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Microsoft invested heavily in cloud, when LLM's came it was an obvious way to increase profits if they made everyone use their cloud for "AI". I don't think they realize just how much of the current LLM hype is just that, hype. I think they will be severely burned.

Yes, LLM's are useful and valuable, but no, they won't be replacing major sections of the workforce any time soon. I don't need an LLM in every facet of my operating system, just like I didn't need Cortana integrated everywhere in Windows 8. And LLM's are obviously not worth the billions upon billions that are being invested currently.

Nanoraptor kindly fixed their logos for them: https://bsky.app/profile/nanoraptor.danamania.com/post/3mbif...

My mother who was an avid user of Microsoft Office recently asked me what Microsoft 365 Copilot was and whether it has any impact on her plans to upgrade her laptop. I told her to buy a Mac and look at Pages/Libre Office.

Good screw them. They put a god damn button on the keyboard for their crap AI. Everyone just uses the smartest AI and has zero loyalty to your garbage AI. Look how quickly Meta abandoned open-source AI when they got behind.

Windows 11 is bloated, loaded with telemetry, won't stop nagging you about OneDrive and Office365 and now mandates sign-in with a Microsoft account while forcing 400+ million devices to not have security updates.

I'm willing to bet most of Microsoft's engineers are using Claude, not their own garbage.

Reminds me of when the xbox one came out and everyone was calling it the X bone because it had no games and cost a million bux.

Microslopt seems a better fit.

Maybe with a German accept :-)

The only way AI is going to kill me is by reading all the constant negative bullshit about “slop”. Seriously, it seems like a quarter of the posts on HN now are bitching about AI. If you don’t like it in Microsoft products, install Linux. I’m now running a fully Microsoft free house for the first time ever. It’s not that hard.

Nobody wants intrusive ai in their productivity apps, especially if it's enforced. But as long as we keep using their apps they'll keep pushing for it. So important to try alternatives (eg ddocs.new instead of word / brave instead of edge / proton mail instead of outlook)

I mean, they wanted to put "AI" on everything, knowing "AI" is not AI. Could "there is no such thing as bad publicity" apply here? At least they're trending, don't they?