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Microsoft announces Scout, an autonomous AI agent built on OpenClaw

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Re: 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 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 ent…

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

wish i ran a dead company that did 67 billion in revenue last year, with year-over-year increases.

>Microsoft is effectively dead.

damn, and this dead company did 280 billion in revenue last year.

(you have a ~unique~ definition of dead.)

Re: Microsoft announces Scout, an autonomous AI agent built on OpenClaw

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Neat! I have plenty of time to read these Microsoft announcements today because Microsoft 365 exchange online is borked and my emails aren’t going out and teams in browser is jank-city.

Easy solve! Have Scout hammer the page every two minutes and send you an email, text and Amber Alert when it’s back up! Welcome to Hell ™

Re: Microsoft announces Scout, an autonomous AI agent built on OpenClaw

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you ask it its name, it replies "Microsoft Copilot Scout Enterprise Platform 360 for .NET (new)"

Can’t tell if a joke or real

It doesn't matter much. It's a joke in both cases anyway.

Re: Microsoft announces Scout, an autonomous AI agent built on OpenClaw

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OpenClaw just seems so broken and insecure by-design. I feel like you'd have to be crazy to use it.

> OpenClaw just seems so broken and insecure by-design. I feel like you'd have to be crazy to use it.

Microsoft is about to introduce a worse and less secure version of OpenClaw to their Enterprise customers. What could go wrong??

Re: Microsoft announces Scout, an autonomous AI agent built on OpenClaw

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What did i just read? Microsoft putting their name in total vibe coded slop that breaks every release and super bloated? And coding it is not even that hard

Bust when? It can't be more than a couple of weeks away can it?

Meta ruining it's pristine cybersecurity reputation, and Nadella throwing this buffoonery on the same week.

When the AI market crashes, it will be the first market crisis where employees will be hired en masse rather than fired.

Re: Microsoft announces Scout, an autonomous AI agent built on OpenClaw

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>Microsoft Scout connects to apps such as Teams, Outlook, OneDrive, and SharePoint, and accesses data from chat, email, calendar, and contacts.

There's a running joke that you don't pay some mariachis for singing, you tip them to get them to go away.

In a similar vein, Maybe Microsoft can figure out how to monetize not having to use Windows as a service.

"You don't have to use teams and outlook any longer" is certainly a nice pitch.

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