Microsoft sells Copilot to the world — but its own engineers don’t use it
Microsoft sells Copilot to the world — but its own engineers don’t use it
Microsoft sells Copilot to the world — but its own engineers don’t use it
Microsoft sells Copilot to the world — but its own engineers don’t use it
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The issue is Microsoft recruit people too smart to even consider using Microsoft products 😂
Can you imagine their CEO using Microsoft at home? “Yeah this is… this is great! I love what Microsoft has become!” No you don’t.
Well… they TRY to sell Copilot to the world… nobody wants it though.
They need a new CEO or they’ll end up pushing everyone to Linux or Mac
I don’t even know what it’s supposed to do.
most people where i work don’t even use our own ai crap that leadership is pushing us to make for them to try and sell
They don’t like eating dogfood.
Sells? You mean forces on?
Don’t worry. OpenAI’s destiny is absorption into Microsoft.
Copilot is horse shit.
Reminds me of when my dad told me his coworkers at Microsoft were all using Google, they get a ping from their PM or whomever: “are you sure you don’t want to try Bing instead?”
Their support engineers do. They told me, and it’s why the more complex support cases just stall ….
Which is a shame, because those engineers suck at communication half the time and running Thier messages through AI would solve so much haha
Here’s a repost of my favourite Copilot Copypasta:
Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees.
$30 per seat per month.
$1.4 million annually.
I called it “digital transformation.”
The board loved that phrase.
They approved it in eleven minutes.
No one asked what it would actually do.
Including me.
I told everyone it would “10x productivity.”
That’s not a real number.
But it sounds like one.
HR asked how we’d measure the 10x.
I said we’d “leverage analytics dashboards.”
They stopped asking.
Three months later I checked the usage reports.
47 people had opened it.
12 had used it more than once.
One of them was me.
I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds.
It took 45 seconds.
Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations.
But I called it a “pilot success.”
Success means the pilot didn’t visibly fail.
The CFO asked about ROI.
I showed him a graph.
The graph went up and to the right.
It measured “AI enablement.”
I made that metric up.
He nodded approvingly.
We’re “AI-enabled” now.
I don’t know what that means.
But it’s in our investor deck.
A senior developer asked why we didn’t use Claude or ChatGPT.
I said we needed “enterprise-grade security.”
He asked what that meant.
I said “compliance.”
He asked which compliance.
I said “all of them.”
He looked skeptical.
I scheduled him for a “career development conversation.”
He stopped asking questions.
Microsoft sent a case study team.
They wanted to feature us as a success story.
I told them we “saved 40,000 hours.”
I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up.
They didn’t verify it.
They never do.
Now we’re on Microsoft’s website.
“Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot.”
The CEO shared it on LinkedIn.
He got 3,000 likes.
He’s never used Copilot.
None of the executives have.
We have an exemption.
“Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction.”
I wrote that policy.
The licenses renew next month.
I’m requesting an expansion.
5,000 more seats.
We haven’t used the first 4,000.
But this time we’ll “drive adoption.”
Adoption means mandatory training.
Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches.
But completion will be tracked.
Completion is a metric.
Metrics go in dashboards.
Dashboards go in board presentations.
Board presentations get me promoted.
I’ll be SVP by Q3.
I still don’t know what Copilot does.
But I know what it’s for.
It’s for showing we’re “investing in AI.”
Investment means spending.
Spending means commitment.
Commitment means we’re serious about the future.
The future is whatever I say it is.
As long as the graph goes up and to the right.
-@gothburz
When I worked for MS… A while ago… We had to have Vista (pre release alpha) installed, which ALWAYS messed up when out presenting to clients
Oh, another article that doesn’t understand the different between a platform and a model.
Copilot is a platform, Anthropic is a model choice inside copilot. So is Gemini, so are OpenAI models.
As someone who works at Microsoft, I can attest that I do use models from all model producers extensively (but mostly anthropic right now, for good reason). 4 months ago I was using Gemini, and before that I was using GPT 5. We have lots of models and many of us have access, through copilot, to the model we want to use.
This is sounding a lot like the metaverse
that article reads like it was written by Copilot
Nothing better when even the developers don’t trust the product
I think this was written by AI
I remember watching a tech youtuber specialized in Windows laptop reviews. He asked other tech influencers on a convention what laptop they use personally and professionally and stopped quickly because everyone uses macbooks.
About 15 years ago in Ireland, Microsoft hired a load of sales people to sell their phones. The whole sales division had to use Microsoft phones but they were replaced with Samsung phones after the sales team complained about how bad the Microsoft phones were for work
Another MS product in the bin. Windows 11 looks like its next.
Windows 12 needs to be streamlined with no bloat or adverts. Get back to basics Microsoft.
Another misspelling of “Microslop”, those article really never learn are they ?
Did anyone read the article? It is pure AI slop.
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Did they seriously use the prompt as the author’s description?
I just spent 40 minutes on the phone last night helping my sister reinstall Bluetooth drivers on her PC because Microsoft keeps uninstalling basic functionality with their automatic Windows 11 updates.
If they can’t manage to avoid breaking their customer’s devices, I don’t trust them to implement LLM or other AIs.
Microsoft has become saas and has incentive to create as much useless tools as possible to bundle and sell to corporate.
The personal computer experience segment has been dead for about 20 years. We’re using watered down office software.
My history of Copilot use at 0% remains intact, and I have no plans to change it.
I refuse to believe this because the recent Windows updates (and the whole OS) is such garbage and buggy.
I thought they were using copilot to code windows 11….. which is why it’s falling apart
they know its slop.but theu trying to push the slop unto us like a game of hot [potato . no](http://poatato.no) thanks. wash your head with it.
Here the thing. Satya Nandella like other billionaires discourages his own kids from using tech. He is a textbook hypocrite.