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Microslop, indeed
Last year they announced a price increase to the 365 subscription along with adding copilot features.
It turned out that they had actually kept the non-copilot version at the original price as a hidden "legacy" subscription.
So they were just tricking people into paying for the copilot upgrade.
MicroSlop 365 CoPileofShit, more like it
Lol. Please everyone contribute to the change you want to see. If you're not sharing spreadsheets and slide decks in a team, then for personal use you should be good with Collabora (LibreOffice based). It's great. Write your novel and short stories in Collabora
The Onion?
One could only wish; as fucked up as it sounds, it’s real.
Microslop has outdone itself beyond measure.
OnlyOffice and LibreOffice are still called OnlyOffice and LibreOffice.
When you ask the copilot to do a 365...
IIRC this happened in January of 2025. The rebrand obviously failed because I don't know a single person who calls it anything other than "Office" or "Microsoft Office".
In reality the copilot is not their ai, it is the user!! They drain every single click, data, keyboard input, every mouse mouvements for a while now. The strategy is to train an ai to replace the worker. The copilot is you.
Microslop 365 Copislop
This renaming happened for the Office app a while back, but now they've applied it to Office itself? It is April 1st already?
Wasn't there a report a week or two back saying that they cut their internal sales targets by 50% because no one was using copilot? They must be desperate to abandon decades of branding they have built up.
Right after I learn about how much of a failure Copilot has been, and they do this. I'm not surprised, but man.
Microsoft: We can't find anyone who likes Copilot.
Also Microsoft: Let's rebrand our only well-received products as Copilot.
You can call it trash can, garbage bin, wheely bin,dumpster, it's all the same, putting lipstick on a pig, it will still be a pig
For those required to use Ai in their job would this count then?
This may be the strategy. 90% of all business users use copilot daily (after we renamed their coffeemachine and the kitchen sink to copilot)