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This is one of the most atrocious branding and product mistakes I have ever witnessed. > The Microsoft 365 Copilot app continues to serve as your everyday prod
by epistasis 10mo ago
This is one of the most atrocious branding and product mistakes I have ever witnessed.
> The Microsoft 365 Copilot app continues to serve as your everyday productivity app for work and life.
The productivity hit has been extremely negative for me. If I want to create a new spreadsheet, I have no idea where to go now. After opening the Okta tile, I'm presented with a chat box, and some nondescript tiles on the left.
If I ask the chat box to create a new document, I'm suddenly engaged with a slow-to-respond bot conversation describing what I want to do. I want a blank spreadsheet. It gives me a DOCUMENT TO DOWNLOAD rather than a document inside OneDrive. My goodness.
OK, so how do I find the prior interface? It's hidden behind "Apps". Getting a blank spreadsheet is hard enough, getting an actual slide deck from a template, that's impossible in the interface. And the bugs! SOOOOOO many bugs in the web interface.
I've finally given in and am using the desktop apps. If I need to use a template, I copy an old document manually.
It's pretty clear that Microsoft didn't even dogfood this, and that there was no iterative design cycle. Just a first-draft UI that get shoved out the door, and replaced decades of good-will about Office. Maybe "good will" is too strong, let me say not-ill-will.