Anticompetitive bundling. We need new laws to protect fair competition.
Like including only Internet Explorer in your OS? :)
You can't turn off Copilot in the web versions of Word, Excel, or PowerPoint
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Re: You can't turn off Copilot in the web versions of Word, Excel, or PowerPoint
#22Anticompetitive bundling. We need new laws to protect fair competition.
We already have that
Re: You can't turn off Copilot in the web versions of Word, Excel, or PowerPoint
#23It really does seem like Microsoft is intentionally making the lives of their users difficult, like they're trying to win some sort of malevolent contest.
they're competing for investor money by trying to shout "AI" the loudest
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#24Copilot is the most incompetent AI tool I've ever used, which is bizarre since you'd think with the Microsoft/OpenAI partnership they'd make it so that Copilot uses the ChatGPT model.
It's most egregious on Azure, which has a copilot button on every page, and anytime I try to ask it about a precise configuration question for a resource, it NEVER answers correctly. So you have to search on whatever set of microsoft Q&A platforms, stackoverflow questions, and github issues/discussions to maybe find an answer like in the prehistory of 2020.
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#25That's because AIs can't survive by eating their own output. The only solution they know to ward off model collapse is more human input. They need you to use AI to feed the beast. And if it's built into your office apps, they get that data for free.
That's part of why every service and system are getting integrations, It's not for us it's for data harvesting.
In the end that's what "Windows Recall" will be used for. Access to every moment of every user for every app... Can you imagine the training data that would provide? An AI that could run any program ever created.
Re: You can't turn off Copilot in the web versions of Word, Excel, or PowerPoint
#26We should start calling it “the hallucinator” Can you imagine how this is going to look when the first excel hallucinations start cropping up?
To put a more positive spin on it, they should call it “muse”. It generates musings.
Re: You can't turn off Copilot in the web versions of Word, Excel, or PowerPoint
#27Anticompetitive bundling. We need new laws to protect fair competition.
> We need new laws to protect fair competition.
No we don't. We need to enforce the preexisting ones.
Re: You can't turn off Copilot in the web versions of Word, Excel, or PowerPoint
#28I used to go to office.com to use web versions of Word, Excel, Powerpoint.
Imagine my pleasant surprise (/s) when recently I went there, and the icons for these apps had vanished. Instead there was a giant gaping textbox for Copilot. A minute or so of staring at it, and I noticed a "Create" link on the left. That led to a page that invited me to do various things (e.g. "create a presentation", presumably with the web version of PowerPoint). The icons were still missing though.
Also notable: My work-issued Windows computer has Copilot, and Copilot 365. I have no idea which does what, and what's the difference between the two.
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#29I switched entirely to Libreoffice a few years ago and am still waiting to slam into that "this feature is only found in real MS Office" wall that everybody told me was coming. I don't think I'm going to switch back over OneDrive or Copilot integration.
Im still waiting as well. And while I’ve found it to be infuriating at times it is still better than „the real“ Office for everything I do.
Re: You can't turn off Copilot in the web versions of Word, Excel, or PowerPoint
#30Copilot is the most incompetent AI tool I've ever used, which is bizarre since you'd think with the Microsoft/OpenAI partnership they'd make it so that Copilot uses the ChatGPT model. It's most egregious on Azure, which has a copilot button on every page, and anytime I try to ask it about a precise configuration question for a resource, it NEVER answers correctly. So you have to search on whatever set of microsoft Q&…
Azure copilot is really something. It can't see the context of the page it's embedded in, and the message you send is limited to 500 characters, so good luck pasting a log or configuration.