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Nobody wants Copilot Pro AI for Office 365 — so Microsoft will force-bundle it and raise the price (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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[–] zoostation@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I hate AI as much as anyone, but this article is shitty fearmongering. Buried at the end it admits there's actually no price increase, there's just a new tier with optional features.

A “classic” Office 365 subscription will be available at the old price if you really don’t want the AI — for now.

[–] self@awful.systems 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

congrats on just learning about the corporation named “Microsoft”

now fuck off

[–] self@awful.systems 18 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

consider the raw, stupid energy of reporting me to myself for violating a civility rule that doesn’t exist and never will

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Trump won dontcha know now it's time for C I V I L I T Y

[–] self@awful.systems 10 points 2 weeks ago

that’s absolutely the ploy — in almost every instance, civility rules are used to punish marginalized people while giving polite fascists a pass (and the ability to normalize the behavior of impolite fascists)

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 4 points 2 weeks ago

We should harness this and power ChatGPT with it

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Not really fear mongering, when Microsoft has proven that the "for now" is held up. Like the whole Recall fiasco. They canceled it "for now", and now it's published. Their "for now" is actually "for just right now, until heat subsides". Microsoft can go suck on a tailpipe.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 2 weeks ago

Australian users are already reporting they can't actually find the "classic" option at all.

[–] subignition@piefed.social 6 points 2 weeks ago

"for now" doing some extremely heavy lifting there