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Microsoft abandons personal AI chatbot race with Copilot reboot

157 points · 154 comments · sbulaev

  1. TuringNYC · · focus · HN ↗
    My blood pressure rises everytime i use Enterprise Copilot at work. It seems they truncate message history heavily (to save input token costs?) and Copilot forgets the last thing you told it in the chat. It is like a real-life version of Momento (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.imdb.com&#x2F;title&#x2F;tt0209144&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.imdb.com&#x2F;title&#x2F;tt0209144&#x2F;) mixed with Waiting for Gadot (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Waiting_for_Godot" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Waiting_for_Godot), pretending to be in league with Anthropic.
    1. light_triad · · focus · HN ↗
      You&#x27;re right using Microsoft products is like mixing Momento with Waiting for Gadot :)

      I recently switched to New Outlook and it&#x27;s full of weird subtle bugs. It takes them years to fix things and make them barely useable. Given their track record I&#x27;m not optimistic for Copilot given both the vision and the execution are questionable at best.

      1. RoadieRoller · · focus · HN ↗
        My employer installed the new Outlook in the background, and it was forcing me to switch to the new every time I use the old version.

        I had to edit Windows Registry to avoid getting prompted every time I open old outlook. I didn’t like the looks or the bugs in the new version.

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