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Office features haven't increased in value since Office 2000. It's been 99% bugfixes, 1% feature evolution since then.
they even broke the Save dialog in an attempt to push their onedrive garbage
what used to take 1 click now takes 3-4
I'm just waiting for the AI hype bubble to pop.
Office features haven't increased in value since Office 2000. It's been 99% bugfixes, 1% feature evolution since then.
30% devolution they even broke the Save dialog in an attempt to push their onedrive garbage what used to take 1 click now takes 3-4
(note: desktop Excel 2016)
There's an "Export" section in the awkward full-window UI that they replaced the File menu with, but instead of exporting it's just another way around to add extra clicks (File -> Export -> Change File Type -> CSV -> Save As) and get to the same "Save As" dialog that makes the CSV file take over your window as the active file after you "export" it.
You can also get to that via Save As -> Browse and pick CSV in the "save as type" dropdown, which behaves how you expect Save As to work (where that copy should stay active in the window afterward, as opposed to Export where it shouldn't). But this spot is also stupid because now have to go File -> Save As -> Browse because somebody at Microsoft wanted to insert an extra page where they could default your location to OneDrive and make you click Browse to get a normal file browser.
I saw an article yesterday about how Microsoft is moving toward "user-centric design" and removing ads from Skype, but how about doing that in the products anybody gives a shit about?
Whattttttt? Impossible. Surely the AI must have been adding value. A big company wouldn't just look to shove AI into something because it's trendy and fool themselves into thinking that customers would pay them for it, would they? Also, why are we linking to some forum and not the articles?
I really want 365 or gemini to do the obvious thing: "Using this template, summarize this document into a slide deck." Maybe it won't be good, but it's surprising to me it can't do it barebones. Considering LLMs do an okay at summarizing into markdown, maybe the issue is a lack of proper intermediate DSL to represent slides it can train on? But autogenerating at least a scaffolding for a deck seems so obvious, it's p…
All my documents - Word, PowerPoint, OneNote, Excel - are all on OneDrive. Give me an NLP interface to query information from these sources. When providing the information, note the source where it came from. That's what I want!
I'd love the R part of RAG, but Microsoft can't even do that it appears?
I really want 365 or gemini to do the obvious thing: "Using this template, summarize this document into a slide deck." Maybe it won't be good, but it's surprising to me it can't do it barebones. Considering LLMs do an okay at summarizing into markdown, maybe the issue is a lack of proper intermediate DSL to represent slides it can train on? But autogenerating at least a scaffolding for a deck seems so obvious, it's p…
We now have so much information that the effort needed to take this step is so obnoxious that need an abstract organization system to exist on top of it.
I wonder if the scaling properties here just serve to highlight the deeper organizational problem that we still haven't solved properly yet.
Office features haven't increased in value since Office 2000. It's been 99% bugfixes, 1% feature evolution since then.
PowerQuery and the Data Model have more in common with python than the Excel of old
I really want 365 or gemini to do the obvious thing: "Using this template, summarize this document into a slide deck." Maybe it won't be good, but it's surprising to me it can't do it barebones. Considering LLMs do an okay at summarizing into markdown, maybe the issue is a lack of proper intermediate DSL to represent slides it can train on? But autogenerating at least a scaffolding for a deck seems so obvious, it's p…
Yet, here we are.