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  • yencabulator2 hours ago
    Also good to remember that Microsoft Copilot is not Github Copilot even if Microsoft now runs Github. And then there's apparently Microsoft Copilot in Azure, which is a devops tool. Clear as mud!

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Copilot

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitHub_Copilot

    https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/copilot

    • rendaw55 minutes ago
      Oh wow, I wish they'd adopt that strategy to clarify the mess that is .net, .net framework, .net core, .net standard, and .net.
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  • vo2maxer1 hour ago
    I’m trying to understand why the sentiment in many of the comments is one of near outrage. Is this based on the atavistic hatred of Microsoft or is there a cogent position on why this is a noxious implementation?
  • whobre48 minutes ago
    I remember the time when Microsoft was rebranding everything as “.NET”. Lasted for a couple of years and then they moved on to a different hype.
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  • kwertyoowiyop42 minutes ago
    How about “Microsoft Blob”?
  • fckmsft322 hours ago
    Microsoft 365 Copilot .NET 4.0 SP2
    • kalleboo1 hour ago
      Needs more MSN and Live in there somewhere
  • 486sx332 hours ago
    Boo copilot integration Microsoft’s path to monetization of their chat gpt “partnership”
  • blackeyeblitzar5 hours ago
    At some point the FTC and DOJ really need to split up these huge companies to stop this bundling of separate products to block out any competition.
    • dialup_sounds3 hours ago
      All they did here was change the name.
      • evanjrowley3 hours ago
        So that the next generation will never know there was such a thing as a local-first office suite free from invasive AI.
    • bdangubic5 hours ago
      easy solution - just don’t use windows
      • smt883 hours ago
        Hundreds of millions of people are required by their employer to use Windows
        • bdangubic1 hour ago
          yup, in which case this is a simple corporate issue. what does one care about what windows bundles together if this is OS and software provided to you for work?! if I was insane enough to work for such a company (am not) I would want them to bundle 100 things together, pile it on - flight attendant to the copilot to the copilot… :)
        • 38362936481 hour ago
          Milions of soldiers are required by their employer to shoot and kill people.

          That their employer said so doesn't make it moral or ok. Using Windows is always wrong. Using Chrome is always wrong.

          • smt881 hour ago
            It's childish, privileged, and detached from reality to tell people to quit literally their entire career to avoid using Windows or Chrome. There are industries (not just single companies) that use Windows.

            The degree of moral purity is only possible for people who are already rich or willing to be a burden on the rest of society by being unemployed.

          • vo2maxer1 hour ago
            How are these claims any different than saying: Buying groceries in any supermarket chain is always wrong; buying an automobile from any of the large car makers is always wrong?
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  • Havoc2 hours ago
    Well excel is going to continue to excel.

    ...everything else in office is in danger of getting AI crammed into it diagonally whether it needs it or not.

    • fckmsft322 hours ago
      The competency crisis will also affect Excel down the line, just like it's affecting Boeing spaceships and planes and everything else the new demographics touch.
  • nixosbestos3 hours ago
    so, what about leap years?
  • zfg4 hours ago
    An alternative to Microsoft Office is LibreOffice. It's pretty good:

    https://www.libreoffice.org/

  • svilen_dobrev3 hours ago
    so, Clippy again?