So Copilot in Office is the new "Hall of Tortured Souls"?
Microsoft is walking back Windows 11's AI overload
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#32They need a more fundamental mind shift frankly.
It’s not an AI problem but rather a ram stuff down users throat even when they clearly don’t want it problem.
See broken start menu that does a web search instead showing your apps. See forced online install. See one drive everywhere.
Toning down the AI a bit won’t be enough
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#33> It appears this moment of pushback has resonated with internal teams: According to people familiar with Microsoft’s plans, the company is now reevaluating its AI strategy on Windows 11 and plans changes to streamline or even remove certain AI features where they don’t make sense. Obviously this is a complete failure of governance. The very first thing they should have considered was whether or not these features ma…
It seems like a failure in vision from leadership rather than a failure in governance. My understanding is that the company was told from the very top to put AI everywhere and that's exactly what they did.
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't know about Windows, but it will take a lot more enshittification than that to burn down the Office brand. Excel alone carries it to dominance.
The Office brand is literally gone, they renamed it to "Microsoft Copilot 365 app". Check https://office.com
Copilot is such a dumb brand name. At least to me, it confers that I need to be a pilot and that it requires training to be one.
I just want to be productive, not fly a plane.
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#35> It appears this moment of pushback has resonated with internal teams: According to people familiar with Microsoft’s plans, the company is now reevaluating its AI strategy on Windows 11 and plans changes to streamline or even remove certain AI features where they don’t make sense. Obviously this is a complete failure of governance. The very first thing they should have considered was whether or not these features ma…
I think Windows 11 is the Trump moment. Even if they right the ship, Linux is good enough or good enough is on the near horizon for most use cases so people are jumping ship. There's also bleed from people being tired of Apple's lack of software innovation.
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#36Please, delete all AI from my Windows
Not your property, sorry.
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#37I can’t believe I’m going to type this, but I miss the Ballmer days. Current leadership has somehow made this company even worse.
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#38It's a shame, I was dreaming of getting a chat-based operating system.
(sarcasm)
Re: Microsoft is walking back Windows 11's AI overload
#39Can we walk back on whatever is causing my 3060 computer to work slower than my windows computer from the 1990s? Or my phone?
Re: Microsoft is walking back Windows 11's AI overload
#40> It appears this moment of pushback has resonated with internal teams: According to people familiar with Microsoft’s plans, the company is now reevaluating its AI strategy on Windows 11 and plans changes to streamline or even remove certain AI features where they don’t make sense. Obviously this is a complete failure of governance. The very first thing they should have considered was whether or not these features ma…
> Obviously this is a complete failure of governance.
How so? The forced feeding of AI is what Satya called for.