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Copilot could soon live inside Windows 11's File Explorer, as Microsoft tests Chat with Copilot in Explorer, not just in a separate app (www.windowslatest.com)
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[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 1 points 17 minutes ago

It is a cold dark night at Microsoft Headquarters. The moon is blacked out by the clouds and rain and thunder beat relentlessly against the office windows.

The head UX engineer stares at the prompt nervously. He hesitates, his whole life has been building up to this point. He is going to control where windows is going and shape the lives of billions of people.

"You got this," He mumbles to himself, "you know what to do."

He grabs a screenshot of his desktop and types the fateful words. Make this desktop make more money

The AI says processing...

[–] FabledTurtle@feddit.nl 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

All they had to do is built an actually good search into explorer, they didn't do that for 20 years and now they force this trash on us... Good thing I ditched Windows last year and soon will sell all my Microsoft shares, that company has no future or vision it's disgusting

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago

MS is likely spent all thier R&D on AI, and building datacenters, they want to somehow justfiy recoup the losses from the "profitless LLM"

[–] Nugscree@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Windows, the first ever sloperating system.

[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 day ago

I like somethings sloppy, but definitely not my OSes

[–] BiomedOtaku@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 day ago

Linux has been very nice to me. I will look back fuck shitdows.

[–] eleefece@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

PLEASE

[–] IEatDaFeesh@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Surely they'll make the file explorer faster now that they're "upgrading" it.

[–] TheTimeKnife@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago

Windows obsession with destroying their own file explorer is bizarre.

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 day ago

I cannot understand why a user would ever want this

[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 43 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The thing is that if MS concentrated on providing a bulletproof experience, a sane licensing mode, with a low, cheap, entry bar, they would just keep being the top dog forever.

Now they are just giving market share to Linux and MacOS for free.

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

it really is wild that they're pushing away so many people, who otherwise would just sit with them forever, just because profits must always increase

like all they have to do is stop making things worse and people will stay with them and continue joining them. that's literally all they have to do. and they can't do it.

[–] phlegmy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

Most public companies and governments focus entirely on short term wins with zero consideration for the future.
Microslop is no different.

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The current version of macOS, Tahoe, is also atrocious. It's completely unusable on a desktop, it feels like they want to make it work like an iPad.

For the better or worse, the only good OS is now Linux.

[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago

Well, the only piece of Apple tech I currently own is an iPad. I bought the thing through a pretty nice offer from my telco, and for a pretty specific use case, running the Affinity suite on the move without lugging my beefy laptop around.

When I saw how they went full idiot with their glass shit for the UI (hellooo, Windows Aero), I stopped allowing updates. The fact that to reduce transparency and effects to make the thing half usable you have to go into accessibility settings says it all.

[–] bluetardis@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago

How many times can they shoot their own foot? They must aim like Star Troopers…

[–] Matriks404@lemmy.world 32 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is just pure idiocy and desperation at this point.

[–] embed_me@programming.dev 14 points 2 days ago

I'm surprised at this. If I was given the job to fuck up windows, I wouldn't be able to get such ludicrous ideas

[–] teft@piefed.social 184 points 3 days ago (3 children)

[–] axh@lemmy.world 72 points 3 days ago

"Rico!"

"Kaboom?"

"Yes Rico, kaboom!"

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[–] jkercher@programming.dev 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

https://filepilot.tech/

[–] gndagreborn@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Looks cool. But holy crap. Windows search is so bad that you need everything.exe. now it's gotten to the point where we need a third party explorer to do the most basic tasks without being bombarded with ads or AI crap.

I just really... REALLY wish citrix and epic worked on Linux. I would switch in a heart beat if this gets pushed into the wild.

[–] RamRabbit@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

REALLY wish citrix and epic worked on Linux

Epic games work on Linux via Heroic. GOG, Amazon, and Epic games all work through it.

[–] gndagreborn@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Epic as in electronic medical records, but did not know that. Pretty neat.

[–] RamRabbit@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Ah, had never heard of that before. Sounds like we both learned something. <3

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

everything saved my work life

and I'm not even on windows 11 yet

[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago

Install Linux Problem Solved.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 143 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I just got a colonoscopy and the doc said she found some copilot in there

[–] mr_account@lemmy.world 76 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Terminal

[–] skooma_king@piefed.social 44 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Powershell, acktually

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[–] Brewchin@lemmy.world 108 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Microslop going full "the beatings will continue until morale improves" with their ensloppification of everything they touch, I see.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago

MS abandons its other departments development for SLOP 100%. they are on a path to self-destruction.

[–] capuccino@lemmy.world 78 points 3 days ago (4 children)

At this pace Microsoft will change Windows' name to Copilot. That's my prediction.

[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 38 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They're already changing the name of MS Office to "Microsoft Copilot App". So when you use Copilot inside Microsoft Office on Windows, you'll be running Copilot in the Copilot App on Copilot OS.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 6 points 1 day ago

“Microsoft Windows App” confused the shit out of me earlier. I only realised it was Remote Desktop when I read the description, and I only did that because I was wondering what the fuck Microsoft Windows App is.

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[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 64 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Holy shit, just fucking stop

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[–] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Genuine question. How does all of this useless nonsense make them money? Is it all just from loans? Are they just saying "look at all the AI we're doing" and the investors are just desperate to give them more money?

I just cannot fathom how they profit from all of this. They're spending so much time doing this. For what? What is the business motive for doing this, if not to get bigger loans from their investors?

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[–] Armand1@lemmy.world 60 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Explorer already crashes enough without this.

Why don't they work on Explorer's awful performance and constant hanging before working in another chatbot?

You know, useful software development work?

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[–] dukemirage@lemmy.world 61 points 3 days ago (2 children)

When I wanted the file search to not suck I didn’t mean that.

[–] redlemace@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

You don't understand .... you have to talk to file explorer and convince it you really need that file and then talk it into searching for it. (Makes sense .... would YOU like to go into onedrive and try to find something ????)

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 72 points 3 days ago

Users: File search should not be this bad
Microsoft: How about this bad?

[–] shittydwarf@piefed.social 57 points 3 days ago

[–] Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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[–] superduperpirate@lemmy.world 51 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Is microsoft secretly run by linux evangelists?

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[–] Somecall_metim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 2 days ago

Well just earlier today, I installed Pop OS on an external drive. I'll be using that to see if I can use it as a daily driver. If I can, microsoft can eat the entirety of my arse.

[–] e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de 40 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Soon in the Microslop support forums: "Please help, I asked Copilot for the photos of my late grandma and it deleted my entire C drive".

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