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“Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server

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Post by zamalek »

quadruple wrote: post #42

What community is there to house around Microsoft Copilot? Seriously, why does Microsoft Copilot need a Discord Server? What do I talk about when I join the Microsoft Copilot server? What are we doing here?

There are communities who gobble up anything Microsoft produces. People in the Microsoft MVP program are usually in this camp - if you want to find examples. Me and my coder friends were part of the fandom, but with just me and my biased N=10 sample set; this fanbase is evaporating quickly (but I still know some hardcore "azure thumpers").

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Post by mikkupikku »

riffraff wrote: post #59
ralferoo wrote: post #20

Hehe, this reminds me of 30 years ago when people used to stylise it as Micro$oft or creatively misspell it as Microshaft, etc. Even on the Amiga, there was the filesystem that could read PC format disks that was called MessyDos. It just seems like the next generation has discovered what an easy name it is to make puns from.

Last week on a comedy show (the daily show) they made a joke about bill gates "micro and soft" which was old in the 90s already, so I can confirm this is the case.

I've always said it was in bad taste for Bill Gates to name the company after his johnson.

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Post by zamalek »

merlindru wrote: post #170
throwaway85825 wrote: post #159

AI valuation is based on vibes not fundamentals. If the vibes are bad it could tank valuations. That's why theyre so sensitive.

but they make the vibes much worse by doing stuff like this

Apparently the number of people familiar with the Streisand Effect is vanishingly small.

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Post by wongarsu »

creaturemachine wrote: post #198
pixl97 wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Simply put Microsoft is the worst company at naming stuff. Even when they come up with a good name for something, they'll name 3 other totally different products the same thing to maximize confusion.

It's the new .NET

Active Copilot.NET 365

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Post by x0x0 »

izzydata wrote: post #171

Microsoft, can you please let me remove recommendations from the start menu? Not just less recommendations. I want the category to not be displayed and taking up space.

What I heard is you would like some highly relevant ads to be at the top of your start menu for your convenience every time you want to start a program.

Oh, and have you heard about OneDrive?

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Post by Anthony-G »

bombcar wrote: post #273
Anthony-G wrote: post #269

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I find it interesting to go back in time so I read the accompanying article and came across this snippet: > despite the computing apocalypse that Windows XP's Product Activation features were supposed to ignite, I've never had the first problem with it At the time, I remember a lot of scare stories about how the Product Activation system in Windows XP would result in the death of user freedom. It didn’t effect me bec…

Part of it was that Microsoft was really more concerned with distributors selling computers with pirated copies of Windows, and they basically would activate anything if you were willing to call. I remember doing it a few times for the "OEM" Windows XP which was cheaper but not supposed to migrate to new machines.

Thanks for that bit of background. That make sense.

I used to think that MS were probably happy with a certain amount of “piracy” (students, voluntary groups, people starting off as self-employed contractors, etc.) because it kept people in their ecosystem (using MS Office and other Windows-only software), helped reinforce the perception of Windows as being the OS for getting stuff done (either work or games) and some of these “pirates” would become future (paying) customers.

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Post by autoexec »

ppap3 wrote: post #25

I don't take this lightly. These are the folks who are doing what they can to be part of the government. They simply cannot take criticism and this seems to be a pattern moving forward.

So in other words they'll fit right in
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