Copilot is such trash. Used it with my daughters project on Amerigo Vespucci. Copilot linked me to Christopher Columbus’ journeys. Gemini linked me to the actual information and even in Geminis own search results, the Microsoft one was wrong.
I hated using AI but come on. If you are going to destroy the planet micro slop, at least do it well.
Man this guy looks like a husk of curses.
I use the office apps for college and I avoid the AI, its annoying, it pops up and im usually saying " wtf is this" no i need a blank document
OS takes a screenshot every five seconds. CEO: “Damn, look how much it is being used!” /s
“A lot” is a great, quantifiable metric there, computer man! 👍👍👍📈💯🍾
The article mentions concrete numbers for the different Copilot products.
A Microsoft spokesperson tells TechCrunch that this number has grown to 150 million total.
150 million, what?
Individual users, prompts, prompts per second, accounts, installs, subscriptions bought?
Numbers on their own have no meaning. This is still rubbish trying to cosplay as information. Active copilot users means nothing until explained how the number is calculated.
I just rebuilt my Win 11 Pro Workstation setup (yes, it is the version for stupidly high core and thread counts), and one of the first things I did was to violently eviscerate anything AI in the system. Right after gleefully ripping out all the telemetry and spyware.
Won’t all of that just reinstall itself after the next update?
In my experience, no if properly debloated.
You stopped a bit short on your delete spree I guess.
But then again, I don’t know your workflow and needs; so I’m glad it works for you.
You stopped a bit short on your delete spree I guess.
No, that was just the first two steps. Just on the “rip shit out” category, I typically churn through at least three separate tools, usually in this order:
- Win10Privacy
- Win11Debloat
- Winslop
I mean, sure, Windows can take as little as a half hour to “install”. But on a personal rig (which also includes my own workflow software and personal data shoehorned back into place), I take another 24-48 hours to gleefully beat it into submission and install secondary programs that bypass the warts it has acquired over the years.
And as a benchmark, XP needed only about 6-8hrs of extra work to reach the same threshold of data migration, workflow software, and improved usability (I was an NT fanboy, IMO the primary improvement of XP over 2000 was the start menu).
If we add up the AI push, the spyware/telemetry explosion, the recent attempts to force the use of a Microsoft Account as the default login, and the massive bloating and instability of Windows in general, it’s slowly becoming time for even non-technical, everyday users to move to Linux.
Well yeah, you rename a core product to Copilot and suddenly you have tons of users
They have like 7 different, separate, copilots 😆
Yeah cause when I instinctively click the Microsoft learn link below the Azure error it takes me to copilot instead of documentation.
Ohh, that would be all the developers at jobs with daily AI use quotas running scheduled scripts to make it look like they are using AI so they don’t lose their jobs.
This is literally just wasting electricity to justify the existence of massive datacenters full of nvidia videocards.
I ask copilot bullshit that I don’t even read sometimes just so it looks like I’m using ai more. Because my employer demands it and will start tracking AI usage for perf evals!
Great system we have going, here.
Create a loop of copilot talking with itself using the copilot CLI 😉
This is slowly becoming very much like USSR.
I once liked saying that with capitalism and computers one can build anything, including what people rejecting capitalism (and sometimes rejecting computers) can.
So-o, yes. Anything. Including that.
I used it for my first time this year. For like a week. That was all.
Then you’re part of “monthly active Copilot users” - at least for that month
Indeed. Haven’t touched it since
Probably GitHub Copilot.
The rest just sucks.
Because they keep cramming it in all my apps at work and every time I load my email, it tries to open Copilot?
Yea, sure. They’re unwilling “active users” because they accidentally click on some copilot garbage that’s been shoved into every inch of Windows. While I see plenty of folks using various AI tools, none of those tools are copilot.
Oh no you should not say slop it hurts feelings.
Clanker-wankers don’t have feelings
Hurt shareholders, you mean?
Feelings.
Shareholders have feelings?
Because Slopya has been shoving it down our throats everywhere. Office, Windows, GitHub,…
