Anyone remember “Microsoft Works”?
(It didn’t)
I always use this as an example when I need to explain what oxymoron means.
I remember Microsoft Bob.
I really think we are watching Microsoft commit suicide in slow motion. It will take years but after a record number of bad decisions it will deflate into a tiny piece of crap another company purchases for cheap just for access to the brand name.
I wish you are right, but they are really big in the cloud sector. Azure brings them billions.
I doubt it. IBM is still around.
And the Internet already has tons of people saying “I fucking hate having to use AI at work,” so the reviews were in before they even chose the name!
since they like rebranding so much, they should just generate new name every day
I never had a particular love of Microsoft at any point in my life but at least they had a diverse portfolio of various products from software to services to hardware of all sorts.
Now they have abandoned most of that (and continuing to abandon more with each month) as they pivot to being one of many AI-focused grift companies. They now sell bullshit, lies, fraud, and scams as their primary products.
Incredible transition into a poisoned, bloated, festering asswipe of a company that isn’t worth a moment of anyone’s time or respect.
They own A LOT of gaming companies, stakes in AI, and Azure.
They aren’t going anywhere.
They own A LOT of gaming companies
They’ve started killing/selling them though.
In a post on the Microsoft 365 Admin portal (I am glad it’s not renamed yet), the company notes that “Microsoft 365 Roadmap is becoming the AI at Work Roadmap,” as it “centralizes AI-powered innovation tracking without changing access or workflows.”
They didn’t rename a product. They renamed a roadmap to make it more general. That’s not that bad; certainly nothing worth doomposting about.
Since when is Microsoft dying doomposting
Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Outlook
Of those four, only Outlook really could have used some changes. The other three were perfected 20 years ago. And how do you improve perfection? You can only make it worse.
I really don’t want an AI ‘summarizing’ and changing the meaning of the emails that come in like an automated game of telephone.
Hell, in the majority of cases the summary is longer than the email.
AI is great at giving the appearance of work being done, but it sucks if accuracy matters.
