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Comment Re:They Won't (Score 1) 111

They will if they want to keep the money rolling in from corporate site licenses, especially if those sites are doing government contracting or deal with PII, PHI, or other sensitive information like that.

This sounds great but the reality is most businesses won't drop MS products. People say it'll happen but it just isn't even in the vocabulary of leaders.

Good luck telling a company of even 100 users that they're not going to use Outlook or Excel anymore. It's hard enough de-programming people from believing they need Adobe just to open a simple PDF image from their scanner. Tell the bean counters in any company they have to use something aside from Excel and they'll have a bigger hissy fit than if you told a marketing person they can't have a Mac.

Comment Any publicity is good publicity (Score 1) 245

He keeps lobbing these bullshit "predictions" out there. People keep on clicking on the links. People keep on talking about him. This keeps him relevant. It's the same with the Kardashians and every other pop culture "personality".

It's real simple here people... just report facts if what is currently happening and what has happened. Then this goblin will go back into the shadows where he belongs.

Comment Re:They Won't (Score 1) 111

100% agree they're not going to pull back the features. If anything they're going to cut back on the marketing blitz and turn down the volume of all of the nagging but they won't pull these features out.

In light of the O364 issues, I wonder if this "pause" in copilot rollout is because their infrastructure couldn't handle the surge. We all know that Redmond doesn't give a shit about us or our complaints. What they do care about is the global news coverage when they have a major outage. This will buy them time to solidify their back end before force feeding everyone more kool-aid.

Lay low for a while and work on copilot_v2, avoid huge outages while looking "stable" compared to others, wait for the anti AI sentiment to calm down a little, keep the increased revenue from copilot licenses, and slowly start turning up the heat so gen-pop doesn't realize they're being boiled alive.

Comment Re:I worked at a place where we had a similar site (Score 2) 74

A number of companies still do this where they don't broadcast that someone has left the company. Absolutely maddening when someone is just GONE and no one says anything. They nag me about getting my expenses done but when I email the lady that was the POC for expenses and find out through the grapevine 10 days later that she's gone, then how the hell am I supposed to get my expenses done and I'm having an issue submitting?

I briefly worked at one place where they tried to mandate that I add someone from marketing on linkedin so they could ensure I'm not misrepresenting my role at the company.

Comment Re:We must do SOMETHING (Score 1) 115

This is something... therefore we must do it.

This is not a good solution. It does not solve the problem of people riding irresponsibly. It just adds cost and paperwork for people riding responsibly.

Just enforce the existing laws against riding irresponsibly.

Agreed and the same argument can be made about the reckless driving, and speeding, uninsured, or unregistered cars in the US. In communities where there is no enforcement of speed limits, people speed a lot. In communities where there is strict enforcement, people rarely speed.

If there is no enforcement of a rule, then people will ignore that rule.

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