Microslop is confused that the people forced to pay for shitty software won't pony up for the optional shitty software.

Insufficient demand means insufficient return on investment, so of course prices need to go up to make up the shortfall.

And in another story on my feed, we have a trillionaire with the opposite problem, where there's too much demand, so of course, prices need to go up to reduce demand.

This is a good time to remind everyone of LibreOffice, which is free and fantastic.

Also O&O ShutUp, which helps you turn off Windows' intrusive anti-privacy features and delete Copilot. If you'd like to learn more I made a video about Windows privacy earlier this year.

I remember 15 years ago when I needed to reformat my Windows PC and called Microsoft to ask how to import my Office account onto my clean install. They informed me that I already used my 'backup' copy when I reformatted last, and I would need to buy a new copy of Office in order to get it running on the same machine again.

OR, they had this 'Special Deal' for Office 365 where I could spend 1/2 as much money that day and re-download it as many times as I need! I confirmed with them that I lost my access for software I've had for years and that even with their 'best deal', I can only rent it back from them and I'd be right back in the same boat in two years. I asked how that was any better and the guy 'helping me' didn't know what to say.

Unsurprisingly, I'm posting from a Linux machine and use LibreOffice now.

More proof that "supply and demand" was made up the whole time

We are encouraged to use CoPilot at work and i hate it

I mean, did anyone expect anything different? The frontier providers that Copilot depends on switched to token-based billing in a desperate and ludicrous attempt to somehow turn a profit on AI, so of course Microsoft is gonna jack up their prices too.

Copilot is the new clippy in word and it's annoying.

On occasion there will be an invisible window on the primary monitor in which no windows applications response. I will have paint open on the primary monitor and about 2/3 of the window won't register the brush to paint in it. Found it it is copilot related and if you close it in the task bar things start working again.

Fuck copilot

You'd think they would have learned this lesson with clippy. Instead they made Clippy 2

But let's sack half of id software in response

Microsoft claim there's over one billion Windows 11 users though... So wouldn't 4.5 % still be huge?

I really wish I knew to what extent they retasked engineers to work on that pile of shit copilot rather than maintaining and improving the rest of their portfolio. In recent weeks alone, I have provisioned a Windows 365 box that mysteriously randomly showed up in São Paulo Brazil, despite the account and everything else being based in the US. Intune Controls erroring out every click when I tried to set policy to fix it. I have had OneDrive zip files, almost always corrupt, regardless of end point or network connection.

I couldn’t even change a billing payment method without going through support on another case, and all of this adds to the infuriating addition of friction and clicks to get to the old fucking apps at office.com. All this from the same company that brought you windows server 2012 when tablets were released and took away the start menu as if all of us were going to start running our data centers on fucking tablets.

On top, no less, of Microsoft proactively going out of their way to spy on Windows users and forward their information to law-enforcement without them being under investigation and without a warrant.

Enshitification surely is a thing, but at $1 trillion company scale is just absolutely fucking wild.

They just can't launch a product can they? I mean if you look back:

Vista: "oh shit! Oh shit! Quickly, course correct!!!" And then w7 made it a little better.

W8: FUCK!! Again?!!!! Then there was the service packs and it was ok.

And now this. When is it going to be the moment? You'd think they would've course corrected by now instead of doubling down so viciously.

Isn’t copilot one of the worst LLMs anyways? Why should people pay for it?

Probably because it's not very useful.

Not a fan of Copilot but how is it only 4.5%

They literally changed every single Office 365 Subscription to add a $30 Copilot subscription. You have to pretend to cancel to change it back

Did that many people really threaten to cancel?!

Strange, I thought that paying more and more to get, in most cases, less and less was a good business move.

I tried to use M365 (CoPilot) with a seemingly simple task - take a Word doc with a form and populate it with some example data. It took several minutes to think, and then fifteen or so more to complete.

"Co-pilot" made me switch back from 365 to the "One-time purchase Office Home 2024".

Adoption can't be forced with price increases.

I really wanted to make copilot work. Spent hours and hours hoping I was the problem and I could prompt it well enough to provide something useful in return. At this point I'd rather have the old Microsoft Paperclip help me.

I genuinely think AI is useful for about 2% more adoption of things than was going on before. 2% more coders, 2% more artists (for whatever that’s worth which isn’t a lot), just 2%.

The thing with Copilot is... it's pretty useless. I mean, i am pro AI, i use Mistral daily for various tasks and toyed with others like ChatGPT and Grok, but Copilot is surely the least capable of the big models.

What's even behind it? I always assumed openAI given the early investment deal. Is Microsoft an AI vendor with their own frontier models?!

5%? Dont tell Linux desktop

That's because out of all the slop canons, it's the only one that just doesnt work

Just "upgraded" to win11. The first thing I did was uninstall 365 and copilot. As long as I draw breath I will never use the crap.

O and one drive... Never.

They probably would have gone up even higher if more people were using it due to infrastructure costs. For now they’re trying to recoup R&D and figuring out if they can repurpose the compute they have.

and that's probably worse than that as many, like everyone in my group, got this license to try it and we all hated it… we are trying to cancel these licenses to save money as they are useless for us