Microsoft 365 Copilot's Commercial Failure
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I have a paid 365 account and couldn't determine from logging in or account info screens if I was on paid or just the freemium version with my 365 plan
In testing out what I did have access to with Copilot, it was incredibly bad compared to ChatGPT or Claude, so I decided not to pay for Copilot whenever I see an ad for it.
If only MS could have asked Copilot whether their naming strategy makes sense.
Not to mention ton when they renamed Lync to Skype…
In this respect, as in many others related to .NET, Microsoft was inspired by Java. In the late 90s, Java wasn't just a language, it was a VM, runtime environment, enterprise platform (Java EE, now Jakarta EE), smartcard technology, remoting protocol, operating system, desktop environment, floor wax, dessert topping...
Even now it's mostly useful as a teams backend. But even that doesn't solve the shitheap problem, as any team you create in teams, or every yammer group automatically creates sharepoint sites which are not very useful as a sharepoint site and clutter up search results.
Users often don't understand that when they share something in teams there is an actual sharepoint behind it and sometimes people fiddle with permissions there and then other people don't understand why they're not allowed to do X or Y because the controls aren't fully exposed in the Teams interface. It's such a mess.
The portal completely changed in design and the former portal functionality is hidden in a tiny search icon in a knock off chatgpt interface.
The average non-technical corporate user must be so confused.
And it used to be better. Copilot.microsoft.com would just redirect to the best version you had access to. But they dropped that for whatever reason.
It's easy to pick an arbitrary date and point out the lack of profit. But why don't we pick a date a year from now? Or three years. Or five years.
I think over time users will come to assume that their computing device has, as part of the many tools on it, a tool that they can ask about stuff and get general answers.
Is it profitable right exactly now? No. But I suspect it will become completely commonplace in a few years, and not even worthy of note or comment for the average user.
MS isnt some cash-strapped startup that needs to post instant profits right this moment.
Hmm no, but they are clearly under pressure. Integrating Copilot Chat in office was a pretty big move, and the constant rebranding of everything also feels like they have zero vision and are losing control and scrambling to fix it.
I wonder if Copilot Chat in office will really convince users though. As it doesn't have access to Graph it will lose some of the most valuable 'intelligence'. And thus users will try it, get convinced it's pretty useless and be more hesitant to pay for a license in the future.
What I like:
- Meeting catch-up (I don't use meeting minutes much)
- Finding stuff in my messy uncategorised mailbox
- Finding stuff in sharepoint
Things that were a heavy disappointment:
- Everything in excel
- Rewriting text (it's always too noticeable that it's AI, it should be able to learn and match my style)
- Powerpoint presentation generation. It could not modify for a long time and even now it's just not useful
Tbh I only use it a few times per month where it's actually useful. For other things I've tried but it needs so much explaining to get it to do exactly what I want that it's more efficient to just do it myself.
I also use it to play around with data and roughly graph it to understand trends without having to roll out a Jupyter notebook.
I find it quite useful.
At work (not a tech company), there's an ongoing, slow, 365 rollout. The people who participate in the rollout are not technical in any way, but they all love it because they're not regular ChatGPT/Claude users, either. In a way, the restricted feature-set of Copilot compared to ChatGPT helps them, they're overwhelmed enough by Copilot. IT loves 365 because it's so risk-averse. No big jumps, no surprises, clearly defined data and risk policies.
I think if they drill down into the boring, slow, predictable, they will capture the market of risk-averse non-tech companies, not people.
I've tried building agents using 365 for our internal documents and they're OK for basic stuff (what's in what document where - max 20 documents only!!), but langchain/RAG/whatever are a million times more powerful.
Is it raking in cash right now? No. But that's just now. MS can and I feel is thinking longer term. Everyone is on a "Crash Dammit" Economist front-cover mode right, trying to will a crash into existence. Microsoft can think longer term about it - after all, we see younger generations diving in to make use of related technologies. Older demographics will, and are, slowly finding out what to make of the tech that is free with an OS install, and MS will see what kind of business to make out of that over time.
The problem with this broader topic is that people are restricting the time frame of the conversation to Right Now. MS doesn't need to worry about that so much, in the grand scheme of things.
I'm definitely not hoping for a crash but I do think it's inevitable. The amount investment is insane and I don't see how this can be recouped. It's a textbook bubble. And the collapse of a bubble always has pretty bad effects on the industry which will impact all of us. This is probably the biggest bubble to blow since the dotcom crisis.
Only marginally in general office use. Maybe is has better coding capabilities, but there is no way its the same sized model used on ChatGPT or via. OpenAI API.
I also wonder why Microsoft pushes it so hard when they don't even have a competitive LLM themselves. They're basically admitting failure (similar to when they moved Edge to a rebranded Chrome by the way).
Microsoft has a lot of already existing clients and those clients (mostly) trust them. They don't need to do a lot of convincing or marketing/sales to get them to use just one more thing from them even if it is moderately useful. If they can manage to resell whatever the LLM makers have made and still generate a profit, that's all they really need. They can figure out later how to make their own version if that turns out to be profitable enough.
This is the same thing with the browser; there is not much money to be made from building/maintaining an engine in the end. But packaging an already existing one with their own UI and tools (and ads) that may make them money indirectly is a good enough approach.
The thing that impresses me the most about Microsoft is that they rarely come up with the best solution right away but they always manage to stick to the new stuff and work out over time the useful parts that will make money. It's quite ruthless but in the end it's good business and this is why they manage to stay relevant. Good old, "embrace, extend, extinguish" is quite effective indeed.
Umm no, it's the opposite. It's super high-risk right now for us. Microsoft is constantly shifting stuff around leading us to have to constantly change our processes, documentation etc. Often with zero heads-up and often defaults to on. Some incidents:
- They suddenly started a "free promotion" with Sharepoint agents. We don't want to offer that to our users but it just popped in one day and the admin setting defaulted to on so people were already using it before we turned it off. This was a big deal for us.
- Constant rebranding of their product names leading to confusion among users and zero-value documentation and process rewrites for us. Also constantly fiddling with the URLs is sooo annoying.
- Constant changes in features leading to impact to our DPIA. For example copilot chat didn't have history at first. So no data was kept (they also promise they don't store any for training). Suddenly they added that one day, so we had to redo our entire DPIA because it now does suddenly store personal info which it didn't before so a whole lot of overhead comes into scope (data lifecycle, privacy regulations, security, data loss prevention etc). This is exhausting and there is no way to delay these features until we have approved them. Also, it caused our DPIA team to be highly critical after this incident. Because of course: If they did this before, what guarantees that they won't change something worse next month?
- Limited granularity of access controls - a lot is very high-scope on/off style controls. Meaning that if we want to block something we often block unintended features as well.
A lot of these things are definitely 'big jumps' and 'surprises'.
And the first product that lets a cell phone control keyboard and mouse sending camera to ChatGPT, having ChatGPT do all the work is not far off either.
Presumably both of these would violate your ... policies something awful. I should say will violate all your policies, because we both know this is going to happen.
You have no way of preventing both of these from occurring with IT policy.
I guess they spend their money on sales and licensing and not on developing good products now?
They make their money because they can go to the largest corporations & governments, talk to the CTO and tell them they have a product for everything that checks all their regulatory requirements, and all these products kind of sort of work together.
Who else can offer that?
For Microsoft, engineering is just about checking boxes on feature lists. Quality doesn't matter and engineering is a cost to be minimized. The people who make the purchasing decisions aren't the ones who have to use their stuff.
But they push it through the CTO with really good initial pricing, then when you're hooked they screw you on the next contract negotiation.
The old saying is: "Microsoft is much better at talking to your boss than you are". Which still rings true IMO.
And yeah Teams, I can't stand it. Outlook too, in particular the "new" one that doesn't do half the things the old one could do and requires all your email to be in MS cloud even if you have another provider.
That's not very specific to Microsoft really. You can say the same thing about Google, Apple or any other big corp that managed to capture a market where users don't really have real alternatives.
A year is a long time in the tech industry, let alone LLM (or Copilot) history.
You either get A) hallucinations of "I created the calendar entry now" (it didn't) or B) an .ics file you need to download, then import to Outlook manually.
More tests about this scenario in here: https://www.perspectives.plus/p/assistants-without-hands
If corps ever stop needing that, MS will be in trouble. Until then, few worries. They can play at following fads (not that I think AI is a fad) and not worry about execution.
Microsoft is actively killing of Active Directory and they're replacing it with Entra ID, which is "just" OAuth and hence is relatively easily replaced by a competing product.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/get-started...
These are the kind of release notes you'd expect to see for a dying product on life support, used only by those few remaining customers that are too big and too invested in it to migrate away.
Also, the Server 2025 release is the first one to change anything in Active Directory, the 2022 and 2019 versions had essentially nothing in the release notes for AD.
A few performance tweaks and a long-overdue security catch-up or two in a decade is not a vibrant, living and breathing product. It's a shambling zombie.
That little copilot icon is sitting there in the task tray, clickable and usable. I think people will, to whatever degree makes sense for them, get used to making some use of the basic free tier. Monetization / restrictions requiring some degree of limitations to upsell will eventually come for the currently half-billion or so Win11 users.
I get the point that few are currently paying for it, but there isn't all that much pressure to do so right now. That will come, later.
The list goes on and on, and we have to take time into consideration: people may have default strong feelings against the tech in question now, but often that's just a default stance. Over time, people will dip their toes in, and make use of it to whatever degree makes sense for them. Don't mistake current vocal criticism for the end all, be all, stance that will last forever: people get used to stuff, use it a bit, or more than a bit, time passes, and the tech slowly melds itself into people's lives in some manner and in some form: MS will wait and observer, and evolve the product to suit that slow change over time.
Why would you trust an LLM's advice about an appliance that can hideously disfigure you when they regularly fuck up basic advice about computers?
If they want to find something via AI, they’ll use their web browser and go to ChatGPT or Gemini.
I mean I remember when browser toolbar spyware was rampant, people literally ignored half the screen when they managed to install 30 toolbars.
It’s “installed” at my company but basically refuses to interact with basic company data like files in sharepoint.
Is it the IT department’s fault for not enabling something? I don’t know, but does that matter?
If the normal search system has access to the data why doesn’t copilot? Surely it would be trivial for Microsoft to run copilot in a way that keeps company data private so that they could actually turn it on and make it useful by default.
on my work computer - there's a sep. 365Copilot app that is tied into Teams,Sharepoint, outlook, and I believe our engineering wiki. Probably other stuff I'm not aware of.
I'm honestly shocked how often I use it now.
If I get a random Pipeline failure; I'll copy/paste it into the o365 Copilot app - and it points me to an email I didn't notice ~3 months ago about a new policy change, and then points me to discussion thread I wasn't on ~2 weeks ago about how to get in compliance with direct links to EngWiki 'how to fix..' documentation, and an Teams link to join the breaking teams Office Hours.
Just off a single ~1 sentence prompt and a stack trace
It's kind of amazing.
Search is part of this, but that doesn’t necessarily work from an error message.
It doesn’t mean you get the relevant parts of the thread either.
It certainly doesn’t mean you get a populated meeting invite for a relevant team.
In this case your absence from the thread was probably an oversight, but in general there could be a very good reason for it
I disagree, and I think you'll see what I mean when you shift the frame of reference from "person working at a large company with Office 365 installed" to a couple hundred million average Joe's having access to it at home.
Webs search is now a horrifying wasteland, and people know it. Remember the conversations we all had just a few years ago: LLM will replace web search. That's the key point here - not "replace web search" for the subset of people who have office jobs, but web search for the vastly greater number of people who just have it at home on their computer.
The tech - the products - are good enough for your average person at home who wants a starting point and a structure to work through for something they know nothing about. I think that's actually one of the strengths of the tech as it exists for the winder audience: you don't really need ultra accurate, super precise, info and checklists and guides when you just want to know what to look into to do some decorative tiling on the top of an old table you bought; a way to make sense of and work through a type of pop media you have become interested in; to give you a starting point to work through some new problem you have encountered in day to day life.
That "80 percent vaguely accurate-ish" threshold that LLMs can broadly deliver for a novice is actually good enough for that vast majority of things people deal with that aren't really super-critical. Are you idly curious about some ways to think about how to replant and re-do your back yard greenery? Curious about how to make sense of all the competing numbers and criteria and features when looking to buy your first air-conditioner? Want to take a vague, repetitive, not very well put together response to something your neighbor starting holding forth on on Nextdoor and make it tighter and better expressed?
That little Copilot icon that comes default in Windows legitimately can help you there.
Even if this is my company not paying for the license, it seems like a pretty miserable way for Microsoft to try to tempt companies into buying one by delivering a completely useless “light” experience.
Everything you’re describing that’s wonderful about the Windows copilot button is the stuff I’m already doing on ChatGPT.com because that brand name came first.
Windows 11 in general pushes so much unwanted crap at us in ways that we can't control that it's reasonable to assume IT can't make the icons go away if they wanted to. And investing time building a workflow that disappears when IT has finally figured out how to nuke it (if that's the intent) isn't worth the risk.
For reference I work at a hospital so generally IT is extremely sensitive about potential breaches and leaks. In general the policy is we are allowed to use LLM. The organization is on Azure but I can't even find anyone in IT to tell me if we are even allowed to use Power platform (which is also in this weird state of letting you build things but they don't actually work). CoPilot is there ... ish. It's just not very powerful at all.
In power platform it's very easy to make an oopsie and expose huge volumes of data on some unprotected object storage or an external platform. We have a big review process on such developments, we certainly don't want users to cowboy that on their own.
It's basically the old "Thumbdrive left in a taxi" these days. With the huge difference that these things now lead to huge fines under GDPR etc.
This kills the crab. I mean, kills the Internet. And it's not clear what happens to the existing search advertising business in this scenario.
I’m just not sure why that makes any bit of sense as a product growth strategy.
Instead of trialing an amazing experience they’re just showing their customers that copilot sucks. But if you buy a license it’s awesome, we promise!
Why not actually give me something useful and then cut me off from access when I hit a usage cap? Then uncapping my usage is the upsell. Literally copy what OpenAI does.
We make heavy utilization of Copilot Studio lite and full. Lite has quick access to SharePoint/Teams data. Full has access to _any_ data that has a Power Platform connector, REST API, MCP server, or Copilot [Graph] connector, all of which you can build or buy yourself. SAP, SQL, Databricks, you name it, Copilot Studio full can consume it.
It sounds like you don't have an M365 Copilot license but are instead using Copilot 365 Chat (the naming is horrid, absolutely).
Not a very compelling product in terms of tempting companies to buy a license.
In the pattern I described, Microsoft would just enable this feature for everyone and sit back and wait for employees to start begging their employers to expand their license because they got a taste of some great functionality.
That’s exactly what OpenAI does with ChatGPT Pro.
If you have a tab selector "Work / Web" at the top, you do have the paid version. Select Work to make it able to find stuff in sharepoint, look at your calendar and emails etc.
If you don't have this selector you only have the free version.
> If the normal search system has access to the data why doesn’t copilot? Surely it would be trivial for Microsoft to run copilot in a way that keeps company data private so that they could actually turn it on and make it useful by default.
Upselling of course. Finding stuff in the gigantic trash heap that is Sharepoint is its main added value for me.
Also, RAG will cost a lot more compute.
Websearch is dying since some more than 10 years. It was stabbed in the back by greed (ads, SEO). LLM is just the nail in the coffin.
"Clippy never wanted to harvest you, turn you into the product, and clandestinely copy your stuff into some language model. Clippy only wanted to help."
* https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Clippy_Campaign
I'm using Win 11 and I didn't even notice Copilot on my task bar until you mentioned it...
I think that is a wakeup call for me to finally flash my pc to linux
It also disregards a big chunk of people not using Windows, where the little Copilot icon is not built in.
A thing that gets in the way is not usable, is annoying.
I personally thinks this just pisses people off. It certainly does me. I don't want to be told what to do, especially by some vendor. If I don't want to use it I don't want to be herded into using it. If they try anyway I will just push back and start hating on it just out of annoyance.
However this has always been Microsoft's adoption model. Very pushy. Unlike for example Apple's where they make things look, feel and work really good so people actually want to use it.
Yes that is inevitable. But it's exactly why I won't use it. It feels like a scam, the typical drug dealer model. Get them hooked on free stuff, and then milk their addiction.
I almost only use local LLMs now. They're not as good, no. But at least they are mine and nobody will raise the price suddenly. Some pro AI models I just use with API, for the rare instance where local just doesn't cut it. It costs me a few bucks per month that way, not 20 or 30.
Traditional search works fine.
But only for paid users. Free users can't have access (and also there is zero custom integration on the free version).
If you see a work and web tab at the top, click work. Then it should be able to. If you don't see this, your company is not paying and it just won't work.
Are there any companies solving LLM-based interactions with arbitrary messy spreadsheets?
Not the nice demo ones with a single consistent table and maybe some charts/PivotTables - the ones with 20 sheets each of which has 3-4 different data tables laid out side by side, which should be linked to each other but likely aren't?
I've long thought that one could build a probabilistic graph representation, annotated with text, of "this is the likely meaning of this area in the sheet, this is how it relates to other columns in other areas, formulas are inconsistent in this way," allow an LLM to ask questions of a tool that can traverse this graph until it determines an optimal plan, and allow it to output and iterate on e.g. xlwings code to execute that plan.
I'm frankly surprised Microsoft didn't create an entire "skunkworks" for this problem - is anyone else doing so?
Of course all the people asking for these were already very interested in AI so they are not a very representative group. We did take that into account.
They changed how that key works at a low level so it cannot be cleanly remapped back to right-CTRL. This is because, unlike the CTRL, ALT, Shift and Windows keys, the now-CoPilot key no longer behaves like a modifier key. Now when you press the CoPilot key down it generates both key down and key up events - even when you keep it pressed down. You can work around this somewhat with clever key remapping in tools like AutoHotKey but it is literally impossible to fully restore that key back so it will behave like a true modifier key such as right-CTRL in all contexts. There are a limited number of true modifier keys built into a laptop. Stealing one of them to upsell a monetized service is shitty but intentionally preventing anyone from being able to restore it goes beyond shitty to just maliciously evil.
I havent tried it anywhere else to be fair
CoPilot is really sending: Shift+Alt+Win+Ctrl+F23. When you remap the CoPilot key to right-Ctrl only the F23 is being remapped to right-Ctrl. Due to the way Windows works and because MSFT is now sending F23 DOWN and then F23 UP when the CoPilot key has only been pressed Down, the other modifiers remain pressed down when our remapped key is sent.
So, what's happening now when you press CoPilot after remapping it to Right-Ctrl... the keys actually being sent are: Shift+Alt+Win+Right-Ctrl (there are also some other keypresses in there that are masked). If your use case doesn't care that Shift, Alt and Win are also pressed with Right-Ctrl - then it'll seem fine - but it isn't. Your CoPilot key remapped to Right-Ctrl no longer works like it did before or like Left-Ctrl still works (no other modifiers). Unfortunately, a lot of shortcuts (including several common Windows desktop shortcuts) involve Ctrl in combination with other modifiers. Those shortcuts will still work with Left-Ctrl but not CoPilot remapped to Right-Ctrl. And there's no way to fix it with remapping (whether AutoHotKey, PowerToys, Registry Key, etc). It might be possible to fix it with a low-level service running below the level of Windows with full admin control which intercepts the generated keys before Windows ever sees them - but as far as I know, no one has succeeded in creating that.
I know power toys has that setting for low level hook but I think it's only for the windows key
Indeed.
> I know power toys has that setting for low level hook but I think it's only for the windows key
As far as I've been able to determine, PowerToys remapping is the same application level mapping that can be done with AutoHotKey, other similar programs and manual registry keys.
However, I've had no issue remapping it to the Context Menu key on the Chinese Lenovo Xiao Xin laptop I bought recently. It shows up in the PowerToys keyboard remapper tool as an F23 key. (Yes, there are more than 12 F key codes! I believe there is 24 in Windows.)
Other OSes will not even be able to say things like "Press your Copilot key to open FEDORA SEARCH" or whatever without being cease'n'desisted to high heaven.
Terrible.
That's probably because you're not using it as a modifier so the OP's complaint of the automatic key-up event doesn't impact you (it's not necessary to have a keep-pressed state in this type of use).
The CoPilot key is really sending: Shift+Alt+Win+Ctrl+F23 which Windows now uses as the shortcut to run the CoPilot application. When you remap the CoPilot key to right-Ctrl only the F23 is being remapped to right-Ctrl. Due to the way Windows works and because MSFT is now sending F23 DOWN and then F23 UP when the CoPilot key has only been pressed Down but not yet released, those other modifiers remain pressed down when our remapped key is sent. I don't know if this was intentional on MSFT's part to break full remapping or if it's a bug. Either way, it's certainly non-standard and completely unnecessary. It would still work for calling the CoPilot app to wait for the CoPilot key to be released to send the F23 KEY UP event. That's the standard method and would allow full remapping of the key.
But instead, when you press CoPilot after remapping it to Right-Ctrl... the keys actually being sent are: Shift+Alt+Win+Right-Ctrl (there are also some other keypresses in there that are masked). If your use case doesn't care that Shift, Alt and Win are also pressed with Right-Ctrl then it'll seem fine - but it isn't. Your CoPilot key remapped to Right-Ctrl no longer works like it did before or like Left-Ctrl still works (sending no other modifiers). Unfortunately, a lot of shortcuts (including several common Windows desktop shortcuts) involve Ctrl in combination with other modifiers. Those shortcuts still work with Left-Ctrl but not CoPilot remapped to Right-Ctrl. And there's no way to fix it with remapping (whether AutoHotKey, PowerToys, Registry Key, etc). It might be possible to fix it with a service running below the level of Windows with full admin control which intercepts the generated keys before Windows ever sees them - but as far as I know, no one has succeeded in creating that.
What??? Who has introduced that, is there a reason, why they are using all the modifiers?
Using more modifiers reduces the odds of conflicting with any other existing shortcut/hotkey - and since the intent is that the combination is only ever generated automatically with the CoPilot key - there's no issue with users having to remember or perform it. The problem isn't with them using all those modifiers, it's that they are doing it in a non-standard way that breaks remapping that key. They could have easily used all those modifiers in a way that doesn't break full remapping.
Put the LLM on answering (or at least triaging) your support tickets faster.
Plus for 10$ a month (~8.50 EUR last month) I get more-than-enough-for-me access to Gemini, Claude and OpenAI models from my code editor. I wouldn't pay double for Claude Code or Cursor, so I feel like it's a good enough deal.
Copilot doesn't run on Microsoft's own LLMs, they're all third party. ChatGPT in office copilot, in github you can choose various other ones too.
Microsoft is really just a reseller there.
Personally I think Claude Code (with Opus in particular) is far better. Unfortunately they are very aware of this and thus it is eyewateringly expensive.
Besides, I just recently saw a review of the newest Copilot for Excel by a serious spreadsheet jockey, and he was truly blown away. Basically, it knows everything Excel can do, how to do it, and it now truly understands numbers as numbers and when to use formulas, etc. etc. Basically, it went from smart automation to full on AI.
If Microsoft doesn't fall for short term thinking, the product will eventually succeed.
Possibly the Office Agent can become a V2 of what M365 Copilot was originally sold as. It's not at all surprising that it takes a few years to figure out what LLMs can really be used for in Office tools. Whereas asking for businesses to fund all these experiments with a $30pupm license is not the best move to create early adoption and fans...
If only asking from Copilot in a chat, the results are less spectacular or reliable. That just shows how a chat UI isn't the best solution for everything. Yet taking the M365 Search terms as input for the LLM to translate into a query that doesn't require the user to know the exact keyword to search - yes, that's a clear step forward.
And Graph grounding remains one of the features behind the premium license. So, only ~2% of M365 users will currently see this benefit. Unless the pay-as-you-go pricing option has huge adoption that we don't have any leaked figures on yet.
Changing the name of the entire Office suite into Copilot didn't make things better. Now you have no idea of knowing what you are really getting. Is Office Copilot? Is Copilot Office? Is Office AI? Is AI Copilot? Is time real or just a concept? Who knows? The strongest product in Microsoft's portfolio with an established name is now gone.
Give it a year and it will be renamed again to Microsoft Teams 365 Copilot Enterprise with Office subsystem for Windows Business. Just to cover all bases.
Copilot is often wordy, wrong, and seems like it can't do a lot of the same things I can accomplish without logging in on ChatGPT
something, something, clown world
You’re a company whose main product has a brand recognition that ranks right up there with Coca-Cola and Apple, and you rename it after a new product that is a pile of hot garbage. Absolutely mind-boggling.
Even the "productivity" suggestions in teams are ridiculous - one of them is "roast me by my calendar"...wtf is that? How is that related to productivity at all?
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