From the linked blog post it sounds like IT still fully controls permissions to use or not use this. It's just that users can pay for it.
Microsoft allows use of personal Microsoft 365 subscriptions at work
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#22If Copilot was so great, surely I would have been asked to opt-in to a better Office 365 family plan with Copilot enabled, rather than trying to dark-pattern me into paying for a more expensive Copilot-enabled plan against my will (forcing me to attempt to cancel in order to be offered my old plan). It probably doesn't help that Microsoft is using 'Copilot' to mean so many different things - their Office AI integrati…
What's this "Office 365" you're mentioning? Microsoft has, I kid you not, actually renamed Office 365 to Microsoft 365 Copilot. Of which Copilot is one part, like Word and Excel. Yes, a Microsoft 365 Copilot subscription gives you access to Microsoft Word and Microsoft Copilot. Please don't confuse it with GitHub Copilot, a completely different product. Or with Copilot Search in Bing.
Oh my good gravy you weren’t joking.
How long until the brand piñata .NET gets renamed?
Re: Microsoft allows use of personal Microsoft 365 subscriptions at work
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's this "Office 365" you're mentioning? Microsoft has, I kid you not, actually renamed Office 365 to Microsoft 365 Copilot. Of which Copilot is one part, like Word and Excel. Yes, a Microsoft 365 Copilot subscription gives you access to Microsoft Word and Microsoft Copilot. Please don't confuse it with GitHub Copilot, a completely different product. Or with Copilot Search in Bing.
Oh my good gravy you weren’t joking. How long until the brand piñata .NET gets renamed?
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#24Microsoft's logo should be a Banyan tree. They do it so well.
> A banyan [...] develops accessory trunks from adjacent prop roots, allowing the tree to spread outwards indefinitely. [0]
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#25First I thought this was an old Aprils Fools post like the 'bring your gun to work day' posts back in the day. This is going to really make it hard to IT who are trying to enforce their company's contract mandated 'you can't charge AI work as billable work' clauses too. I would expect a push to the survey tool that identified all Microsoft subscription tokens on a person's equipment and narcing on those who do this. It feels like we're in the desperation zone here.
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#26Wait, isn’t this similar to Microsoft+Explorer bundling from eons ago?
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#27This is an awesome move. AI is the largest enabler of stubborn slow companies making the latest models available to their people.
That being said MS copilot is kinda klunky (like the rest of MS's product offerings)
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#28Microsoft's logo should be a Banyan tree. They do it so well. > A banyan [...] develops accessory trunks from adjacent prop roots, allowing the tree to spread outwards indefinitely. [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banyan
Unisys might have something to say about that, they absorbed Banyan Systems[1] in 2003
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's this "Office 365" you're mentioning? Microsoft has, I kid you not, actually renamed Office 365 to Microsoft 365 Copilot. Of which Copilot is one part, like Word and Excel. Yes, a Microsoft 365 Copilot subscription gives you access to Microsoft Word and Microsoft Copilot. Please don't confuse it with GitHub Copilot, a completely different product. Or with Copilot Search in Bing.
Oh my good gravy you weren’t joking. How long until the brand piñata .NET gets renamed?
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#30Wait, isn’t this similar to Microsoft+Explorer bundling from eons ago?
Didn't you get the memo that crime is legal now? Sure, maybe some admin in 2028, might start proceedings against them in 2029, that would be decided against them by ~2035. But you see, _this time_ forced bundling will work!