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If Copilot was so great, surely I would have been asked to opt-in to a better Office 365 family plan with Copilot enabled, rather than trying to dark-pattern me
by danudey 1y ago
If Copilot was so great, surely I would have been asked to opt-in to a better Office 365 family plan with Copilot enabled, rather than trying to dark-pattern me into paying for a more expensive Copilot-enabled plan against my will (forcing me to attempt to cancel in order to be offered my old plan).
It probably doesn't help that Microsoft is using 'Copilot' to mean so many different things - their Office AI integration, Github's Copilot thing, some laptops now apparently - so that users who know what's going on get irritated and ones that don't get confused.
- BuyMyBitcoins 1y agoMicrosoft will clarify the situation by offering “CoPilot One”.
- jaggederest 1y agoCoPilot One XS Series X? You really don't want the CoPilot One Series X, it's really a neutered version, and the CoPilot One XS Series S is decent but really doesn't cost any different, unlike the CoPilot XS Series S, which is obsolete.
- willis936 1y agoI cancelled my 365 subscription last night and was surprised to see that I was scheduled to pay $100 next month for an annual subscription tier that adds AI features that I would never use. The most valuable plan they offer is the one they charge the least for.
- nashashmi 1y agoYes they recently raised the price by merging copilot into it. No version of office is offered without copilot.
- baobun 1y ago> No version of copilot 365 is offered without copilot. FTFY. And I believed that they actually begrudgingly provide that option in the EU?
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- david_allison 1y agoIn April, I switched to Microsoft 365 Personal Classic which doesn't contain Copilot. Has this been discontinued?
- watwut 1y agoMicrosoft is master of confusing programs, confusing naming and plans. Pretty much everything they produce is royally unclear in its naming.
- swinglock 1y agoThey previously renamed Remote Desktop to Windows App.
- B1FF_PSUVM 1y agoThat's how you get your lunch eaten by Chrome Remote Desktop.
- tsimionescu 1y agoWhat's this "Office 365" you're mentioning? Microsoft has, I kid you not, actually renamed Office 365 to Microsoft 365 Copilot. Of which Copilot is one part, like Word and Excel. Yes, a Microsoft 365 Copilot subscription gives you access to Microsoft Word and Microsoft Copilot. Please don't confuse it with GitHub Copilot, a completely different product. Or with Copilot Search in Bing.
- Waterluvian 1y agoOh my good gravy you weren’t joking. How long until the brand piñata .NET gets renamed?
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- bryanrasmussen 1y agoI mean looking at it.. .NET as a brand name was obviously chosen because the Internet was hot, and also because Microsoft has no taste. The Internet is no longer so hot, and now they have a name that has no hot implication to it. So maybe rebrand, which after all is the general tactic of people who have no taste.
- sydbarrett74 1y agoMaybe Copilot will get wrapped into a Sky.NET meta-platform.
- oefrha 1y agoWaiting for a rebranding to .AI Core Copilot 12 Fall Creators Update Service Pack 3.
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- EvanAnderson 1y agoOh, shit. I could have gotten my old plan? Yay. >sigh< I assumed I was just stuck paying more and didn't research it.
- hetman 1y agoAlmost. After battling with support for several months, a friend of mine recently learned that versions of Office without AI do not allow you to create Teams meetings that last longer than an hour. Makes me wonder what other features they're leaving out.
- pwdisswordfishy 1y ago> versions of Office without AI do not allow you to create Teams meetings that last longer than an hour What other advantages are there?
- f4uCL9dNSnQm 1y agoI found it disappointing, that the same time MS gets a fine for bundling Teams with Office, they bundle another tool with it. As far I can tell it is an effective maneuver, previous company I worked for gave up selfhosted Mattermost instance, because "there is no point in maintaining it when we get Teams for free".