Microsoft never fails to disappoint
Huh. I guess Microsoft and I have that in common.
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You forgot the symbol crash at the end. How disappointing.
Typical!
At least you and I will always have your mom.
Be Skype. You literally are the first one. You literally are the only one. Covid happens. Zoom pops up from nowhere and takes everyone. You die.
Still, still, I’m like, how???
Failing successfully tho.
Lol! Be like GitLab instead:
1 - Be the underdog with good reputation in a market completely monopolized;
2 - Have the incumbent self-destruct by vibecoding its product and pushing AI above every other feature to its customers;
3 - Loudly announce that you are leaving your past good behavior behind, and that you are betting everything on vibecoding and pushing AI to your customers!
They had Skype! It was the verb for video calling for god’s sake! How do you LOSE so BADLY so CONSISTENTLY and STILL have investors.
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Hey wait, I can do that! Where do I apply?
Well there used to be an island where the majority of folks involved in these kind of deals went to, but the owner landed in some legal trouble and decided to hang somewhere else instead
So you’re saying that position is open, too?
Sometimes I miss Microsoft Lync, but not often.
I made this comment as a joke but I actually do miss that chats could be in separate windows. s far as I know most major corporate (and non corporate, looking at you Discord) chat platforms don’t let you pop out windows.Edit: Okay, it’s just Discord that’s the problem then. It sort of supports it in that it will open the chat in your web browser, but then it does weird things like play the notification sound twice.
You can pop out threads with a command click in Slack, but I don’t know if you can change that to the default behaviour.
Just threads? Not a chat room or DM?
Edit: Just tried this on DMs and chat rooms and it works. Thanks so much for the tip! Another successful usage of Poe’s Law, the best way to find an answer on the Internet is to post incorrect information and wait for someone to correct you!
It’s quite literally the first option on the three-dot menu of any Teams chat: “Open in new window”
Oh nice, fortunately/unfortunately we don’t use Teams for chats at my current company.
Lucky, one company I work for had Teams, the other one - small-ish 20 people - self hosts Rocket Chat.
That sounds neato. My main gripe with Teams (and I’m hoping someone will correct me again) is that you can’t enter raw text into the editor (think like writing Markdown). It’s just a WYSIWYG/rich editor. I really cannot fucking stand those things.
I’ve got countless gripes, I don’t think there is a feature that I like or that they made 100% working and easy to use.
Their idea was that OpenAI was so far ahead of the competition no one could ever catch up. Turns out they weren’t and now they’re at the bottom.
At the bottom? Is there a single LLM that has surpassed ChatGPT?
EDIT: I missed Gemini 3.1 pro
Still, saying “Everyone else catched up and it’s at the bottom now” is seriously out of touch thing to say
That’s Microsoft. They got desktop PCs. They repeatedly failed to get mobile, they repeatedly failed to get portable, they never had embedded, they had fucking Skype at one point. They drink gold and piss nickel, Microsoft.
Don’t forget Vine was basically tiktok and they just binned it for no reason.
Well, I think Vine was too early. The videos were too short, could you imagine trying to put ads or sponsors in 6 second videos? So how do you monetize it?
Also Zune was a fantastic player.
Have all the code in the world
Create LLM for software development
Try to advertise it
Oops, no budget
Get acquired by Microsoft
Enshittification ensues
Everyone else loots your code repos
Microsoft tries to put your coding tool in everything
Coding tool injected into Excel
Into Word
Into Teams Chat
Nobody knows what this is even supposed to do anymore
Copilot now synonymous with Clippy
Yeah, can’t even begin to imagine how this happened.
Microsoft acquired GitHub way before LLMs existed.
s/existed/were useful/
It’s weird because copilot in office tries to push agents on you as if it were a Jehovah’s witness.
So GitHub copilot doesn’t have them? I don’t really use that.
invent copilotRebrand ChatGPT
Ftfy
Naah, the initial GitHub copilot was something else.
Microsoft could have been king with with chatgpt for personal superapp, github copilot for developers and something like sharepoint/power vibe widgets. But nooo, they make windows recall when ai models can’t run locally
if they had made a unified copilot agent they would have won. Think open claw with the power of NPUs for small tasks and cloud for big queries dedicated APIs for interacting with all the microsoft products special tailored version for developers. More focus on retrieving information and doing small tasks for the user than generating slop.
The first versions they released were so fucking bad and every app had basically just a chatbot with zero functionality. It ruined the product for when it could actually do tasks.
It is impressive how much better claude is than copilot specifically for coding.
Like… how much bullshit is in Windows to learn off of, let alone github.
I mean, Microsoft’s biggest mistake was shoving it in front of everyone’s faces. The real reason that all the other “agentic BS” is received well is because the people who use them have an actual use case, or, are very enthusiastic about the technology and enjoy messing with it. Thus the discussion is mostly from that small group of people who will have something positive to say.
The truth is, that all the models and harnesses suck for most use cases that most people have. When you shove it in front of a general audience and make them interact with it, then the discussion will be about how bad it is.
The fact that it can’t even get PowerShell right when it should be intimately familiar with PowerShell commands and scripts is absolutely asinine.
“if they’re gonna steal, they should at least do it right” I mean, I can see how someone would want to think that, but I’m fine with them failing to steal.
I don’t know the original author’s opinions on AI, but I think it’s still fair to say that it was clearly Copilot’s goal to steal all the code and be good, and they had all the code, and so ethics aside one would expect them to have succeeded with flying colour at whatever their goals were, even if those were bad goals.
But they failed instead, which is impressive.
I was using tabnine before copilot was even announced… they are the ones who fumbled this more than github.
Being the first mover doesn’t guarantee shit and never has.
