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Nobody wants Copilot Pro AI for Office 365 — so Microsoft will force-bundle it and raise the price (pivot-to-ai.com)
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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

or just use LibreOffice

If you work in an office or for an office or are connected to an office ... let them pay for it and use the software on their systems.

It's also a great excuse to disconnect from the office anyway ... if someone calls you after hours to do work ... tell them you need to access your computer at the office and won't do the work until you get back to your desk.

Otherwise, if there is no requirement from anyone and you're just doing some word processing yourself at home or doing some basic spreadsheets ... just use Open Source Software ... there's plenty of them around.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

the catch is when you really need specifically O365 for some reason, e.g. we had to get the O365 download version for my kid's schooling because that was the specific version the "this is how you do office shit" classes were taught against, the online O365 didn't cut it

of course even the teacher was telling the kids "look you should just use libreoffice" lol

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Is the school providing the license? because if they're not, then it is a rough call to require and force parents to pay for a non essential tool. This is why FOSS is such a powerful education ally. It doesn't cost any of the end users any money. This kind of things is why people still think MS products as the default. MS spent a lot of money in marketing to force education to treat them as such.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

you are both correct and fatuous, which is an ideal combination

assume that in the past 25 years everyone here has heard the gospel of RMS

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

But why the downvote? Just because things suck we should just lie down and take it? We can at least talk about how it sucks and we wish it were different. There's nothing silly in wanting the world to be better.

[–] self@awful.systems 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

you are, without any sense of shame, evangelizing libreoffice to someone who compiled it straight from git like 12 hours ago because they use it constantly, in a community made entirely out of techies deeply involved with open source projects

and now you’re complaining that your weak shit got a tiny number of downvotes? cause we didn’t clap like seals at the mere idea of the existence of open source software? fuck right off, thanks

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

say friend, have you heard about our lord and saviour Richard

jooooin us nooow and shaaaare the soooooftware

[–] self@awful.systems 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

you’ve fucking done it

my next movie marathon is gonna be Revolution OS, Battlefield Earth, Antitrust, and then I’m going to go into a coma

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

no no! you have so much to live for! like

(#include )

never mind, knock yourself out and rise up in vengeance

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 1 points 2 years ago

may my revenant embody the stuff vc nightmares are made of

[–] zoostation@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I hate AI as much as anyone, but this article is shitty fearmongering. Buried at the end it admits there's actually no price increase, there's just a new tier with optional features.

A “classic” Office 365 subscription will be available at the old price if you really don’t want the AI — for now.

[–] self@awful.systems 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

congrats on just learning about the corporation named “Microsoft”

now fuck off

[–] self@awful.systems 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

consider the raw, stupid energy of reporting me to myself for violating a civility rule that doesn’t exist and never will

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Trump won dontcha know now it's time for C I V I L I T Y

[–] self@awful.systems 1 points 2 years ago

that’s absolutely the ploy — in almost every instance, civility rules are used to punish marginalized people while giving polite fascists a pass (and the ability to normalize the behavior of impolite fascists)