M$ has done more to convince people that AI is bullshit than anyone else and I just want to thank them for their hard work.
How can you fumble a quasi-monopoly on desktop operating systems this hard
By changing from a company that produces a product for consumers to a company that produces stock value for share holders.
MS doesn’t care about home users, hasn’t in a long, long time. Notice how they quit fighting piracy ages ago? The money is in commercial use.
If you’re running a Windows ecosystem, you can fine tune every aspect. If MS takes any of that tuning away, such as forcing AI, they risk killing the cash cow.
Because you think you have a full monopoly and everyone has no option but to put up with it.
“Sir, a second slop has hit production”
Microsoft aren’t content with 20 different UI styles in windows, they need a 21st. Especially after they saw the latest iOS design.
“Hey! Let’s take the new iOS design but without the transparency!”
Desperate move, desperate times.
When do they rename Edge to Copilot Explorer. :)
Copilot Firefox Downloader
Internet Copilot
Get ready for:
clicks hyperlink
Entire page is scraped and sent to copilot LLM to be processed. This causes a 1.5 second delay
Then after you get passed the cookies popup and promo popup, the whole page shifts and gets injected with copilot summarizations right as you were about to click on something else.
Work forces me to use edge, this’ll be fun
Work forces me to use edge, this’ll be fun
Those absolute monsters.
Then after you get passed the cookies popup and promo popup, the whole page shifts and gets injected with copilot summarizations right as you were about to click on something else.
you forgot ads. It’s going to get injected with ads
Did the article really not include a screenshot of the interface?
Edit: looks like the verge has some screenshots
https://www.theverge.com/news/854832/microsoft-edge-copilot-redesign-ui-features
It does look like garbage
The corners are so rounded wtf. And those “Explore” containers look like the Humane AI pin which failed spectacularly.
when did the verge has a paywall?
Edge? Is that the app I used to install LibreWolf?
I don’t think I’ll ever consensually use Windows ever again.
People still use Internet Explorer - oh - I mean Edge?
Lots of companies have it as the one and only option. Worked so well with internet explorer for them, I believe.
Im curious how many lemmy users have edge as their default browser.
“Seriuosly unpopular” and the base for that claim is a reddit post with 300 upvotes. Don’t get me wrong, fuck microslop and edge, but this title could not be more sensationalistic.
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My company pushes us to use copilot and I end up going back to chatgpt (I use them mainly as glorified search engines, error code debuggers and coding assistants). Copilot constantly has availability issues. Sort of tough to use a site that isn’t available.
I never got an issue with copilot, at least in Visual Studio (only one I use).
Make repetitive tasks like unit test a breeze. And very useful for debugging issues with tools like Entity Framework.
I switched to full Linux on my personal hardware though. I only use Windows for work.
There was almost no reason to use Edge to begin with not much changes here.
