• Brewchin@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    Microslop going full “the beatings will continue until morale improves” with their ensloppification of everything they touch, I see.

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      22 days ago

      They’re already changing the name of MS Office to “Microsoft Copilot App”. So when you use Copilot inside Microsoft Office on Windows, you’ll be running Copilot in the Copilot App on Copilot OS.

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        20 days ago

        “Microsoft Windows App” confused the shit out of me earlier. I only realised it was Remote Desktop when I read the description, and I only did that because I was wondering what the fuck Microsoft Windows App is.

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      21 days ago

      “I know we said Windows 10 would be the last version of Windows you’d need, but we really mean it this time with Windows 11. Introducing our new operating system… Compost, I mean, Copilot!”

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      22 days ago

      Users: File search should not be this bad
      Microsoft: How about this bad?

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      20 days ago

      You don’t understand … you have to talk to file explorer and convince it you really need that file and then talk it into searching for it. (Makes sense … would YOU like to go into onedrive and try to find something ???)

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    22 days ago

    Explorer already crashes enough without this.

    Why don’t they work on Explorer’s awful performance and constant hanging before working in another chatbot?

    You know, useful software development work?

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      22 days ago

      Because there aren’t any developers in charge any more. At places like MS and Google now promotions are given to people who make a big splash. Fixing a bug doesn’t get attention.

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    21 days ago

    The thing is that if MS concentrated on providing a bulletproof experience, a sane licensing mode, with a low, cheap, entry bar, they would just keep being the top dog forever.

    Now they are just giving market share to Linux and MacOS for free.

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      20 days ago

      it really is wild that they’re pushing away so many people, who otherwise would just sit with them forever, just because profits must always increase

      like all they have to do is stop making things worse and people will stay with them and continue joining them. that’s literally all they have to do. and they can’t do it.

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        20 days ago

        Most public companies and governments focus entirely on short term wins with zero consideration for the future.
        Microslop is no different.

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      The current version of macOS, Tahoe, is also atrocious. It’s completely unusable on a desktop, it feels like they want to make it work like an iPad.

      For the better or worse, the only good OS is now Linux.

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        Well, the only piece of Apple tech I currently own is an iPad. I bought the thing through a pretty nice offer from my telco, and for a pretty specific use case, running the Affinity suite on the move without lugging my beefy laptop around.

        When I saw how they went full idiot with their glass shit for the UI (hellooo, Windows Aero), I stopped allowing updates. The fact that to reduce transparency and effects to make the thing half usable you have to go into accessibility settings says it all.

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    22 days ago

    Soon in the Microslop support forums: “Please help, I asked Copilot for the photos of my late grandma and it deleted my entire C drive”.

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      The agent has decided you need more OneDrive storage. Your credit card will be charged. If you disagree with the agent, grandma’s pictures will be deleted. Comply and rent Batman the Dark Knight Arises on the Windows Store.

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      21 days ago

      It probably “saw” the trash icon somewhere and some “deep thought” model concluded that erasing everything was a good idea.

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      21 days ago

      I’m surprised at this. If I was given the job to fuck up windows, I wouldn’t be able to get such ludicrous ideas

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    22 days ago

    It’s metastasizing. There must really be big profit and privacy-invading upsides for MS in this whole mess, since it sure as shit is not being driven by consumer demand.

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      22 days ago

      Imagine knowing what every user is doing? What they read, what they play? What pictures they take? What websites they prefer? Where they get their news? Who they speak with? Their social graph? Where they shop? How often? What their finances look like? Who they work for? What they do for them? How connected they are? How that company is doing? What their quarterly report look like before they make it public? What their plans are for those upcoming layoffs? Who they do business with for importing? What the next big thing they’re designing is?

      What Microsoft is attempting to do is to create a planned economy that only benefits the rich. They’re trying to do the thing they always complain is bad about Communism, but do it in a way that gives the rich people control.

      We are living in a trap and Microsoft must be eradicated from all computers and networks. OpenAI too.

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      22 days ago

      There are thousands of data brokers but we don’t really know to who Evil corp is selling data