I have to say the only part of copilot in m365 I really like is cowork. We have a preview version of it and it's great to spar with it and give it recurring tasks to do. Finally something that actually actively helps.
But that's billed separately on a token basis and cost really adds up.
The other stuff is just not so useful to me. I use it a bit to search for emails and teams chats but that's also cause the search in outlook and teams is so bad. It's not that I'm against AI; I use perplexity a lot personally, at work it's not allowed though. Copilot is just not performing well.
Work gave me a subscription so I use Opus in M365 Copilot rather than paying for my own Claude/ChatGPT/etc. It's a bit quirky in that it won't accept a lot of file formats, but appending .txt to the end works. I also use https://github.com/simonw/files-to-prompt to combine everything into one file which also helps.
It's just an entertainment product, not a frontier coding LLM or real capable AI. They say it's for entertainment too in their docs. What do they expect? It's probably directly competing with netflix, xbox etc.
"Less than 5% of Microsoft’s half a billion commercial Microsoft 365 customers pay for Copilot features"
Seems to me that 4.5% of 500 million isn't necessarily terrible. What should the rate be?
I have to say the only part of copilot in m365 I really like is cowork. We have a preview version of it and it's great to spar with it and give it recurring tasks to do. Finally something that actually actively helps.
But that's billed separately on a token basis and cost really adds up.
The other stuff is just not so useful to me. I use it a bit to search for emails and teams chats but that's also cause the search in outlook and teams is so bad. It's not that I'm against AI; I use perplexity a lot personally, at work it's not allowed though. Copilot is just not performing well.
I can imagine people don't really use it.
Work gave me a subscription so I use Opus in M365 Copilot rather than paying for my own Claude/ChatGPT/etc. It's a bit quirky in that it won't accept a lot of file formats, but appending .txt to the end works. I also use https://github.com/simonw/files-to-prompt to combine everything into one file which also helps.
It's just an entertainment product, not a frontier coding LLM or real capable AI. They say it's for entertainment too in their docs. What do they expect? It's probably directly competing with netflix, xbox etc.
Its pretty good about taking powerpoints and turning them into HTML
Also fairly decent at finding a specific slide from a year ago.
The 4.5% statistic is not attributed. I doubt its validity. This is a bad article.
More accurate information likely to come out of discovery in this securities class action lawsuit.
https://windowsforum.com/threads/microsoft-copilot-securitie...
And they'll keep laying off more divisions until it's down to 0.5%!
Gotta move money into the bubble while they can
Thank you for this lovely bit of schadenfreude!