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"People hate it when we force copilot and AI stuff on them, what should we do? Folks hate it so much they're actively leaving our OS!"

"Okay, hear me out: Add more."

This side pane will provide 'contextual insights and actionable suggestions', but I'm betting the idea won't be well received

I know what it is, it's the 'summarise page for me' feature. That nobody uses as much as they want. That's why they're forcing it. We need a private email service / frontend / program, i feel like this is going to their servers without oversight. I don't know.

Despite the big AI backlash that started late last year, Microsoft clearly isn't downing AI tools – but did we think it would? No, of course not, as AI agents are the next-big-thing (TM) in Windows 11, and there's no getting around that

So is everything. Just say "install linux now" I guess. Samsung is going 'agentic' AI. On our phones. No privacy, even. Apple enabled the age verification at an os level, besides i also hate how file transfering protocols work on iphones.

This isn't even my phone anymore because AI must access everything. No, no and no.

Ugh I never looked in the top right corner of outlook till today.....there it is, that piece of shit. Why would I need a goddamn summary of an email I'm already reading

I used Edge for business tasks. Not like work task, or normal browsing, etc. But figured if someone was going to send me an excel document, if I say “well I opened it in edge" when it breaks, it avoids some problems.

But with the latest updates they've really been "Microsofting" it hardcore. Chrome dialogs with broken buttons, impossible to use combined tabs behaviour, dead end settings pages with no controls, crashes, slower and slower browsing...

It's becoming such a disaster I can't even use it for that anymore. Now this? Thank god Firefox is still around. Legit hearing people talking about it again...

Who is making these decisions and what is their come to blood ratio, because I'm reckoning it's fairly high.

The only thing Edge is good for is downloading literally any other browser…

Luckily there's still the trick of not using Edge. Who knows for how long.

Just let the AI have a teensy weensy peek at all of your emails, guys, it's just an itsy bitsy little peek, what's the big deal, why don't you trust us??

I'll hate it because this already happens with links in MS Teams where despite having a high spec work computer it makes the system so sluggish that the mouse cursor won't move smoothly for 15 seconds or so while it sorts itself out.

I mean I've already got a Core i7 with 32G of RAM and an NVME sitting on my desk so how much freaking horsepower is THIS little stunt going to take?

This experience helps users quickly understand content

They really think we're stupid. Unfortunately, they may be mostly right.

So somebody took a look at the modern web and thought "Hey, this is pretty good, but you know what would make it even better? Even more shit you didn't ask for popping up in your face with every click!"

At this point I believe Microsoft pays the likes of Adobe to not make Linux versions of their software. Strange how MacOS has Microsoft office despite being them being the biggest competitor for their OS. It’s just that MacOS runs only on expensive MacBooks. Microsoft might have thought even if Macs get better than Windows in every aspect, people, businesses, schools and governments still won’t but them as they are too expensive.

But that’s not the case with Linux. Linux is pretty much better than Windows in almost every aspect. The only limiting factor is software support. And most people just use their computers for browsing the web and making spreadsheets and word docs — Microsoft office is the default here. If Microsoft Office were on Linux, Microsoft would have the potential to lose about half of their OS market share just because managers/CEOs will push it to save costs. Which will have a cascading effect — leading others like Adobe to make their creative suites available on Linux.

So Microsoft’s only card at play here is holding off Microsoft Office from Linux users as long as possible.

Windows users, I hope you guys know that you have our support in these trying times. I'm wearing a ribbon and everything.

Microsoft only beats you because they love you

Install Linux, Problem Solved.

The Grammarly plugin also started opening their AI chat panel in the side panel randomly once a day. And they also have a ton of false positive highligting that's just plain ridiculous since they 'improved' their spelling checker with AI. I uninstalled it.

"Customers hate AI" means "Cram more AI into everything" to Microsoft.

haha nuke the partition, put Linux on it