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Microsoft announces Scout, an autonomous AI agent built on OpenClaw
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2026/06/02/introducing-microsoft-scout-your-always-on-personal-agent/ https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2026/06/0...
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- infecto 4mo agoMicrosoft is still going to win because they are the no risk option for many businesses but wow I might actually be embarrassed to be part of these efforts. I hate to use such hyperbolic language too but they have continued year over year for the past 3 years failed to deliver in AI. From the useless frameworks they have been building on the Azure side, the partnership with Anthropic where they are still building copilot to be uniquely their own (and confusing) and now this. It is extremely interesting to watch this unfold!
- observationist 4mo agoHow's your IBM mainframe doing, these days? Wait, you use Watson, right? IBM still exists. They're the perfect example of how far a corporate behemoth can keep rolling after it effectively dies. Microsoft is effectively dead. It's easier and less hassle to use Linux desktop environments than to wrestle with Windows bullshit. Their flagship product is a sad joke, their leadership is flailing for purpose, and their entire corporation is bloated and unable to focus on anything meaningful. That doesn't mean they'll disappear tomorrow, or in 5 years, or even in 20. They've already lost whatever relevance they had, and will have to fight to get it back. There will be something called Microsoft still churning recognizably Microsoft slop, because they have a lot of money and resources with which to continue flailing. It's the year of the Linux desktop, and Windows has fallen.
- gigel82 4mo agoAre you high on your own supply, or did you genuinely hallucinate a reality where a $3 trillion company is dying because a handful of Redditors learned how to use Proton?
- andsoitis 4mo ago> Microsoft is effectively dead. Microsoft is the 4th largest company by market cap.
- economistbob 4mo agoEnron was 7th.
- vitally3643 4mo agoTesla has shown very conclusively that that metric has almost nothing to do with reality.
- partiallypro 4mo agoTesla trades at a massive multiple, Microsoft doesn't. I think a lot of you just hate Microsoft and ignore (or rather prefer to pretend) the reality that the world runs on it.
- observationist 4mo agoYes. They're not in any danger of disappearing. They just don't have any purpose anymore. They don't provide anything to the market that can't be gotten elsewhere, more cheaply, at higher quality, with better support, or with any other product advantage you might suggest. The only advantage they have is inertia; software works on windows that doesn't work on other platforms. Those are a tiny, tiny percentage of cases. Microsoft brings nothing to the table; you're going to have an easier time, be more secure, spend less money, deal with less hassle, if you use Linux. Linux hassles me less over the course of a month than Windows does in a single day of use. So yeah, Microsoft has a lot of wealth and resources. They don't have a point, anymore. There's no innovation, progress in development, novel or unique products, etc - they're effectively dead, as far as the market goes. They're going to have to undergo an epic struggle and battle for relevance, or within 20 years they're going to be a lot like IBM or Yahoo or even Bear Sterns. They're the 4th largest company because they underwent an epic struggle and seized on a purpose and were driven to develop the best in class enterprise operating system and went tooth and nail against Apple for decades. Now they're a second rate mishmash of adtech surveillance grifting, meaningless, flailing product development, prancing around and cashing out the reputation that was built, and supremely vulnerable. But yeah, they're big. I'm sure that will suffice to keep them alive for a long time. There just won't be a point - unless they get leadership that revitalizes the entire organization. I don't see that happening.
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- joemazerino 4mo agoHuh? Every enterprise uses MSFT. They aren't going anywhere.
- throawayonthe 4mo agoisn't that exactly what the comment you replied to is saying
- infecto 4mo agoHuh? That’s what I said. They are going to win but wow the AI product team lacks a lot of imagination. I feel like an arm chair jerk saying it but they have had years to copy others and still don’t. They have the data agreements with business but lack product vision.
- gchamonlive 4mo agoThe thing is that I have to agree with you. It'll take Microsoft killing a large enough company for execs to start taking notice.
- keeda 4mo ago> ... but they have continued year over year for the past 3 years failed to deliver in AI. The vibes may not be with them but enterprise adoption seems to be: https://www.a16z.news/p/leaders-gainers-and-unexpected-winners?open=false#%C2%A7in-enterprise-ai-apps-the-winner-so-far-ismicrosoft https://www.a16z.news/p/leaders-gainers-and-unexpected-winne... At $37B they also have the highest publicly disclosed AI ARR in the industry, so the article above is probably not too wrong. Sure it can all go sour in the future, but so far they seem to be doing better than most in the industry. MSFT has never done too well on the vibes meter, but also it seems vibes don't matter as much in enterprise.
- soundworlds 4mo agoThis is likely more to do with data security than feature set. M365 Copilot is the only provider that offers some level of confidence that data will stay within tenancy bounds. For a lot of businesses outside of the US, using other cloud models is considered a serious data risk.
- infecto 4mo agoRight but that’s my point of them winning. They power the world’s businesses which have data agreements in place already and they have restructured renewals now to throw in copilot. People are not using it because it’s great but it’s all that’s available for a large number of orgs.
- vdfs 4mo agoI'm confused, did they forget to add "Copilot" in the name?
- reaperducer 4mo agoIf you ask it its name, it replies "Microsoft Copilot Scout Enterprise Platform 360 for .NET (new)"
- baq 4mo agoCan’t tell if a joke or real
- tartoran 4mo agoIt doesn't matter much. It's a joke in both cases anyway.
- JohnTHaller 4mo ago_Final_v10.4_ActualFinal7
- hurfdurf 4mo agoCopy (3)
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- verdverm 4mo agoThey are apparently calling the agents "autopilots", one might say the buried the lede on this product
- wiether 4mo agoSCOUT: Sentient COpilot UTilities
- layer8 4mo ago
- giancarlostoro 4mo agoMark Zuckerberg has thrown how much into AI and Microsoft is passing them by as if they don't even exist. You know that meme about how IE is the browser eating paste, while Firefox and Chrome fight it out... Meta AI is the "kid" eating paste, while Google, Anthropic, OpenAI and Microsoft duke it out. Edit for those curious: https://devhumor.com/content/uploads/images/August2016/Chrome-Vs-Firefox-While-IE-Eats-Glue.jpg https://devhumor.com/content/uploads/images/August2016/Chrom...
- eckelhesten 4mo agoAre they though? Microsoft is still in the eating paste phase of their journey. Copilot was a huge flop.
- Octoth0rpe 4mo ago> Copilot was a huge flop _Which_ copilot? Lots of big businesses are buying github copilot for their devs, I wouldn't call it a flop by any stretch.
- giancarlostoro 4mo agoEven if it were somehow a flop, whats Mark Zuckerberg offering? My key point still stands. Mark Zuckerberg is asleep at the wheel burning billions with zero to show for it.
- cheschire 4mo agoDon’t fall for the hype cycle. Just wait till the blogosphere confirms that it’s useful stuff. I doubt you’ll feel so strongly in a month or two.
- giancarlostoro 4mo agoI already use Microsoft Phi offline, I would be more surprised if they made a model commercially that is worse than their open weight model.
- moolcool 4mo agoOpenClaw just seems so broken and insecure by-design. I feel like you'd have to be crazy to use it.
- homarp 4mo agoWindows is having a blast around security lately (e.g. https://therecord.media/microsoft-says-it-will-not-pursue-security-researchers-disclosure https://therecord.media/microsoft-says-it-will-not-pursue-se... ) so I guess, one more tool does not really matter
- tartoran 4mo ago> OpenClaw just seems so broken and insecure by-design. I feel like you'd have to be crazy to use it. Microsoft is about to introduce a worse and less secure version of OpenClaw to their Enterprise customers. What could go wrong??
- wiether 4mo agoThey'll probably start selling _Microsoft Copilot AI Defender_ or something similar?
- spogbiper 4mo agohttps://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-agent-365 https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-agent-365 "Get the confidence to move from agentic AI experimentation to enterprise-scale operations by giving your IT and security teams a control plane to observe, govern, and secure every agent across your organization."
- PUSH_AX 4mo agoI'm sorry, did OpenClaw improve by orders of magnitude in the last couple of months? Maybe so because it was an absolute dumpster fire when I looked at it, you could taste the "vibe" it was so poorly put together, I can't imagine anyone respectable building on top of it, better to just steal the compelling ideas (agent with a cron wrapper)
- robryan 4mo agoIt is the least reliable piece of software I have ever used. While I was still using it I got into states that were completely broken and the easiest way to get out was to wait for the next version and hope that did something.
- yashau 4mo agoObligatory: https://isitstable.com/openclaw https://isitstable.com/openclaw
- 650REDHAIR 4mo agoNeat! I have plenty of time to read these Microsoft announcements today because Microsoft 365 exchange online is borked and my emails aren’t going out and teams in browser is jank-city.
- moshun 4mo agoEasy solve! Have Scout hammer the page every two minutes and send you an email, text and Amber Alert when it’s back up! Welcome to Hell ™
- fuzzfactor 4mo agoI think the publicity announcement addressed that: >managed with the same rigor you expect from any first-party Microsoft service.
- pulkittt 4mo agoWhat did i just read? Microsoft putting their name in total vibe coded slop that breaks every release and super bloated? And coding it is not even that hard
- saghm 4mo ago> Microsoft putting their name in total vibe coded slop that breaks every release and super bloated? They never seem to have any problem with this if you take out the words "vibe coded", so it's not that crazy to me that adding it doesn't make a difference
- TZubiri 4mo agoWhat would be another example of Microsoft forking an OS program and slapping their name on it? As far as I know MSFT started open sourcing some of their own tech just shy of a decade ago, but white labelling OS tech I haven't seen much, maybe WSL?
- lgsymons 4mo agoEdge
- saghm 4mo ago> What would be another example of Microsoft forking an OS program and slapping their name on it? I'm not sure, but it's not what I said, so I'm not sure why you're asking me. What I said is that if you take out "vibe coded" from "Microsoft putting their name in total vibe coded slop that breaks every release and super bloated", you get something that they already do. I don't see anything about OS programs in that.
- aniceperson 4mo agoall of Azure infrastructure?
- TZubiri 4mo agoBust when? It can't be more than a couple of weeks away can it? Meta ruining it's pristine cybersecurity reputation, and Nadella throwing this buffoonery on the same week. When the AI market crashes, it will be the first market crisis where employees will be hired en masse rather than fired.
- ruduhudi 4mo agoI bet it‘ll start changing people‘s docs and sending emails without being asked to do so and then they have to dial it back.
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- torben-friis 4mo ago>Microsoft Scout connects to apps such as Teams, Outlook, OneDrive, and SharePoint, and accesses data from chat, email, calendar, and contacts. There's a running joke that you don't pay some mariachis for singing, you tip them to get them to go away. In a similar vein, Maybe Microsoft can figure out how to monetize not having to use Windows as a service. "You don't have to use teams and outlook any longer" is certainly a nice pitch.
- luplex 4mo agoAdding full interoperability with Matrix clients as a paid add-on to Teams would be this
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- chips_not_fries 4mo agoThe idea that people are desperate to get AI assisted support to book meetings or flights is utterly barking TAX THE TOKENS 100% Don't let these companies take from our societies without giving back politicians: if you aren't taxing the tokens you ain't getting my vote
- pton_xd 4mo agoTax the tokens, I actually like that idea. It'd be like a gasoline tax -- drivers pay for infrastructure maintenance. In this case, token consumers would pay for the increased burden on the grid.
- onesociety2022 4mo agoIf they are doing this, they should make tokens from open weights models tax-free. It will incentivize labs to make their models open.
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- SeriousM 4mo agoAnd its fuel are github copilot ai credits, burned in 2 days. Good luck habing a running business on scout and your credits are gone.
- thewebguyd 4mo agoDon't worry, they'll make it borderline free at the start, let everyone integrate into their org, and then jack up the price after just like they do with everything else.
- mNovak 4mo agoMinor point, but is there a trademark issue here with Yahoo Scout? (the Yahoo finance AI summaries widget)
- layer8 4mo agohttps://archive.ph/1jrGH https://archive.ph/1jrGH
- e12e 4mo agoWow, listening to the article [a], with the flat, tinny AI voice - it's hard to shake the feeling that this is satire. And in the YouTube video, I think I glimpse the AI delegating and assigning work to the user (hey, you should review this file/presentation) - via Teams or some other chat interface that probably grabs your attention with an obnoxious ping! Ironically, the vision they seem to be peddling looks quite close to what NocoBase[n] is selling. Key difference being that NocoBase at least try to increase human agency. They both suffer a bit from 4gl flaws; how do you version your code, how do you move it to another system, eg when changing employer. Like, how do bring your customized Chad - senior assistant - with you to Google workspace or fastmail? For NocoBase AFAIK they have modules, but no real versioning - so I don't see how it is a good fit for developers. I just recently came across it as I was looking for a ticketing system - and no, I don't want to build my own in a 4gl system if I can help it. But holy shit would I be more inclined to let our org users play with NocoBase rather than set things on fire with chaos agents running on top of OpenClaw! PS: We looked at libreDesk (too simple, missing things like merging issues) - looks like we'll go for FreeScout. I'm kind of sad that Trac/Apache bloodhound died (and I think died, not just became feature complete) - they worked pretty well for email first support tickets. [a] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2026/06/02/introducing-microsoft-scout-your-always-on-personal-agent/ https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2026/06/0... [n] https://www.nocobase.com/ https://www.nocobase.com/
- jdlyga 4mo agoThis reminds me of when Microsoft announced Bing Chat (which became Copilot) as a thin wrapper around ChatGPT. It turned out their value added wasn't integration, but tanking the quality and usefulness of it.
- outofpaper 4mo agoIt's got a target audience.
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- h4kunamata 4mo agoAhh Microsoft, my innocent child.... They didn't learn with CoPilot having no adoption. They didn't learn with Windows 11 being completely useless They didn't learn with GitHub having security breach left and right Some companies never learn I guess.
- thewebguyd 4mo agoCopilot has the highest enterprise adoption of any AI currently, with GH Copilot in 2nd (although that may change with the recent pricing changes). Windows 11 sucks but is still 70+% of desktop OS market share runs basically every single F500 company. Microsoft has a public image problem, but they are still winning (in the enterprise) regardless. The mistake is thinking that MS gives a crap about the individual consumer, they don't, that's not their customer.
- nigelglenday 4mo agoSo many SMEs (most of who live in a MSFT world) are still figuring how to sign up for Copilot let alone anything more advanced.
- goran-j 4mo agoAnother day, another agent runtime. The good news is this commoditizes the layer we build on. We've been focused on adding the voice/avatar piece to the OpenClaw ecosystem with NyxClaw: a Rust server for local-first, sub-250ms voice and a Gaussian-splatting avatar. The more standard the runtime, the easier it is for us to plug in.
- Azadeh5 4mo agoI am using the NyxClaw Android app; it is awesome, but can we change the avatar that is being used?
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