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Copilot could soon live inside Windows 11's File Explorer, as Microsoft tests Chat with Copilot in Explorer, not just in a separate app (www.windowslatest.com)

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[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

It is a cold dark night at Microsoft Headquarters. The moon is blacked out by the clouds and rain and thunder beat relentlessly against the office windows.

The head UX engineer stares at the prompt nervously. He hesitates, his whole life has been building up to this point. He is going to control where windows is going and shape the lives of billions of people.

"You got this," He mumbles to himself, "you know what to do."

He grabs a screenshot of his desktop and types the fateful words. Make this desktop make more money

The AI says processing...

[–] verdi@feddit.org 3 points 1 month ago

Nadella has gives exactly 0 fucks about Microsoft's products, legacy, its employees and the company itself, let alone the customers. His only concern is how can he squeeze more money from the white Dalits while enslaving Shudras and stealing their labour so he can further enrich himself. Anyone thinking otherwise is delusional.

[–] watson387@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 months ago

Fuck off with this shit...

[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They’re really tring to get it deep in their efforts to shove it down our throats. Must have had a lot of people uninstall it. Anyone know how to downgrade from 11 to 10 on a home version? Asking for a friend.

[–] RamRabbit@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Anyone know how to downgrade from 11 to 10 on a home version?

Make a Win 10 USB boot drive, boot into it, choose to format the drive, install 10.

That said, don't hook this computer up to the internet, Windows 10 isn't getting security updates.

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[–] illi@piefed.social 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why even have Windows at this point? Just have Copilot as the OS and be done with it.

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[–] ugjka@lemmy.ugjka.net 2 points 2 months ago

Nice another registry tweak I'll need!

[–] criticon@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Aren't they trying to fix explorer being slow af? How would adding copilot help?

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Now just relax . . and let the hooks do their work.

[–] eleefece@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

PLEASE

[–] ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Installed Dolphin on my work desktop which runs Win11, definitely not meant for Windows as certain functions like searching or dragging and dropping don’t work, at least it’s 1 step close to making windows slightly more bearable.

[–] JSens1998@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ha, I did the same thing on my work computer. It's a little broken in some aspects, but a 1000x better the using that dumpster fire know as File Explorer (oh sorry MS let me get it right... Microsoft File Explorer Copilot App)

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I have a new naming strategy for Microsoft.

They renamed Office 365 to Copilot 365, right?

But there are so many other cool businessy numbers! I propose this:

Explorer becomes Copilot 360

Edge becomes Copilot24 (24 suffix is/was very common for websites in the 00s here in Estonia, auto24 is our biggest used car marketplace to this day for an example)

Calculator becomes Copilot Pi

Xbox app becomes Copilot Series X

And the Microsoft Store becomes Copilot One X

[–] JSens1998@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Be careful here, champ. You're giving them a lot of ideas. Microsoft might come in and scoop up all these names. However, there's just one problem with your naming scheme. You forgot to add "App" at the end of all the names.

[–] yggstyle@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

This brings new meaning to releasing satan on your hard drive.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Soon there won't be an explorer, or any folders that you can access. Just ask your ad assistant for all the things, it knows all (your personal data), won't tell you much tho (bcs you are not their supervisor).

[–] enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

why is this tech always got implemented as chat lmao.

[–] JSens1998@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Because tech bros have a kink with shoving AI into every single thing... even your rectum in the near future. Prepare yourself my friend.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 1 points 2 months ago

Yey 😑

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