I unilaterally declare that it's "Satya Nadella gives all Microsoft employees a $30,000 raise from his own bank account" Day.
Microsoft allows use of personal Microsoft 365 subscriptions at work
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#32From 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.
Look up "echoleak"; the controls and permissions on co-pilot are an afterthought.
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#33If 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…
Microsoft is master of confusing programs, confusing naming and plans. Pretty much everything they produce is royally unclear in its naming.
They previously renamed Remote Desktop to Windows App.
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#34This should be a strike against MS's trustworthiness, if true. A lot of workplaces are hesitant to utilise AI models due to privacy or sensitivity concerns.
FTA: "Government tenants (GCC/DoD) for some reason don't support this capability, the one that Baroudi insists "does not create new data exposure risks." So the government customers that can really strike back at MS don't get this enabled by default. Very interesting... I would also wonder if this would trigger IT review due to data access patterns. Having copilot start accessing documents would likely trigger certai…
How do they even prevent leaks? Trying to paste something and getting a "Your organization's policy disallows this" would be amazing.
Next they should block me when I try to type the content manually into the Glorified Auto-Correct..
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#35If 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.
What is it with Microsoft and confusing product naming schemes? There was Xbox One X/Xbox One S/Xbox Series S/Xbox Series X. Or .NET (previously .NET Core) vs. .NET Framework (which everyone used to just call “.NET”).
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#36Earlier 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?
I mean looking at it..
.NET as a brand name was obviously chosen because the Internet was hot, and also because Microsoft has no taste. The Internet is no longer so hot, and now they have a name that has no hot implication to it. So maybe rebrand, which after all is the general tactic of people who have no taste.
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#37> Samer Baroudi, senior product marketing manager at Microsoft, insists this is for your own good. > > "This offers a safer alternative to other bring-your-own-AI scenarios, and empowers users with Copilot in their daily jobs while keeping IT firmly in control and all enterprise data protections intact," Baroudi explained in a blog post. whew. they seem to be confusing exactly who the customer is here. they think the…
Microsoft enables self service trials and purchases on 365 tenants by default. Every new feature they deploy is on by default. This new personal account thing is also enabled by default. Microsoft has been hostile to internal IT teams for a long time. They burned that bridge with me and my peers a long time ago. Unfortunately, MS knows it’s a captive audience and enterprises aren’t rushing to exit Microsoft anytime s…
Unfortunately, MS knows it’s a captive audience and enterprises aren’t rushing to exit Microsoft anytime soon so they continue to get away with it.
That is the traditional spin but if they pull many stunts like this how long will it continue? Corporate IT teams are infamous for being slow and unwieldy but that's not entirely fair because the corporate IT teams are usually also the ones on the hook if anything goes wrong. Screw up some sort of data protection or regulatory compliance issue and that can have serious and lasting implications for the entire business. Move fast and break things is not what you want when x% of your global turnover is at stake if a regulator decides to make an example of you. Letting anyone else play with your toys is definitely not what you want in that scenario - why else do Windows Enterprise and Education editions not try to force the same hostile measures onto their customers as all the lower tiers?
This looks like a huge misstep to me - the kind of mess that could actually be big enough to move the needle. And for Microsoft the greatest danger is probably the needle moving enough for everyone to see it. Once no-one ever got fired for buying Microsoft except for that guy who just did it really could be the beginning of the end for them.
Microsoft also seems to have just abandoned one of the most powerful brands ever - Office - in a move that I can only assume was intended to show that Musk wasn't actually the craziest PR guy in the world when he renamed Twitter. There seems to be an outbreak of delusional thinking in Redmond and if this stuff doesn't get backtracked quickly I don't see a happy ending for MS here.
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#38Earlier 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.
What is it with Microsoft and confusing product naming schemes? There was Xbox One X/Xbox One S/Xbox Series S/Xbox Series X. Or .NET (previously .NET Core) vs. .NET Framework (which everyone used to just call “.NET”).
I'm still hoping for "Xbox One Series X" next
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#39Solid marketing play.
Streaming company IP to Microsoft is a dumb thing to do. Solid reason to not permit Copilot.
This doesn't cleverly usurp the silly backwards IT team, it's sending confidential data to Microsoft for the benefit of Microsoft and the detriment of your company. I.e. clear cut firing offense.
If the above makes sense to you, consider not using the windows 10/11 spyware system and/or not sending all company email through their servers.
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#40Do they mean “force Copilot down your throat” day?