There are also ever changing, inscrutable licensing schemes, and too many similarly named products. It's impossible to know what to buy or how much it is going to cost.

This is even before you get to the quality of the product itself. I mean, part of the reason people aren't using it because it is hard to buy and use.

Perhaps this and also filling onedrive free space with random noise, to waste MS some storage in addition to CPU/GPU cycles.

After working for a few weeks at high hourly rate, produce a report. Then grift the next suites.

Now, Copilot (the assistant, not the GitHub coding one) is hot garbage compared to Claude/ChatGPT but that’s another story.

> Employees now have to work longer hours or risk getting fired.

Bahahaha. In the best of all possible worlds.

Likely reality: Leaders say you're using the tools wrong, figure it out.

Employees: OK, so we train on the tools after hours?

Leaders: No.

Employees: Before hours?

Leaders: No.

Employees: During lunch?

Leaders: No.

Employees: Then when are we supposed to learn how to use the bloody tools?

Leaders: You're just going to have to figure that out for yourself.

Source: Happened to my mom when they moved from mainframe to Web-based at the insurance company.

I'm using AI for some coding here and there, and I'm using it replacing certain kinds of questions I would previously have googled. So I'm certainly not against using AI at all. (We have a ChatGPT subscription.)

But, as a MS 365 Global Admin for a small business (ca. 50 people), I know what most of the many part of the MS eco system do. I use at least a dozen of their various service sites and tools throughout the week. I know what Entra is and does, Exchange (Admin), Teams, Defender (security website, not the installed tool), I'm not even going to mention the well-known Office apps, Azure, SharePoint, etc.

But when they try to get me to use Copilot, I never know what it is supposed to do for me? It just says "Copilot", and? Yes I could read and check and test what it is about. Maybe I will, some day. For now, every one of the services that I as Unix person had to discover for myself over the last year I had a clear goal before I went there, and I knew why I wanted to use a particular service. That's not true for Copilot, and my general AI background knowledge even as at least daily casual AI user I have no idea what to expect. I'm just not motivated to go there and do all the work of motivating myself myself.

For me, the problem is they market "Copilot" and not a function I want. That is too broad and too vague. If they just used it as part of the regular workflows, like Google did when they introduced AI answers, I would already be using it.

Instead of relying on users desire to use specific functionality, they seem to think users want "AI", what for exactly is secondary. But I want functions first, and don't care how they implement it, as long as it works.

PS: Oh and of course I'm afraid that if I start using any Copilot related stuff I may accidentally add something to our company's monthly bill. Which I only do when I actually need something, e.g. a new Office 365 Business Standard license. I don't want to pay for something I don't feel any need for, since the existing tools are already far more than enough.

Food for thought: If Microsoft is already monitoring this, maybe they could help automatically remove the big boss from the meeting?

Not that I really care though.