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.
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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.