When I read this and saw the link was for Top Gear, I immediately heard "in the wooooorld" in Clarkson's voice! This gave me a laugh which I needed today. Thanks!!!

I'd love to see what else is on the CC bills for people that are buying essentials on credit. I'm not trying to deflect from a very real issue but more information is needed to paint the true picture.

I know a number of people under water with CC debt and are charging their groceries. I want to feel bad for them but then they are also charging starbucks 6 days a week, gas for their trucks, 4-5 streaming services, and also door dash a couple of days a week. Toss in a new iPhone/airpods/tablet throughout the year. They blame their CC bills being high on car repairs and refuse to acknowledge that they're dieing the death by a thousand cuts.

It sucks that people like this are more common than not because they're eclipsing the faction of people that are legit screwed and are in an awful situation like this.

If a vendor starts picking and choosing the cards they accept (which is the natural direction this would go), then that will leave consumers dealing with a la carte acceptance of cards from merchants.

Am I the only one that sees the similarities of the streaming wars where everyone wanted to unbundle services like HBO and Disney from the cable providers?

We're talking about credit card companies here. Whatever is the most profitable for them is the direction they'll push merchants to which always results in the customers convenience being crushed (again). Case and point: the recent price hikes of streaming services which have uncoupled from the scary cable mafia.

If you have a good product, people will use it. If you have a shit product, then having a Matt Damon peddle it will only expose how shitty it is to even more people.

If you have a good product, organic growth will happen and you'll create brand loyalty.

Oh wait... This is Microsoft. Never mind.

What kind of world are we living in when we're rooting for the banks to win in this fight?

"Insert credit card here"
"Swipe your card here"
"Tap here to pay"

My tip of 20% must not be enough.

We've got Outlook classic, new Outlook, and soon we'll have new new Outlook?

It's fucking email. Electronic Mail. Treat it as such. If you think you need AI to help you handle that, then there's something very broken and you should probably look in the mirror.

Y2K came 25 years too early.

For a minute there I thought you were referring to my boss

Which devices are worse for shitting on "consumers" with ads: Google or Amazon?

"Have you ever tried simply turning off the TV, sitting down with your children, and hitting them?"

Fixed that for you

I thought their gimmick was to release a "thinner" version of the previous model while and ignoring that people want better battery life.

If you haven't dealt with it yet, there's 3rd party agents like read.ai which are infesting Teams meetings. At this point, copilot isn't nearly as awful compared to those!

Since MS is baking copilot into everything, I wonder how long until they weaponize copilot like this. Years ago when they had Delve in O365, I had a manager using that to keep track of the documentation I was working on and we got into a pretty nasty argument when he was critiquing a doc that was in the ROUGH DRAFTS folder because... you know... it wasn't completed... because... it was a rough draft.

It wouldn't take much for them to use copilot to aggregate the metrics with your emails received/sent, reading/scrolling time on an email, various docs, and Teams messages. That data could be used to infer how "busy" (idle?) you are.