9 comments

  • techniko 3 hours ago
    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.
  • wolvoleo 3 hours ago
    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.

  • kingleopold 4 hours ago
    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.
    • downrightmike 3 hours ago
      Its pretty good about taking powerpoints and turning them into HTML
      • Scoundreller 1 hour ago
        I’ve used it to combine excel spreadsheets pretty well.

        Got a bunch of comments in one spreadsheet but now I have an updated version without comments, move those comments over.

        Can give it some pseudo-code type of prompt. There are probably better ways to do it but this requires less cognitive load/skill for most.

      • ano-ther 3 hours ago
        Also fairly decent at finding a specific slide from a year ago.
  • joebuckwilliams 4 hours ago
    The 4.5% statistic is not attributed. I doubt its validity. This is a bad article.
  • kbelder 3 hours ago
    "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?

  • bigbuppo 4 hours ago
    And they'll keep laying off more divisions until it's down to 0.5%!
    • downrightmike 3 hours ago
      Gotta move money into the bubble while they can
  • hungryhobbit 4 hours ago
    Thank you for this lovely bit of schadenfreude!
  • jamesrodriguez6 4 hours ago
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