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The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a disaster

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Re: The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a disaster

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Post by richardw »

JimDabell wrote: post #406
dreamcompiler wrote: post #365

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> So much this, when you see Zuck or even Jensen Huang saying "software engineers won't be needed anymore" and being excited about it you get pissed off as a software engineer lol. The real story nobody is saying out loud is that CEOs are much more replaceable by AI than are software engineers.

CEO is the one job role that AI can’t take because AI lacks accountability. Who is the person using the AI that will get blamed by the board if they screw up? That’s the CEO, even if you decide to give them a different title.

That applies to many roles. Lawyer AI can’t actually lawyer because someone needs to be accountable. War fighting AI needs to know where to kill. Doctor AI needs handholding. If we can find a legal construct for an AI surgeon operating on your child I think we can find one for an agent running a marketing company working on shareholders behalf.

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Post by 9dev »

johnnyanmac wrote: post #305
Toutouxc wrote: post #86

I understand people who love Apple (or the OSS world) unconditionally and I understand people who hate either, but I find it hard to feel any kind of strong emotion towards Microsoft. Feels like there isn’t a single product person left in the company, no vision, no direction, no soul, no plan, nothing.

"The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And I don't mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don't think of original ideas, and they don't bring much culture into their products." - Steve Jobs. 1996 I guess some things never truly change. And thst kind of" culture" is how you amass a cult following (it's in the word, "cult" ure). Ou…

Well, that's not quite fair. NT is a very interesting and definitely original kernel design, for example; NTFS is a file system with unique properties, and AJAX was an API devised at Microsoft (that one absolutely lacks taste, but at least it's an original idea).

That being said, I agree that the company and the brand evoke nothing but negative emotions in me, and I don't know anyone that would have anything better than "meh" on them.

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Post by ramchip »

iamleppert wrote: post #358

I tried using Copilot that is embedded into Azure. It couldn’t tell me the right instructions to complete something trivial like exporting a database. Instead, it sent me to an out of date documentation complete with old screenshots. When I asked for the up to date documentation, it refused. Then I asked “Why are all Microsoft products so crap?” and it told me I had violated the content policy and disappeared. A day…

Have you tried drinking a verification can?

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Post by wishfish »

maximilianthe1 wrote: post #150
munchler wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The move to a subscription model is where I started to lose the thread, and it’s gotten worse from there. I understand OneDrive as Microsoft’s version of Dropbox, but the more it’s integrated into Windows/Office, the more confusion it causes me.

I was confused to discover (while deleting OneDrive), that it had changed my Desktop folder from User/Desktop to User/OneDrive/Desktop.

That confused me too. Made me a little angry when I was looking for something in Documents. I went to Users\username\Documents and the data wasn't in that folder. Turns out Windows maintained two Documents folders. That one + OneDrive\Documents.

I had uninstalled OneDrive the first time I used this laptop. But that wasn't enough. I had to reinstall OneDrive. Turn off folder backups. Unlink the PC from OneDrive. Then uninstall it again. That fixed the two Documents folders problem. OneDrive\Documents went away and the contents put back into Users\username\Documents.

A fairly frustrating experience and wasted about an hour troubleshooting it.

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Post by prmoustache »

for_i_in_range wrote: post #8

Hate that if you use Word for Mac, you now have Copilot next to your cursor with no way of turning it off. I just want to use Word. I like its print layout features better than Pages. I don't want to switch. Just let me write and leave me alone. Now they're jamming AI down my throat without any opt-out mechanism.

> I just want to use Word. I like its print layout features better than Pages. I don't want to switch. Just let me write and leave me alone. Now they're jamming AI down my throat without any opt-out mechanism.

Why don't you install and use one of the last single purchase licensed version? Last time I checked they were still available.

Re: The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a disaster

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Post by faragon »

The AI assistant for Office 365 is confusing, e.g., the "light bulb" feature in meetings/calendars adds random OneDrive references. This can be dangerous, as it might be mistaken for attached documents, leading to misunderstandings between the people in the meeting. Such features should be OFF by default and enabled selectively, allowing users granular control over their impact.
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