7 comments

  • WarOnPrivacy 8 hours ago
    Venture = CoPilot

    Below is how I contribute to MSCP flatlining.

        Get-AppxPackage -allusers *CoPilot* | Remove-AppxPackage -allusers
    • onedognight 7 hours ago
      While you are cleaning your Windows install of CoPilot, here’s the list[0] of packages that Microsoft themselves suggest removing.

      [0] https://github.com/microsoft/windows-dev-box-setup-scripts/b...

      • WarOnPrivacy 7 hours ago
        That's a classic list. I recognize some of those entries (...and I need to refresh my own list!)

        I did a search to see who else posted their debloating efforts.

            site:github.com "Microsoft.XboxIdentityProvider"  Remove-AppxPackage
    • 31337Logic 8 hours ago
      Hah. Thanks for doing your part, sir. But more importantly, thanks for sharing. ;-)
  • sydbarrett74 1 hour ago
    A decade ago, I held out hope that Nadella could rejuvenate Microsoft and allow it to recover from its complete miss with Windows Phone and the flirtation with mobile-first. A decade on, his repeated lapses have left me feeling Microsoft needs new leadership.
  • kazinator 1 hour ago
    Haha, just keep pretending Google doesn't exist!
  • solarkraft 6 hours ago
    I don’t know what they were thinking. They could’ve made it an offer, but pushing things on people like that just doesn’t work well.
    • consumer451 6 hours ago
      Microsoft is used to being able to push subpar products with no real repressions, due to their market share and sales channels.

      Fixing that culture is a herculean task, and there has been little financial incentive to do so.

    • knowitnone 2 hours ago
      Microsoft, being a monopoly, can do anything they want
  • kgwxd 37 minutes ago
    Does anyone really care about any tech companies any more?
  • medhir 6 hours ago
    looking at the way copilot was rolled out at Microsoft, none of this is particularly surprising.

    early on, they shoehorned LLMs into most of their products in the least thoughtful way possible — I guess leadership thought it best to move quietly for first-mover advantage.

    I remember looking at copilot enterprise pricing at that time and thinking “this is delusional.”

    and it still is! $31.50 per user, per month… that is more than most other LLM “pro” subscriptions. the value prop just never made sense when the outputs tend to be worse than what you get using ChatGPT.