I wonder how much competitors benefit from simply Not Being The OS Company, and whether that also influences Bing in the search-engine space.
If someone has very personal or embarrassing questions, they might prefer not to go to someone that "knows them" in other ways. (In this case, by bludgeoning Windows users into to making a Microsoft Account to use their computer, and collecting "telemetry.")
wolvoleo•1mo ago
Google will know a lot more about most people. Because everything is in their cloud. Than the provider of your local OS. Doesn't seem to hurt Gemini though.
And really, Copilot the chatbot on web and windows (specifying because there's too many Copilot products to count) kinda sucks anyway. Especially the free version. It's notably worse than chatgpt even though it's just chatgpt. Whatever they're doing it, they're screwing it up.
I don't understand why Microsoft is trying so hard to promote a service that isn't even theirs, but then again edge isn't actually their own browser either. It seems to be that getting the brand name out there is the main thing they care about.
simulator5g•1mo ago
I think its more about how Microsoft forces features on people. Remember when Apple gave everyone a free album? People hated it because they didn't ask for it. Users who manually download the album, the AI, the browser, etc are more likely to use it.
mc32•1mo ago
The web maybe but given MS (and Google) "give away" their A.I. product with their productivity suite bundles, it's hard to know the actual usage --author admits to not being able to measure that.
rk06•1mo ago
what, you mean pushing AI down people throat is not a good idea?
Terr_•1mo ago
If someone has very personal or embarrassing questions, they might prefer not to go to someone that "knows them" in other ways. (In this case, by bludgeoning Windows users into to making a Microsoft Account to use their computer, and collecting "telemetry.")
wolvoleo•1mo ago
And really, Copilot the chatbot on web and windows (specifying because there's too many Copilot products to count) kinda sucks anyway. Especially the free version. It's notably worse than chatgpt even though it's just chatgpt. Whatever they're doing it, they're screwing it up.
I don't understand why Microsoft is trying so hard to promote a service that isn't even theirs, but then again edge isn't actually their own browser either. It seems to be that getting the brand name out there is the main thing they care about.
simulator5g•1mo ago