Microsoft's desperation is getting embarrassing.

This is pretty unacceptable in so many ways.

Facebook should do bring your Meta glasses to work day for all the companies that are not as hip as they are.

Some companies might have IT departments that blocked X. Elon should buy xatwork.com or better yet use twimg.com to serve X but only at your workplace.

PirateBay is probably blocked at many workplaces. That's pretty backwards thinking. I think PirateBay should focus on creating more alternative frontends to bring back torrenting at work.

CloudFlare should smuggle in WARP so that you can tunnel out of your workplace.

Could put some cloud policies in place for IT departments to maintain control if they want.

This should be a strike against MS's trustworthiness, if true. A lot of workplaces are hesitant to utilise AI models due to privacy or sensitivity concerns.

The KPIs of some random Microsoft middle manager trumps customer priorities. They have a quota to meet!

But to play the Devil's advocate: back in the good old days, before Google was a thing, I would go out to customer sites and they would ask me with a straight face "why I needed the Internet?" to do my job. (These days I just tether to my phone, but this was long before that was a viable option.)

Soon, access to AIs will be like access to Google: mandatory for getting your work done to an acceptable standard in a reasonable time.

Those that fight against this are trying to hold the tide back with a broom.

Bring Your Clippy to Home Day

> Samer Baroudi, senior product marketing manager at Microsoft, insists this is for your own good. > > "This offers a safer alternative to other bring-your-own-AI scenarios, and empowers users with Copilot in their daily jobs while keeping IT firmly in control and all enterprise data protections intact," Baroudi explained in a blog post.

whew. they seem to be confusing exactly who the customer is here. they think their target customer is the everyday windows user, but in reality the customer is every company's internal IT and infosec teams. theyre trying to persuade regular users to use the product, bit these users will in turm need to persuade their IT teams before this product can be used. big mix up for microsoft.

If Copilot was so great, surely I would have been asked to opt-in to a better Office 365 family plan with Copilot enabled, rather than trying to dark-pattern me into paying for a more expensive Copilot-enabled plan against my will (forcing me to attempt to cancel in order to be offered my old plan).

It probably doesn't help that Microsoft is using 'Copilot' to mean so many different things - their Office AI integration, Github's Copilot thing, some laptops now apparently - so that users who know what's going on get irritated and ones that don't get confused.

They did exactly this in the early days of computing, having people who bought microcomputers run DOS and set up ad job networks etc. then later, IT had to formalize it and support it.

Recall was my final straw.