A few weeks ago, I tried to explain to someone what Microsoft Copilot is. I couldn’t… because the name ‘Copilot’ now refers to at least 75 different things.
Just yesterday, I had a studymate try to open an xlsx file on their phone - they had the Microsoft 365 app installed that would do this, but a recent update to that app just decided to change it to a Copilot only app.
So they had to install Microsoft Excel, and then it took over 10 minutes to initialise, just so we could finally look at a marking criteria. It would’ve literally been quicker for us to walk to a campus computer, log into that and read the xlsx file from that.
It genuinely baffles me how Microsoft makes their software objectively worse and outright baits and switches one popular application to turn it into another, presumably to up those adoption statistics and metrics; and they get away with it every single time. They long ago stopped caring about home users, but even business users put up with this mess.
Just yesterday, I had a studymate try to open an xlsx file on their phone - they had the Microsoft 365 app installed that would do this, but a recent update to that app just decided to change it to a Copilot only app.
That’s hilarious. I had the 365 app installed on my phone, because the company I work for uses Microsoft everything and I had to install that POS in the sandbox so I could open up any word or excel docs that were sent to me. Well I just opened it up, and sure enough, it’s now just a chat bot, all other functionality is gone.
This reeks of those scam companies on Amazon that sell one product under a listing for a while to get the ratings up, then swap to a completely different product while keeping the listing the same, in order to fool people into buying the new product with its high star rating and good reviews. I guarantee that’s why MS decided to go this route, to fool people into installing it because of its userbase and star rating, and to cook their books on adoption numbers.
Just yesterday, I had a studymate try to open an xlsx file on their phone - they had the Microsoft 365 app installed that would do this, but a recent update to that app just decided to change it to a Copilot only app.
So they had to install Microsoft Excel, and then it took over 10 minutes to initialise, just so we could finally look at a marking criteria. It would’ve literally been quicker for us to walk to a campus computer, log into that and read the xlsx file from that.
It genuinely baffles me how Microsoft makes their software objectively worse and outright baits and switches one popular application to turn it into another, presumably to up those adoption statistics and metrics; and they get away with it every single time. They long ago stopped caring about home users, but even business users put up with this mess.
That’s hilarious. I had the 365 app installed on my phone, because the company I work for uses Microsoft everything and I had to install that POS in the sandbox so I could open up any word or excel docs that were sent to me. Well I just opened it up, and sure enough, it’s now just a chat bot, all other functionality is gone.
This reeks of those scam companies on Amazon that sell one product under a listing for a while to get the ratings up, then swap to a completely different product while keeping the listing the same, in order to fool people into buying the new product with its high star rating and good reviews. I guarantee that’s why MS decided to go this route, to fool people into installing it because of its userbase and star rating, and to cook their books on adoption numbers.