surely I would have been asked to opt-in to a better Office 365 family plan with Copilot enabled, rather than trying to dark-pattern me into paying for a more expensive Copilot-enabled plan against my will (forcing me to attempt to cancel in order to be offered my old plan). It probably doesn't help that Microsoft is using 'Copilot' to mean so many different things - their Office AI integrati…

What's this "Office 365" you're mentioning? Microsoft has, I kid you not, actually renamed Office 365 to Microsoft 365 Copilot. Of which Copilot is one part, like Word and Excel. Yes, a Microsoft 365 Copilot subscription gives you access to Microsoft Word and Microsoft Copilot. Please don't confuse it with GitHub Copilot, a completely different product. Or with Copilot Search in Bing.
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