It’s showing no sign of budging.
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Microsoft poisoned their own well with all the changes they have been forcing on users lately. The update nagging, resetting the default browser to edge, the the ads in windows features, and integrating bing into the start menu have all trained users that when Microsoft starts pushing something new, it probably isn’t great and should just be ignored, like ads in phone apps.
That ^
Also, the copilot llm sucks. Local models are neat within their limitations, and they’d be even better if Microsoft made them trainable/customizable, did better RAG, more integrated, or whatever, but they just shoved a dumb thing down user’s throats, and now they’ve poisoned another well.
It drives me insane when I randomly get Microsoft telling me to finish setting up my PC like 5 years into owning it and all its trying to do is get me to reset my default browser to edge. Fucking annoying as shit.
Linux mint is free and works really well. I switched six months ago and with I would have years ago
Corporations have always hated labor because it’s always their highest cost. It’s why layoffs are the first to be used, and usually the largest way, to cover up bad profits for shareholders. Anything that allows a corporation to cut labor costs, even at the expense of their entire service offering was bound to be adopted as thoroughly as possible, regardless of public sentiment. They keep hoping more data will be the key to get AI to replace the cost of having to pay workers!
Thing is, last I read, humans have not produced enough written works (in all of human history) to make AI good enough to replace labor.
Layoffs used to be less common prior to the itinerant CEO being the main type. Layoffs as a performance for shareholders even when it’s known that they hurt the long term stability of the company is 80s/90s.
They forced something nobody asked for or had a use for beyond the quick what does it do? Then wandered why no one used it? Shocked Pikachu face.
The meta one in WhatsApp, utterly pointless. Copilot non-use to me at all. Gemini has less features than the old Google assistant and is worse in every way at doing the things it does do.
It would be great itlf they’d stop reshaping a working OS around fads.
Tablets went nowhere and left a big scar on Windows and now AI is gonna do the same.
They missed the boat on the one thing that could have made them money, gaming. If they’d put half the effort of this copilot crap into integrating something to compete with steam around that time then things would be very different.
This AI bubble needs to pop. It’s had it’s fun, it has some niches but for day to day usage at work and home it’s of no use to the vast majority of people.
Yeah there’s nothing I like more than having AI integrated into everything I do. It’s sure fun to have educated guesses crowbarred into everything I search for!
Uneducated guesses.
Basically having a game of telephone crowbarred into everything
Isn’t copilot that horrifically invasive LITERAL spyware that screenshots everything you’re doing?
GEE WHIZ WHO WOULDN’T WANT THAT
Gods fucking damn it Microsoft, get a clue.
Copilot is Microsoft’s name for their AI service, like Google’s Gemini or Chat GPT. Recall is their service that will screenshot everything you do for
trainingimproving the results.You’re thinking of Recall
Glad to see it. It begs the question though, if they could get computers to want to talk to other computers and Microsoft could somehow make money, would that make them happy? Is computer to computer business something corporations want?
That’s right; Microsoft Copilot’s weekly user base is only 5% of the number of people who use ChatGPT, and it’s not increasing. It’s also worth noting that there are approximately 1.5 billion Windows users worldwide, which means just over 1% of them are using Copilot, a tool that’s now a Windows default app. This is quite scary from Microsoft’s point of view, which has put so much effort and money into its AI ventures that it really cannot afford for its business to dwindle out so soon.
This is quite scary from Microsoft’s point of view, which has put so much effort and money into its AI ventures that it really cannot afford for its business to dwindle out so soon.
No one forced them to jump on the hype train. And, rather than realizing people don’t want it shoved into every nook and cranny of the OS and its default apps, they’re probably going to double down and start with full-screen popups or some other bullcrap like they did with the Windows 10 upgrades.
“The people will like what we tell them to like” only seems to work for Apple.
I was getting copilot pop-ups months ago that were begging me to join. Every update, I have to check the settings again. One Note and Copilot can go suck on some eggs.
On, snap. Maybe group policy at work keeps the worst of that at bay (I’ve only seen the CoPilot app show up in the start menu which I immediately removed).
I don’t have a horse in that fight at home (everything Linux all the time), so I didn’t realize it had reached that point already. Lol, and people still don’t want it.
