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Microsoft's Attempts to Sell AI Agents Are Turning Into a Disaster (futurism.com)
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[–] TriangleSpecialist@lemmy.world 23 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (4 children)

That's really unsurprising. I don't know what the MS guys are smoking but I need some urgently.

Also, has there been anything, in recent memory, that Microsoft has tried to do that was new, and has been a success?

Seems to me for the past 15 years they have just:

  • Made their existing products worse;
  • Acquired other products and destroyed them;
  • Tried new things that flopped monumentally.

We are so lucky to live in a society were the merit of one's product and company dictates their market success /s

[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 7 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Also, has there been anything, in recent memory, that Microsoft has tried to do that was new, and has been a success?

Arguably not totally new, but quite the success: lobbying for big corporate IT to use their shitty products and enforce use of them onto all users.

[–] TriangleSpecialist@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I feel like that's been going on from pretty much the very start, or at the very least right after they put a chokehold on OEMs for them to put windows on desktops by default. Have they been recently pushing even harder or in newer ways I'm not aware of?

[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago

As someone who felt forced out of a corporate IT environment due to their software hindering my workflow, I would say they have been quite successful in forcing competitors out of corporat intranets. The environment that I left ended up removing LibreOffice from the internal software catalogue, probably due to successful lobbying.

[–] Piatro@programming.dev 8 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Azure and Teams. The former makes them waaaaaaay more money of course. Other than that it's been a trainwreck. Gamepass was relatively novel but increased the price so much as to make it unviable for most people, that's before you get into the plague of issues with it like controller compatibility, which is itself a problem of Microsoft's own making.

[–] TriangleSpecialist@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Ah I thought azure was a bit older than this. My bad.

As for Teams I personally include it in the category of acquiring Skype and ruining it but you're right, it is technically a new product that is sadly successful...

[–] FluidBeef@quokk.au 3 points 22 hours ago

It is.

[–] Zier@fedia.io 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

After MS ruining a couple of products, I abandoned them. Everything they try to do is a fad. They have no innovation and quit way too fast. Google is their twin. Checkout my essay on it at my Google+ profile... oh wait, never mind.

[–] TriangleSpecialist@lemmy.world 4 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I'll read it while listening to some banging tunes one my Zune. I made the playlist using Bing, on my Windows phone, it's so good.

[–] Zier@fedia.io 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Zuner or later it all comes to an end. BRB I just got a new HotMail message. :)

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world -1 points 10 hours ago

I still have my Hotmail account from the 90s. :)

[–] Xenny@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

The Todo list app they make is pretty good......can't think of anything else

[–] TriangleSpecialist@lemmy.world 4 points 22 hours ago

The summer intern work doing some heavy lifting here.

[–] fartsparkles@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago

But they just had to go and call it To Do so every time I search todo, it doesn’t come up as the first result

[–] TRBoom@lemmy.zip 6 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

An AI Agents tab popped up in my admin panel this week. I went through the settings and was able to disable it across my org. For security purposes of course.

[–] purplemonkeymad@programming.dev 4 points 21 hours ago

I noticed that power automate was lumped into the agents section. So mainly went with the disable 3rd party settings. Since you know, that's enabled by default like a bunch of other settings.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 6 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

And this fucking clown show is the reason why I can't buy an SSD for neither my desktop nor my old ThinkPad!

[–] TriangleSpecialist@lemmy.world 6 points 21 hours ago

You don't need an SSD if all your personal and sensitive data is in the corpo approved cloud and you just ask nicely the AI agent to access it.