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Re: Microsoft 365 Copilot's commercial failure

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Post by spwa4 » Mon, Oct 06, 2025, 4:19 PM UTC

wkat4242 wrote: post #146

a_bonobo wrote: post #8

I still think there's a potential niche for 365 Copilot in its boringness. At work (not a tech company), there's an ongoing, slow, 365 rollout. The people who participate in the rollout are not technical in any way, but they all love it because they're not regular ChatGPT/Claude users, either. In a way, the restricted feature-set of Copilot compared to ChatGPT helps them, they're overwhelmed enough by Copilot. IT lov…

> IT loves 365 because it's so risk-averse. No big jumps, no surprises, Umm no, it's the opposite. It's super high-risk right now for us. Microsoft is constantly shifting stuff around leading us to have to constantly change our processes, documentation etc. Often with zero heads-up and often defaults to on. Some incidents: - They suddenly started a "free promotion" with Sharepoint agents. We don't want to offer that…

What about the secondary effects of AI? I mean, now large-scale data gathering on your company simply by recording glasses + having AI transcribe the whole thing is possible. Hell, with modern cell phones you could do it live.

And the first product that lets a cell phone control keyboard and mouse sending camera to ChatGPT, having ChatGPT do all the work is not far off either.

Presumably both of these would violate your ... policies something awful. I should say will violate all your policies, because we both know this is going to happen.

You have no way of preventing both of these from occurring with IT policy.

Re: Microsoft 365 Copilot's commercial failure

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Post by btown » Mon, Oct 06, 2025, 4:53 PM UTC

airstrike wrote: post #92

btown wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> terrible at accessing cells in a spreadsheet from which it's called Are there any companies solving LLM-based interactions with arbitrary messy spreadsheets? Not the nice demo ones with a single consistent table and maybe some charts/PivotTables - the ones with 20 sheets each of which has 3-4 different data tables laid out side by side, which should be linked to each other but likely aren't? I've long thought that…

I am doing exactly this. In stealth, launching soon

Best of luck! Feel free to ping me, email in bio if you ever want to chat.

Re: Microsoft 365 Copilot's commercial failure

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Post by wkat4242 » Mon, Oct 06, 2025, 8:54 PM UTC

spwa4 wrote: post #171

wkat4242 wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> IT loves 365 because it's so risk-averse. No big jumps, no surprises, Umm no, it's the opposite. It's super high-risk right now for us. Microsoft is constantly shifting stuff around leading us to have to constantly change our processes, documentation etc. Often with zero heads-up and often defaults to on. Some incidents: - They suddenly started a "free promotion" with Sharepoint agents. We don't want to offer that…

What about the secondary effects of AI? I mean, now large-scale data gathering on your company simply by recording glasses + having AI transcribe the whole thing is possible. Hell, with modern cell phones you could do it live. And the first product that lets a cell phone control keyboard and mouse sending camera to ChatGPT, having ChatGPT do all the work is not far off either. Presumably both of these would violate y…

Well to be fair we are already handing all our data to Microsoft on a silver platter since we moved everything to M365. So it's not like they didn't have it all before.