• Brewchin@lemmy.world
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    Microslop going full “the beatings will continue until morale improves” with their ensloppification of everything they touch, I see.

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      They’re already changing the name of MS Office to “Microsoft Copilot App”. So when you use Copilot inside Microsoft Office on Windows, you’ll be running Copilot in the Copilot App on Copilot OS.

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      “I know we said Windows 10 would be the last version of Windows you’d need, but we really mean it this time with Windows 11. Introducing our new operating system… Compost, I mean, Copilot!”

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      Users: File search should not be this bad
      Microsoft: How about this bad?

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    Explorer already crashes enough without this.

    Why don’t they work on Explorer’s awful performance and constant hanging before working in another chatbot?

    You know, useful software development work?

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      Because there aren’t any developers in charge any more. At places like MS and Google now promotions are given to people who make a big splash. Fixing a bug doesn’t get attention.

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      I’m surprised at this. If I was given the job to fuck up windows, I wouldn’t be able to get such ludicrous ideas

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        ive run dual boot systems to prolong the life of older lenovo notebooks, leaving windows up for some proprietary software id need for work… if this comes to pass though, im fucking GONE. Ill sooner use macOS than anything with a fucking llm looking at the files on my hard drive 👉

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    Genuine question. How does all of this useless nonsense make them money? Is it all just from loans? Are they just saying “look at all the AI we’re doing” and the investors are just desperate to give them more money?

    I just cannot fathom how they profit from all of this. They’re spending so much time doing this. For what? What is the business motive for doing this, if not to get bigger loans from their investors?

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      Copilot is falling very far behind all of the other big AI players in the space that it’s actually laughable. The main reason they’re implementing it into every Windows first party application is so they can boost their “user” numbers to satisfy investors.

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        I asked DeepSeek something the other day and it actually admitted that it didn’t know the answer and offered advice on how I could find out. I was actually pretty impressed by that

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        Down last few months, but overall strong upwards trend over the last few years.

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      Nadella’s buddies are all making AI garbage, so he thinks he has to make AI garbage too. Because he’s massively uncreative.

      And so all the managing leads think “Nadella likes AI! I must find a way to shove AI into my product so that my product/fiefdom doesn’t get the axe! I might even get a bonus! Or promotion!!!”

      And so all the coding slaves are tasked with shoehorning AI into every Microsoft product, app, and/or service.

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    Soon in the Microslop support forums: “Please help, I asked Copilot for the photos of my late grandma and it deleted my entire C drive”.

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      The agent has decided you need more OneDrive storage. Your credit card will be charged. If you disagree with the agent, grandma’s pictures will be deleted. Comply and rent Batman the Dark Knight Arises on the Windows Store.

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      It probably “saw” the trash icon somewhere and some “deep thought” model concluded that erasing everything was a good idea.

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    Gotta pump up those usage numbers somehow. Before long, it’ll be on the login screen

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    The thing is that if MS concentrated on providing a bulletproof experience, a sane licensing mode, with a low, cheap, entry bar, they would just keep being the top dog forever.

    Now they are just giving market share to Linux and MacOS for free.