Microsoft 365 Copilot

“many genuinely can't understand why us techies find it so limiting”

“Now I think the chat part is as good as what you'll get on the smaller subscriptions to ChatGPT or Claude”

“Copilot is proving to be a much better product strategy than anything OpenAI or Anthropic could do”

“The interface is bloated, slow, fugly and massively over-engineered.”

“The one with the worst chat interface in history.”

“It writes very nice, clean code with almost no comments.”

“I don't notice the answers being noticeably worse or anything like that.”

“Absolutely fantastic if your PDF is 1300 pages of concatenated reports”

“Cowork is the first part of copilot 365 that's actually useful, to me too. It is however paid separately per token”

“Copilot sucks but Microsoft is putting a ton of work into agent governance & identity”

“use the M365 copilot on top if you don't want to reinvent the wheel”

“it's critically underpowered for precisely the kind of knowledge work that the 365 power users need it for”

“this requires less cognitive load/skill for most”

“Also fairly decent at finding a specific slide from a year ago.”

“It's a bit quirky in that it won't accept a lot of file formats, but appending .txt to the end works.”

“Its pretty good about taking powerpoints and turning them into HTML”

“Copilot is just not performing well.”

“Copilot actually can search outlook emails on Mac. This is the greatest achievement of any AI.”

“make meaningful improvements to productivity and onboarding”

“the dedicated "Premium" Copilot is a completely different experience than the "Basic/Lobotomized" Copilot that comes with a standard Business subscription”

“Cheaper to get M365 Copilot licenses for the Claude models in Excel.”

“Most of the time, it's pretty useless.”

“It didn't really help me get more work done but it was pretty clutch at finding information.”

“"Microsoft Copilot" which is different from "Microsoft 365 Copilot"”

“toggling on the permissions for borderline useless copilot features across their enterprise 365 deployments”

“it can access all your stuff (messages, calendar, email, documents) and sythesise that all into helpful stuff”

“stuff that MS 365 Copilot will already do for you, but with much better defined barriers around what it can and cant access”

“it 100% fails to do the thing it was advertised to do 2 years ago when work initially got the subscription”

“it just feels like if they spent half the effort they spend on marketing on actually trying to make it do its job”

“where it could explain the principles behind every step”

“I actually like the Copilot interface in Office and Teams and the new start page. It serves my needs, but it’s a gateway to Office”

“It's a dumb name, but a dumb name for an app that's a little less dumb.”

“I don't really mind experimenting with Copilot but I don't want it at all on an established office machine”

“You type the question, Copilot tells you where to click.”

“the O365 Copilot experience is experiencing a MASSIVE pushback globally from teams and companies forced to use it”

“I'm actually impressed with M365 copilot when using it.”

“Being able to search your organisation's documents is kind of a killer feature, provided they make it work reliably.”

“The new version of 365 Copilot is objectively compelling, even if it is a work in progress.”

“it’s been extremely useful to the non-tech folks at my work”

“even Copilot (the Microsoft 365 for Business version) has been wildly popular where I work”