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   Kemotep :de_gouges:🔰 (kemotep@mastodo.neoliber.al)'s status on Sunday, 19-Jan-2025 21:29:28 JST Kemotep :de_gouges:🔰

   • Kevin Beaumont

   @GossiTheDog

   My job got a 1 year free trial of the Office Copilot. It’s so awful, I don’t think I have used it for months now.

   The sales pitch was that you could point it at some spreadsheets and pdfs or whatever and then say, make me a PowerPoint presentation for Q3 blah blah blah. I tried taking an audit report and seeing if it could do that and it couldn’t. Hours wasted trying to coax the thing. Nothing useable. Like the most garbage output ever.

   What is copilot even capable of? Anything?

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     Dave 🐶 (cyberoutsider@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 19-Jan-2025 21:46:09 JST Dave 🐶

     • Kevin Beaumont

     @GossiTheDog @kemotep Pretty much every sales pitch for similar AI capabilities are contradictory.

     Feature 1: Bulk out stuff because you think it looks more professional to add a bunch of unnecessary words.
     Feature 2: Summarise stuff because you think it's been bulked out unnecessarily and you don't want to wade through all the unnecessary words.

     Even the 'summarise Teams meetings' capability is a cover up from the fact that people have forgotten how to properly chair and run meetings. Advertised AI capabilities are a sticking plaster over other poor habits rather than addressing root problems.

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     Andreas (ixs@mastodon.bawue.social)'s status on Sunday, 19-Jan-2025 22:09:01 JST Andreas

     • Kevin Beaumont

     @GossiTheDog Two? Way more.

     First there was GitHub Copilot, the OG Copilot. And that seemingly was successful at what it did.

     And because GitHub is a limited-integrated MSFT property, they of course kept the name and reused it EVERYWHERE where there is a search form.
     The did change the icon though.

     So now you got Azure Copilot, M365 Copilot, Windows Copilot, Bing Copilot and of couse bare Copilot. Neither of which is GitHub Copilot.

     The thing I do not understand though is, why there is no Microsoft Flightsimulator Copilot.
     That would make sense.

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     Matt Hardy 3.11 for Workgroups (technicaladept@awscommunity.social)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 05:09:31 JST Matt Hardy 3.11 for Workgroups

     • Kevin Beaumont

     @GossiTheDog Discover last month that microsoft offer two entirely dissimilar products called microsoft service fabric and microsoft fabric service.

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     Kevin Beaumont (gossithedog@cyberplace.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 01:55:01 JST Kevin Beaumont

     Pretty funny, just realised I removed Office from my PCs at home as I thought I was removing Copilot, since they've renamed both things Copilot.

     In other news, I've realised I can cancel my Office 365 sorry Microsoft 365 sorry Microsoft 365 Copilot subscription as I clearly don't use it much. Thank you Microsoft Copilot for teaching me to give you less money.

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