Former Microsoft VP says Microsoft missed the AI wave like the internet and mobile, as Copilot scales back in Windows 11
2026-05-17 18:35 UTC
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@reddig33@lemmy.world 2026-05-17 22:08
You didn’t miss the “mobile wave”. You purposely gave up. Idiots.
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@M0oP0o@mander.xyz 2026-05-18 03:28
Wave? This is like being sad you did not get in on the housing crisis, or the dot com bubble, or any other clearly labeled landmine.
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@madcaesar@lemmy.world 2026-05-17 22:20
If Microsoft wasn’t run by tools, they’d see the gap Google and Apple have left behind by locking down their eco systems. They could be the hero we need by saying we’ll make the software and you fully own your device like pc / windows. But of course they won’t, and will just shoot themselves in the dick. Just like when they ditched explorer we were all like yaay! Then instead of attaching to Firefox they just became another chromium cuck. Why would anyone take your shitty browser that’s just a skin of chrome… Again, they had the chance to take the pro customer lane and succeed, but they were too inept.
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@SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 2026-05-18 05:49
They should add much more AI. Why? Cause it’s really funny to watch from the outside as a Linux user.
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@Bytemeister@lemmy.world 2026-05-18 06:23
Are you really being “left behind” when everyone else is going the wrong way? I’m really baffled because this is super easy to fix. Step 1. Pull all the AI bloat out of Windows 11. Make a clean, compatible, and user friendly OS out of the Windows brand. Step 2. Spin CoPilot into it’s own OS. Go crazy with your “Every app is just a different AI presentation of your data.” Make the AI in there all powerful. Allow users to remote to the OS and run the same AI regardless of the platform. Step 3. Print money
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@87Six@lemmy.zip 2026-05-18 08:00
ah, today will be a good day lads
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@ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 2026-05-17 19:51
What wave? None of it fucking works…
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@zeroConnection@programming.dev 2026-05-17 20:10
I don’t know how Microslop is managing to stay around. They haven’t been at the front of any tech innovations since Windows. And Windows have steadily been going downhill too. I guess they are still around because they somehow convinced most corporations to use Windows back in the early days when it was good and the switch to Linux has been slow because everything now depends on windows in those corporations and switching is expensive.
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@judgyweevil@feddit.it 2026-05-17 19:00
It’s a wave of sewage, few users want to ride it in the first place
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@mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 2026-05-18 02:51
scales back? I just got an update that puts a persistent copilot overlay in the corner of Excel, blocking my cells. and the same update seems to have added a context menu that shows up on left click on a squiggle word in Word, which again blocks my document unnecessarily. I use neither of these features. I want neither of these features. I want to use the fucking program to do my goddamn work
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@egrets@lemmy.world 2026-05-17 21:20
The article touches on a bunch of valid points, but re the headline, I don’t really think that a failure to generate excitement about AI integration into Windows 11 is because they missed the boat. It’s because they’re shoehorning it into places it doesn’t belong. They have the ability to make it useful. Ethical concerns aside, GitHub Copilot is as good as any AI development assistant, and better than most. Hopes that they’d gain ground with Bing would have needed them to be way ahead of the curve (and for AI search result summaries to be more useful than the top results, which they rarely are). But for Copilot to be useful in the desktop environment, it needs to be there quietly in the places it’s needed. Improve your help tools, make Grammarly irrelevant, infer document context to make search better. Don’t rename half of your products “Copilot”, don’t put flashy buttons in every app, just use the benefits of applied AI to improve your products. Oh, and make it optional, for fuck’s sake. If I don’t feel like I have control over my OS any more, I’m not likely to stick around when other options are available.
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@Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-05-18 10:03
The more logical explanation is that AI is not a wave like the Internet and Mobile, but it is instead a wave like cryptocurrencies, NFTs and tulip bulbs. If there’s one thing that almost 3 decades at or near the forefront of Tech has taught me is that “novel” is not the same as “better”, and that of all the times a novel technology was pushed by insane amounts of hype, only a handful turned out to match the hype and the ratio of good-ones to bullshit has become much worse in the last 2 decades as the Tech Startup sector fully morphed from Techie-driven to Financeer-driven. On hype alone “AI” (as in, what’s called now AI for the public, rather than the ML domain) stinks of greed-driven bullshit and the more one analyses the Technical details of LLMs and the Mathematics of it as well as of the improvements over time, the more painfully obvious it becomes that it’s not at all AGI or a path to it, rather it’s an overhyped attempt at it that turned out to be the wrong path. (All of which would’ve been absolutelly fine and a big Scientific step forward if it weren’t for the greedy financeer class and grifters pushing, purelly for their own personal enrichment, for people and companies to adopted it for doing things it’s not suitable for)
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@lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2026-05-18 12:28
The “AI wave” is a scam. Everyone missed the AI wave because it sucks at everything except making slop.