>Microsoft is halfway through its 2026 fiscal year. It's almost like someone was given instructions at the end of the calendar year to bump up that revenue line for the Office Consumer division.
2026?
The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a disaster
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Re: The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a disaster
#482Hate 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'm on Word on a Mac, and I do not see Copilot at all.
What have I done to banish it?
(I'm with you. I actually don't mind Word and Excel, on either platform, because they're good. Excel is pretty great, tbh. But the ongoing goofiness of MSFT is definitely making me look at alternatives more than i used to.)
*EDIT* It appears my refusal to allow AutoUpdate to run at will has saved me? I'm on Word for Mac 16.8.
Re: The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a disaster
#483Earlier quoted context omitted.
The MacOS copilot implementation is horrid. Takes up a significant amount of screen space just to offer a summary of the email. Cannot turn off. For whatever reason cannot be a simple button with pop up on click. It’s horrid.
I can't think of an email I have ever received that needed to be summarized? Who is writing these super long emails?
People who need to convey complex ideas?
Re: The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a disaster
#484Hate 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.
Maybe it's time you vote with your wallet rather than begrudgingly accept the AI?
Re: The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a disaster
#485>Microsoft is halfway through its 2026 fiscal year. It's almost like someone was given instructions at the end of the calendar year to bump up that revenue line for the Office Consumer division. 2026?
When Microsoft decided to advance straight to Windows 10 from 8, it also necessitated skipping the 2015 fiscal year. They have been stuck a year in the future ever since.
Re: The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a disaster
#486Hate 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.
Maybe it's time you vote with your wallet rather than begrudgingly accept the AI?
Go with TempleOS. It doesn't come with any AI.
Re: The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a disaster
#487Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you throw word behind a firewall with something like little snitch, does copilot disappear? There is probably zero reason word, excel, or powerpoint should need to connect to the internet.
IIRC, excel’s ability to run Python is entirely cloud based, even in the desktop apps. There is, of course, probably zero reason why that would need to be the case either :/
this still makes me super mad.
I was very excited about that feature announcement --- until I realized it was just sending the code to MSFT to parse or whatever.
"Excel understands Python now" would be amazing. What they actually did is completely pointless.
Re: The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a disaster
#488I just downgraded my O365 subscription to remove Copilot. I went to (web version) my account settings, subscriptions, manage, and canceled my sub, which then gave me the option to select a Classic edition without Outlook. It's the same price, which is hilariously stupid, but maybe the worst part is that it doesn't deactivate Copilot until the next billing cycle. So, whether you can't use Copilot for security and priv…
> it is one of the most cataclysmic software failures in human history
idk ariane 5 crashed because of an int overflow
Re: The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a disaster
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> 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.
I've been saying for a long time that the real definition of 'personhood' is the ability to take liability. If something can be sued in court (not counting civil forfeiture sophistry) then it counts as a person.
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This seems extremely niche. Maybe even petty? Why do you care where the taskbar is? Remember that every change breaks someone's workflow : https://xkcd.com/1172/
It's been a feature of Windows for a decade+, why on earth would they remove it? I've had mine aligned to the top of the screen for as long as I can remember, and there's even 3rd party tools that restore this basic ass behavior in Win11 (not that I'll ever use that bloatware willingly again). M$ has no excuse, other than them being a completely incompetent entity of course.
> It's been a feature of Windows for a decade+
It was in Windows 95! AT LAUNCH!