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Microsoft allows use of personal Microsoft 365 subscriptions at work

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#41
Can’t see that going down well with sysadmins or legal or compliance

Even the ability to upload docs would already break rules potentially. eg data storage jurisdiction. Retention. Etc

The places that do allow confidential info on copilot did a mountain of work to ensure all the legal and compliance is fine. No way this “btw it’s enabled now just use your own“ approach flies

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#42

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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.

Maybe Copilot will get wrapped into a Sky.NET meta-platform.

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If 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.

I present to you, the page of Copilots: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/copilot/microsoft-365/whic...

(Note that they recently simplified their enterprise SKUs - there used to be one more I believe.)

Re: Microsoft allows use of personal Microsoft 365 subscriptions at work

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Waiting for a rebranding to .AI Core Copilot 12 Fall Creators Update Service Pack 3.

Re: Microsoft allows use of personal Microsoft 365 subscriptions at work

#46
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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”).

Years ago, I used to use a program called FolderShare, which was later purchased by Microsoft and renamed umpteen times to match the branding strategy of the moment.

I’ve always been amused by how the Wikipedia article starts off: “Windows Live Mesh (formerly known as Windows Live FolderShare, Live Mesh, and Windows Live Sync) is a discontinued free-to-use Internet-based file synchronization application by Microsoft …”

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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.

That's how you get your lunch eaten by Chrome Remote Desktop.

Re: Microsoft allows use of personal Microsoft 365 subscriptions at work

#48

Maybe I get it, isn’t this forcing employees to pay for their own AI?

The idea is that users can circumvent IT policies which explicitly have not enabled or banned such products. Microsoft is hoping to sneak under the tent to enable more subscriptions directly from users if they cannot get companies to pay.

Which is a bold play. At my company, were I to try and smuggle data out to a third party-that is normally an insta-termination level offense.

Re: Microsoft allows use of personal Microsoft 365 subscriptions at work

#49
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If 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…

I cancelled my 365 subscription last night and was surprised to see that I was scheduled to pay $100 next month for an annual subscription tier that adds AI features that I would never use. The most valuable plan they offer is the one they charge the least for.

Yes they recently raised the price by merging copilot into it. No version of office is offered without copilot.

Re: Microsoft allows use of personal Microsoft 365 subscriptions at work

#50
post #35

Earlier 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 can't tell you how many times I've had customers buy the wrong MS product because the naming schemes are so confusing. Honestly for how often this happens and how long it's been part of their company it feels like us the consumer are on the butt end of some inside joke.
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