For those unaware: “Microsoft Office” is now called “Microsoft 365 Copilot”
The more they shoehorn copilot into everything, the more they can claim it’s the most popular LLM ever and all those billions of dollars were totally not wasted. So please give me my huge bonus
It’s a pump and dump. MS owns something like 25% in OpenAI. The moment OpenAI goes public MS stock will go up as well but that only happens if they can inflate the user numbers. Remember people at the top of MS earn most of their money in stock options and by selling those shares on a scheduled basis. It’s not considered insider trading if the sale of the stock was planned ahead of time and notified to the authorities.
As if insider trading would be punished these days
If that’s the case then we should celebrate. When the dump stage hits and OpenAI stock tanks we’ll see a wider selloff in the AI industry. Could burst the bubble entirely!
Don’t worry, your tax dollars will be hard at work propping up those “too big to fail” AI companies.
Convinced a majority of the use cases are from corporations mandating employees to use it.
Meanwhile, at Google:
- People enjoy this product, what do we do?
- KILL IT! Abandon it! Retire it! Make it worse so we can kill it off!
Meanwhile at Netflix:
Hmmm people sure do love this show that ended its second season on a cliffhanger. Time for the garbage bin!
Google likes to kill products because the org rewards new products.
If a product gets killed you can make it again after a few people shuffle around.
This all works well as long as ads keep making money.
I’m still bitter about inbox. It was near perfect.
I loved it too, but didn’t they integrate most of the functionality into regular Gmail?
They did, but not all, and the look and feel wasn’t.
- People enjoy this product, what do we do?
And the most infuriating part is that per-additional-user pricing on all the AI crap is (unlike traditional software) insanely high. Having a 1000 live users in Office 365 barely costs anything, but a hundred ppl clicking buttons in 365 Copilot will need a brand new server rack with a dozen GPUs. Putting it everywhere is simply illogical, you should only use it for when its absolutely required.
unless you go by stock value instead of logic, of course.
And that’s exactly what happens, a big old rug pull. Inflate share price for share holders and milk as much as possible regardless of long term effects.
Collabora enters the room…
Fucking hell. I didn’t have The Product Formerly Known as Office in this year’s bingo card.
It’s actually quite clever. Now they can brag about the amazing spike in market share of Copilot for their shareholders. Wohoo! Every company is using Copilot (formerly Office)!!!
Soon they’ll rebrand Windows to Copilot OS to increase the market share even further.
Soon they’ll rebrand Windows to Copilot OS
You joke, but I would be unsurprised by this.
The name fits, because they shoehorned it in everywhere. After my work station was updated to Win11 I wasn’t even able to share documents without Copilot being involved.
I hope this will lead to even more people and organizations dropping microslop for alternatives. Preferably open source
Right ok, first of, the application known as “Microsoft 365 Office Hub” was renamed to Microsoft Copilot 365… 4 months ago. For some reason some “tech journalist” who runs Pop!OS launches his Windows VM for the first time in 6 months noticed that he had two Copilot apps now and rather than actually read into how and why this happened he just gets angry because he’s nostalgic for Control Panel and 300 words of bullshit.
No one was really aware of this application or the very specific use case it served. It actually came out under Windows 8 because it was the application to open office documents under Windows Mobile.
The functionality of this application has been split into one of the “Office Copilot Companion” apps which are brilliant.
Do I agree with the amount of “AI tools” being forced everywhere? No, especially for image and video generation. Do I agree they should be shut down because “well none of my friends in my Discord server use it”. No. Agentic Web browsers can be, the new RSS. Automated access to certain websites which are terrible. A website won’t work in a screen reader? Now it can. A website requires a paid subscription to access a REST API? Not when my browser can just check it for me.
Are there any other CoPilots I should know about?
Meow.
There is no more Windows OS, only CoPilot OS
heres what they gotta do:
get peeps interested
nobody cares about copilot cuz its just another chatgpt for them.
paid copilot accounts get the actual “copiliting” functionality, where it can
- read ur microsoft-native files
- perform multiple edits across them
- interact with ur one drive stuff
- do - what they call “data analysis” on crazy long excel files
- some other stuff, iduno, never paid for it
so like - the actual “copiliting” part, where it can actually do stuff agentically is a paid thing.
they gotta give free users a way to use this stuff, so that some of them go “oh, okay, I might use this some time”. this way, instead of advertising LM stuff big-time, they show us LM stuff big time, and some peeps go “okay fine, imma ask management if we can get the full version of this”.
for free users, Microsofts copilot really is just another chatgpt… which is unfortunate, cuz they built some quite impressive scaffolding to integrate with their stuff, but its all paywalled.
oh yea btw - this is not me saying “copilot is actually good”, but rather “peeps dont kno what Microsoft is trying to sell”.
if they dont watch out, kimi ok computer is gonna eat their lunch for free by making better scaffolding for Microsofts own proprietary file formats.
microsoft could try to appeal to users, to then appeal to business and enterprise… but no… they dont wana.
The funny part here is that on launch the copilot was good. Yes, in general it may have decreased the development speed, but it was vibing.
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