Why?
Why is every company right now making it impossible to understand what their app does?
I swear to fucking god, I’ve been looking for SAAS products at work to fill a role, they’re all branded as AI and not what the companies actually fucking do.
Office has like a 40 year plus reputation as THE office suite. What the fuck us copilot? That cheap knockoff OpenAI they debuted before it was really?
Because AI on its own doesn’t actually make a return, but by conflating the AI investment with a genuine productivity tool that’s making money, you can start to hide your poor choices.
Wow, you are right. This is a way for them to pump the bubble and their stock price up even more.
Pre AI: Hey, we have 5 billion subscribers to our office suite!
Start of AI: Hey, we have 5 billion subscribers to our office suite and 3 subscribers to our AI offering (currently in their free testing period, plans already precancelled)
Now: Hey, we have 5 billion subscribers to our AI services (that also features an office suite)
I think I know why. Microsoft Office was a product. Their new strategy is Services. They want you to lease their services and have vendor lock-in forever. It takes a long time for businesses to migrate.
This has MBA written all over it. The idea that AI can just do whatever the client needs means that you can say your service does it all!
It is a scam.
I assume it’s for the CEO benefit. “Look boss, we’re pushing AI like you wanted”
It’s because when so much money/power has pushed so long for people to make decisions based on money and not logic, we’ve now arrived at the point where even “the emperor’s new clothes” type moments can’t rein in the insanity; executives are bonused off this garbage and most employees who do know better–thanks to orgs’ own internal propaganda and structures–have given up caring and just publish the garbage and clock out(as they should).
Welp… Time to bring back this ol’ meme.
Gameboy
Gameboy Pocket
Gameboy Light
Super Gameboy
Gameboy Colour
Gameboy Advance
Gameboy Advance SP
Gameboy Advance SP Backlit
Gameboy Player
Gameboy Micro
Some clouds are worth yelling at
Why do I feel 2026 is gonna be a fucking nightmare…?
Pattern recognition
Extrapolation from the experience of previous years
As a south american, it’s already being a nightmare. I’ve been enduring a heat index of about 44 to 46ºC, and now the tension from the us invasion in a neighbor country
Copile of shit
You cannot make this shit up.
It’s been named “Microsoft Office” since 1990. Way to piss 35 years of brand recognition up a wall.
How drunk are these guys?
How drunk are these guys?
Ask the dude that renamed Twitter to X (formerly Twitter).
Don’t confuse it with Microsoft 365 or Microsoft Copilot app ! 😂
Damn, our customers don’t use copilot, but we promised to reach 50% usage in 2026…
That’s it… Rename the whole thing to copilot and we achieve our goal!
One quick hack to make the shareholders happy with how much money you’ve been putting into a failing project: rename a successful one to the failing project’s name.
Also they can release “Microsoft Office 365 Co-pilot app business plus pro platinum edition, with Azure” for 3x the price and no clear business distinction.
My LibreOffice is still called LibreOffice.
Used to be called OpenOffice back in the day. At least the name change made sense.
They didn’t change name. OpenOffice still exists. LibreOffice is a fork of OpenOffice.
Ok so there are 3 microsoft products called copilot now. Surely this won’t confuse anyone
Are you including Github Copilot in that count? Technically that’s a Microsoft product. It’s probably the only Copilot that’s actually useful.
A controversial take. Every new feature added to Github has made it more unpleasant to use, and a lot of that is down to Copilot, for me. Only way to get rid of it is to wait for Github to go down again, which is the only thing it does reliably at the moment.
I get the Pro version for free since I’ve worked on a few popular open-source projects. I’m using it in VS Code and it’s helped me write code for systems I’m unfamiliar with. I’ve used it to summarize the architecture of open-source projects so I understand how to contribute new features. The autocompletion can be pretty good too. I also use it to review my code.
We use Claude Code with the Opus 4.5 model at work, and it’s quite a bit better, but I don’t want to pay that much for an AI model for personal projects since I use it so infrequently.
Every new feature added to Github has made it more unpleasant to use
Free private repositories, Github Actions, and Github Packages are all pretty useful though. All of those were added under Microsoft’s ownership. Actions got a head start because it was built on top of Azure DevOps infra that Microsoft had already created.
Github actions are famously extremely trash…
Plenty of open-source projects that I use are happy with them though. I see far fewer projects using Travis CI and AppVeyor these days for example.
Do they use them because they’re "just there* and convenient, or do they actially like them?
And TBF I was largely referring to how poorly they’re written and performant, which you often don’t need to care about (until you do).
Microsoft is reporting over 600 MILLION user growth on copilot, basically overnight! Wow, very impressive Mr Nadella. You’ve truly pushed AI adoption forward. Someone get this man a bonus!
Hey there, laptop, looks like you’re going to be a linux machine now.
Surely they wanted to name it Microsoft 365 Copilot Slop, but the CEO was against that.
I have had open office installed on my computer since 2008. While back then word wasn’t complete shit I was still using it for many years. But now there is nothing Libre office has that word doesn’t so fuck MS office.
