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Microsoft just renamed Office to Microsoft 365 Copilot on Windows for everyone

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Re: Microsoft just renamed Office to Microsoft 365 Copilot on Windows for everyone

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Post by smt88 »

3836293648 wrote: post #17
smt88 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hundreds of millions of people are required by their employer to use Windows

Milions of soldiers are required by their employer to shoot and kill people. That their employer said so doesn't make it moral or ok. Using Windows is always wrong. Using Chrome is always wrong.

It's childish, privileged, and detached from reality to tell people to quit literally their entire career to avoid using Windows or Chrome. There are industries (not just single companies) that use Windows.

The degree of moral purity is only possible for people who are already rich or willing to be a burden on the rest of society by being unemployed.

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Post by vo2maxer »

3836293648 wrote: post #17
smt88 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hundreds of millions of people are required by their employer to use Windows

Milions of soldiers are required by their employer to shoot and kill people. That their employer said so doesn't make it moral or ok. Using Windows is always wrong. Using Chrome is always wrong.

How are these claims any different than saying: Buying groceries in any supermarket chain is always wrong; buying an automobile from any of the large car makers is always wrong?

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Post by rendaw »

yencabulator wrote: post #16

Also good to remember that Microsoft Copilot is not Github Copilot even if Microsoft now runs Github. And then there's apparently Microsoft Copilot in Azure, which is a devops tool. Clear as mud! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Copilot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitHub_Copilot https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/copilot

Oh wow, I wish they'd adopt that strategy to clarify the mess that is .net, .net framework, .net core, .net standard, and .net.

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Post by yapyap »

vo2maxer wrote: post #23

I’m trying to understand why the sentiment in many of the comments is one of near outrage. Is this based on the atavistic hatred of Microsoft or is there a cogent position on why this is a noxious implementation?

Cause they’re moving forward with forcing their AI slop down every Windows users’ throats

Re: Microsoft just renamed Office to Microsoft 365 Copilot on Windows for everyone

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Post by tomnipotent »

fckmsft32 wrote: post #15
Havoc wrote: post #13

Well excel is going to continue to excel. ...everything else in office is in danger of getting AI crammed into it diagonally whether it needs it or not.

The competency crisis will also affect Excel down the line, just like it's affecting Boeing spaceships and planes and everything else the new demographics touch.

People only use Word or PowerPoint to do a small part in a larger job.

Many people live in Excel and spend much of their day-to-day in it. When Microsoft introduced the ribbon, it was the Excel crowd that was, by far, the loudest and most vocal. Excel has the Microsoft Excel World Championship, a legitimate Esport.

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