5d ago

Microsoft's Attempts to Sell AI Agents Are Turning Into a Disaster

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That's really unsurprising. I don't know what the MS guys are smoking but I need some urgently.
Also, has there been anything, in recent memory, that Microsoft has tried to do that was new, and has been a success?
Seems to me for the past 15 years they have just:
Made their existing products worse;
Acquired other products and destroyed them;
Tried new things that flopped monumentally.
We are so lucky to live in a society were the merit of one's product and company dictates their market success /s
- Azure has taken quite nicely
- Azure and Teams. The former makes them waaaaaaay more money of course. Other than that it's been a trainwreck. Gamepass was relatively novel but increased the price so much as to make it unviable for most people, that's before you get into the plague of issues with it like controller compatibility, which is itself a problem of Microsoft's own making.
  
  Ah I thought azure was a bit older than this. My bad.
  As for Teams I personally include it in the category of acquiring Skype and ruining it but you're right, it is technically a new product that is sadly successful...
- Also, has there been anything, in recent memory, that Microsoft has tried to do that was new, and has been a success?
  Arguably not totally new, but quite the success: lobbying for big corporate IT to use their shitty products and enforce use of them onto all users.
  
  I feel like that's been going on from pretty much the very start, or at the very least right after they put a chokehold on OEMs for them to put windows on desktops by default. Have they been recently pushing even harder or in newer ways I'm not aware of?
- After MS ruining a couple of products, I abandoned them. Everything they try to do is a fad. They have no innovation and quit way too fast. Google is their twin. Checkout my essay on it at my Google+ profile... oh wait, never mind.
  
  I'll read it while listening to some banging tunes one my Zune. I made the playlist using Bing, on my Windows phone, it's so good.
- The Todo list app they make is pretty good......can't think of anything else
  
  The summer intern work doing some heavy lifting here.
  
  But they just had to go and call it To Do so every time I search todo, it doesn’t come up as the first result
  <facepalm>
- The halo series?
  
  Started in 2001 by Bungie, under some MS branch and getting worse since 2010? I'd say that falls squarely in my second category.
And this fucking clown show is the reason why I can't buy an SSD for neither my desktop nor my old ThinkPad!
- You don't need an SSD if all your personal and sensitive data is in the corpo approved cloud and you just ask nicely the AI agent to access it.
An AI Agents tab popped up in my admin panel this week. I went through the settings and was able to disable it across my org. For security purposes of course.
- I noticed that power automate was lumped into the agents section. So mainly went with the disable 3rd party settings. Since you know, that's enabled by default like a bunch of other settings.

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