Technology

Its worth understanding that microsoft, like most companies, is rapidly rebranding most of their existing stuff as "AI". A couple weeks (months?) back at work we managed to convince the boss that maybe it wasn't a good idea to put all of our sensitive internal data into Teams and convinced him to turn off copilot. Literally minutes later he lost his shit because auto-transcripts no longer worked and IT turned it back on.

But that is what we are seeing with a LOT of companies. ANYTHING that can be sold as "AI" is getting re-branded as it. So it makes perfect sense that MS will rebrand it as "installing copilot AI" rather than "not removing clippy".

That said: MS have also been ahead of the curve on adding even more bullshit and spyware to everything they do so... have you heard the good word about Linux? Libre Office gets personal users most of the way there (and if they worked on their documentation, all the way there. I STILL don't fucking know how to get row/column headings to work in Calc...). And for business/power use, the browser/cloud based solutions are probably what you want anyway since none of that data should live on your laptop/desktop and should instead live in the company approved data store.