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Microsoft pushes staff to use internal AI tools more, and may consider this in reviews. 'Using AI is no longer optional.' (www.businessinsider.com)

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[–] renard_roux@beehaw.org 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'm starting to root for Microsoft's failure these days, because they haven't done anything useful or innovative since the pandemic.

That is the most insanely generous thing I've read in years. What the — pardon my French — fucking fuck have they done that was useful or innovative in the last 20 years?! 🤯

[–] SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

I have a few examples:

Flight Sim 2020
Windows Defender is the best antivirus, better than all those paid crapware antiviruses
An attempt at an independent browser engine that wasn't the dated IE
This is a hot take but seamless integration of local file storage with OneDrive. Yes, they are way too heavy-handed about forcing this on you and it's really stupid how it moves your files without telling you, but I've never seen a file manager that handles both local and cloud files faster than W10's file manager (a big part of the reason why I was mad about W11, because that advantage disappeared)

The only useful thing I can think of after the pandemic is the CPU scheduling updates for Alder Lake, but that was pretty much a necessity. Everything else is AI overhype, rewriting programs to make them slower, and/or yet another way to invade people's privacy