Microsoft advertising Copilot on lock screens
Microsoft advertising Copilot on lock screens
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I would be mad too if an off-centered ad suddenly appeared on my lock screen.
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I would have run a malware scan
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Things like this make me glad I don't use Windows.
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It invaded my Swiftkey keyboard with no permission and zero warning today (Obviously I realize that I probably gave it permission for shenanigans when I accepted the SwiftKey terms and conditions).
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Man, Microsoft's purchase of SwiftKey still bugs me.
It's frustrating that after so many years, there's still no open source mobile keyboard where you can "import" your typing history from multiple sources to tailor autocomplete to your own "voice".
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While Google also has problems, it was a pretty smooth switch from SwiftKey to google keyboard (years ago for me to be fair)
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That is an absurdly large QR code. I recently switched to MacOS (I know Linux exists and it’s not for me) so I’m glad I’m away from this kind of nonsense.
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My love is for Linux, and my job gives me a Mac. I'm pretty happy. My first time using a Mac full time. I'm blown away how much it's not a piece of shit like windows has become. Windows just feels like a sinking ship with bandaids all over it and slow to do anything. Christ the calculator app has a loading screen. A 386 should be able to load the windows 10 calculator app in a nanosecond. What is it really doing? Gobbling up and packaging past calculations to copilot for analysis or some shit. Ridiculous.
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I wonder how long it'll take Microsoft to completely ruin their reputation with companies again after they took so long to recover it.
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Business is entrenched. There's no getting away from them.
Look at the VMware fiasco, companies will continue to pay their extortionist prices because it's still less than paying for, and risking transition.
Also, in business, Group Policy is used, preventing this sort of thing.
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As I understand it, most companies are making transition plans away from VMware. A lot of contracts are multi-year, and transistioning your virtual infrastructure is one hell of a project if you have any amount of complexity to your infrastructure.
It's also one of those types of projects that is likely to be pushed down in priority whenever there's fires to fight. The price hike is absolutely insane, but in the balance of things it might be better business sense to keep paying while you investigate alternatives and migration plans.
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Unfortunately Group Policy isn't bullet proof, Microsoft has a history of sneaking in "features" like this as part of an update, but without any corresponding policy to disable it.
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When that happened, Microsoft can fix their reputation again by buying more popular open source companies again. Nothing money can't fix. Maybe they'll buy Canonical next.
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Mistral AI currently. They're just a minority currently but I doubt it'll stay that way.
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Why is there this push to use AI everywhere when it's so resource-heavy? What do Google, MS etc gain?
Data mining.
I wonder how it can be worth the extra cost on CPU/GPU time, compared to search of mail.
I might type "best value Jacuzzi" into Google, but "write a python script to sort numbers", or "write a message sounding like I'm actually sorry to not go to someone's party", or "this sentence is a lie" into an AI.
I can only see one of those being valuable.
This AI "revolution" has me so turned off. "hi there, here at coffee shop X we use"AI"". Um. Ok. Neat. Does it do anything different?
Even Chatgpt is hit and miss. I'm not buying into this AI thing until we have cylons.
It doesn't actually need to make money at the moment, just drive value for shareholders.
Data is the new oil.