Spreading hate, fear, causing death, and violating every social standard of consent while they do it.
Something ugly has been grown in the bowels of the bay and it needs to stop.
But with all technology eventually society catches up and the wild west is over.
Truly a shortsighted CEO and company
It's infuriating that you can't even minimize it or close it. I love One Note, use it for work constantly and it's great for tracking meetings, notes, to do lists, vendor contacts, whatever. Now there's a giant COPILOT icon in the middle of the notebook and you can't move it, close it or minimize it. There's no way to disable it entirely. I'd be find if it were in the dropdown menu but shoved into the middle of the page is so aggravating, it's blocking my actual work and text.
Privately I use obsidian with self hosted livesync which is amazing. But at work I have to use Copilot. In some ways I don't mind it in onenote because it actually succeeds in finding stuff the search function doesn't. Syncing to mobile often doesn't work right either.
To me it's the worst O365 app and the one I need the most :(
I'd be fascinated by anyone from the Office team to tell me why Microsoft can't get global search right in their products.
E.g. SharePoint has had broken search for decades at this point (on multiple entirely different platforms of the product!)
It's a solved technical problem -- it's just like no one at MS cares.
The way I set it up I don't find myself searching for things much as I know the way it's organized to quickly find things I need.
Fwiw I have that at work and IMO it's not worth that much. It's more useful than the free one but nothing game changing.
'... it'd be a lot cooler if you did.'
Despite all this they still have a hugely profitable business, a pretty decent OS under all the adware, and a defacto monopoly on business productivity software.
The AI stuff is definitely terrible, but I turned it off a long time ago and never see it, it's another thing I don't understand the outrage about. The FUD about it getting reactivated hasn't come to pass for me.
There's a lot of people that actually started migrating to Mac / Linux when Windows 10 went EOL recently.
And the list goes on, I just don't remember every single UI regression issue I've encountered right away. But Win11 is clearly bad. Not the awful bad, but annoying bad daily.
I hope that means they’re planning to pivot away from it. ;)
Is this blog post perfectly timed for some financially important event, anual report, investors meeting or something? I'm very curious to know.
Why not
