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Microsoft announces Scout, an autonomous AI agent built on OpenClaw

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Microsoft announces Scout, an autonomous AI agent built on OpenClaw

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https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2026/06/0...

https://www.404media.co/microsoft-wants-to-make-people-addic...

https://www.wired.com/story/meet-microsoft-scout-your-ai-cow... (https://web.archive.org/web/20260602180553/https://www.wired...)

Microsoft announces Scout, an autonomous AI agent built on OpenClaw
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Microsoft is still going to win because they are the no risk option for many businesses but wow I might actually be embarrassed to be part of these efforts. I hate to use such hyperbolic language too but they have continued year over year for the past 3 years failed to deliver in AI. From the useless frameworks they have been building on the Azure side, the partnership with Anthropic where they are still building copilot to be uniquely their own (and confusing) and now this. It is extremely interesting to watch this unfold!

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Mark Zuckerberg has thrown how much into AI and Microsoft is passing them by as if they don't even exist. You know that meme about how IE is the browser eating paste, while Firefox and Chrome fight it out... Meta AI is the "kid" eating paste, while Google, Anthropic, OpenAI and Microsoft duke it out.

Edit for those curious:

https://devhumor.com/content/uploads/images/August2016/Chrom...

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I'm sorry, did OpenClaw improve by orders of magnitude in the last couple of months? Maybe so because it was an absolute dumpster fire when I looked at it, you could taste the "vibe" it was so poorly put together, I can't imagine anyone respectable building on top of it, better to just steal the compelling ideas (agent with a cron wrapper)

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post #2

Microsoft is still going to win because they are the no risk option for many businesses but wow I might actually be embarrassed to be part of these efforts. I hate to use such hyperbolic language too but they have continued year over year for the past 3 years failed to deliver in AI. From the useless frameworks they have been building on the Azure side, the partnership with Anthropic where they are still building cop…

How's your IBM mainframe doing, these days? Wait, you use Watson, right?

IBM still exists. They're the perfect example of how far a corporate behemoth can keep rolling after it effectively dies.

Microsoft is effectively dead.

It's easier and less hassle to use Linux desktop environments than to wrestle with Windows bullshit. Their flagship product is a sad joke, their leadership is flailing for purpose, and their entire corporation is bloated and unable to focus on anything meaningful.

That doesn't mean they'll disappear tomorrow, or in 5 years, or even in 20. They've already lost whatever relevance they had, and will have to fight to get it back. There will be something called Microsoft still churning recognizably Microsoft slop, because they have a lot of money and resources with which to continue flailing.

It's the year of the Linux desktop, and Windows has fallen.

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Mark Zuckerberg has thrown how much into AI and Microsoft is passing them by as if they don't even exist. You know that meme about how IE is the browser eating paste, while Firefox and Chrome fight it out... Meta AI is the "kid" eating paste, while Google, Anthropic, OpenAI and Microsoft duke it out. Edit for those curious: https://devhumor.com/content/uploads/images/August2016/Chrom...

Are they though? Microsoft is still in the eating paste phase of their journey. Copilot was a huge flop.
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