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“Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server

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Post by zapzupnz »

locusofself wrote: post #370
zapzupnz wrote: post #358

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Microsoft have been bashed on the daily since forever. There's no way you joined the company without knowing it was happening prior to you joining, at the time of you joining, and after you joining.

It's true. As a matter of fact I credit a lot of my career to being made fun of on IRC in the 1990s for running mIRC client for Windows, because you were not "leet" if you didn't run Linux or FreeBSD, which took my down a huge rabbit-hole of Linux and coding for many years, which is how I know anything in the first place. I'm in the tiny minority of people in big tech who didn't go to college. The bashing on MSFT has…

Ah, is that not going to college part why you're loathe to give up such a good gig? Surely by now your CV speaks for itself, although I suppose in Redmond, where else are you going to go.

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Post by jajuuka »

hluska wrote: post #316

Several hours worth of anal probe jokes on an article that could likely warrant an actual discussion? That was disappointing to read here.

Tech feels more filled with hipsters every day. If the story is about any major company or product it's just dunked on for social credits. But anything that is outside that is considered interesting and worth further investigation. It's frustrating me to no end.

Re: “Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server

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Post by natas »

I recently had dinner in Bellevue with an individual who holds a relatively senior position within Microsoft’s executive leadership. During our conversation, she emphasized repeatedly that Microsoft does not primarily view its offerings as consumer products. According to her, the company’s leadership is strongly focused on B2B strategy, with revenue growth driven mainly by Azure, AI, and enterprise solutions.

Her perspective was that consumer-facing products are not the primary revenue drivers and, therefore, are not central to executive priorities. While this may not be surprising to some, what stood out to me was how emphatically she underscored that the company’s strategic focus is squarely on enterprise customers rather than end users.

That said, this business model has historically proven effective for companies such as IBM. Microsoft allocates its resources toward segments that offer meaningful revenue growth.

Re: “Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server

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Post by phs318u »

TheAceOfHearts wrote: post #71
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?

I'd imagine that there's some discussion about how to make the most out of the tool as well as discussion of experiments and capabilities. I'm not even sure what exactly "Microsoft Copilot" entails anymore because of the multiple rebrands, but having a place where you can discuss exploring plugins and other adjacent features seems useful. Not quite the same, but recently I was recently looking around for communities…

Did you find the Claude community you were looking for?

Re: “Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server

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Post by medi8r »

natas wrote: post #383

I recently had dinner in Bellevue with an individual who holds a relatively senior position within Microsoft’s executive leadership. During our conversation, she emphasized repeatedly that Microsoft does not primarily view its offerings as consumer products. According to her, the company’s leadership is strongly focused on B2B strategy, with revenue growth driven mainly by Azure, AI, and enterprise solutions. Her per…

Foolish since a world where no one uses Windows at home will ve damaging for enterprise long term.

Re: “Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server

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Post by gspr »

yxhuvud wrote: post #353
Maken wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would anyone use Teams?

It is fairly ok for meetings and calendar integration. It is dogshit at chatting, however.

> It is fairly ok for meetings

… when it works. And if you never have to change camera or microphone settings.

> and calendar integration.

The little notification that pops up telling you your meeting is about to start based on your calendar? The one you better not click in the first 5 or so seconds it's there, because then you'll end up with an error message that tells you absolutely nothing, have to go back to the chat, and try again?

No, it's not usable. For anything.

Re: “Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server

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Post by dralley »

natas wrote: post #383

I recently had dinner in Bellevue with an individual who holds a relatively senior position within Microsoft’s executive leadership. During our conversation, she emphasized repeatedly that Microsoft does not primarily view its offerings as consumer products. According to her, the company’s leadership is strongly focused on B2B strategy, with revenue growth driven mainly by Azure, AI, and enterprise solutions. Her per…

> That said, this business model has historically proven effective for companies such as IBM.

In some ways. Less so in others.

For products that get commoditized for home use, the "business focused" high-margin solutions generally lose out to the commoditized solutions focused on end consumers in the long term.

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Post by Fnoord »

st_goliath wrote: post #28
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.

If you're German-speaking: "Klopilot" and "Vibrierkot" are some modern day personal favorites. On a similar, nostalgic note, I recall boot screens for "Sinnlos 98" floating around, back when modifying the bootup logo was a thing.

Winamp, by Nullsoft.

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Post by worik »

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.

> These are the folks who are doing what they can to be part of the government.

Not really. They want real power

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Post by tredre3 »

ErroneousBosh wrote: post #318
samgranieri wrote: post #179

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m at the point to tell people (friends, neighbors, fellow parents, family, ie, not HN readers) to prolong the life of their existing computers and install what I think is the easiest windows equivalent on their computers: kubuntu. Gnome is nice and all, but the default ui, and remember defaults matter for a lot of people, is just too jarring. The people I am talking about just wanna browse the web, go on Facebook a…

Surely it doesn't matter what the DE is then? My mum adjusted from Windows XP (when that was current) to Ubuntu 14-ish fairly easily, by simply remembering "switch it on and then click on the big swirly fox thing".

Ubuntu comes with a dock which is close enough to Windows.

The comment chain you're replying to is arguing that vanilla GNOME is too different, and they're right.

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