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Microsoft says bug causes Copilot to summarize confidential emails

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Re: Microsoft says bug causes Copilot to summarize confidential emails

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marcosdumay wrote: post #53
etchalon wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apple not doing much better, but from the other end. Microsoft releasing overly ambitious features with disastrous consequences. Apple releasing features so unambitious it's hard to remember they're there.

The problem with the Microsoft features is really not excessive ambition. Half of the time it's open user hostility and blatant incompetence. The other half it's just the incompetence. Ambition doesn't enter the picture at all.

Eh. I think it is ambition. It's a lot product managers coming up with ideas, I think, and teams with a mandate to release those ideas.

Re: Microsoft says bug causes Copilot to summarize confidential emails

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nyrikki wrote: post #56
moritzwarhier wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Microsoft software since the 2014, for the most part, is also paraphrased from other people's code they find laying around online. That was pretty funny and explains a lot. I wish I could do more :( Instead I always break things when I paraphrase code without the GeniusParaphrasingTool

This is exactly why I moved to self hosted code in 2017. While I couldn’t have predicted the future, even classic data mining posed a risk. It is just reality that if you give a third party access to your data, you should expect them to use it. It is just too tempting of a value stream and legislation just isn’t there to avoid the EULA trap. I was targeting a market where fractions of a percentage advantage were impo…

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Re: Microsoft says bug causes Copilot to summarize confidential emails

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Post by observationist »

etchalon wrote: post #61
marcosdumay wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The problem with the Microsoft features is really not excessive ambition. Half of the time it's open user hostility and blatant incompetence. The other half it's just the incompetence. Ambition doesn't enter the picture at all.

Eh. I think it is ambition. It's a lot product managers coming up with ideas, I think, and teams with a mandate to release those ideas.

Yes, and those ideas are user hostile and poorly conceived, badly executed, and incompetently built.

A remote code execution exploit in notepad?! That's not professional, or skillful, or well done. Unnecessary feature bloat and change for the sake of change, because some MBA dork wants to justify their department and continued employment by checking boxes on spreadsheets.

There's no innovation or skillful, well built features. There's hardly any consideration of users at all, except as net continuing depositors of money into Microsoft coffers. Features and updates are nothing more than marketing slop and manipulation of enterprise into renewing subscriptions and purchasing the latest version of new hardware.

edit:

I just don't think that you can point at a company whose entire foundational product, Windows, the operating system that's pretty much default for most of the world, and say that they're not completely and utterly failing as a company when their single most compelling "feature" is that the OS can run Excel.

It's the year of the Linux desktop, fire it up and never look back!

Re: Microsoft says bug causes Copilot to summarize confidential emails

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Post by allthetime »

esalman wrote: post #51
observationist wrote: post #28

Seems like every day there's another compelling reason to switch to Linux. Microsoft is doing truly incredible work this year!

I recently switched my work laptop from a Dell to a MacBook. I found out that windows 11 has so much corporate bloat, than even MS apps like outlook, office and OneDrive functions better on a Mac than on Windows 11.

It’s been this way forever.

Re: Microsoft says bug causes Copilot to summarize confidential emails

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Post by DecoPerson »

I wonder, is Microsoft doing “outsider trading”, where they covertly pipe analytical data to the executives’ independently-owned stock trading houses as “tips”? They’ve had access to so many corporate internal emails for so long, with MS365, but Copilot is the perfect way to mask such analysis. Also Copilot would be good at analysing emails and providing useful “tips”.

Just my whacky conspiracy theory of the day!

Re: Microsoft says bug causes Copilot to summarize confidential emails

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Post by etchalon »

observationist wrote: post #65
etchalon wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Eh. I think it is ambition. It's a lot product managers coming up with ideas, I think, and teams with a mandate to release those ideas.

Yes, and those ideas are user hostile and poorly conceived, badly executed, and incompetently built. A remote code execution exploit in notepad ?! That's not professional, or skillful, or well done. Unnecessary feature bloat and change for the sake of change, because some MBA dork wants to justify their department and continued employment by checking boxes on spreadsheets. There's no innovation or skillful, well buil…

I agree except for Microsoft "failing". Windows is failing. Microsoft has moved onto other things.
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