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Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” (mander.xyz)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by fossilesque@mander.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] dan@upvote.au 44 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Are you including Github Copilot in that count? Technically that's a Microsoft product. It's probably the only Copilot that's actually useful.

[–] addie@feddit.uk 52 points 5 days ago (5 children)

A controversial take. Every new feature added to Github has made it more unpleasant to use, and a lot of that is down to Copilot, for me. Only way to get rid of it is to wait for Github to go down again, which is the only thing it does reliably at the moment.

[–] dan@upvote.au 15 points 5 days ago

I get the Pro version for free since I've worked on a few popular open-source projects. I'm using it in VS Code and it's helped me write code for systems I'm unfamiliar with. I've used it to summarize the architecture of open-source projects so I understand how to contribute new features. The autocompletion can be pretty good too. I also use it to review my code.

We use Claude Code with the Opus 4.5 model at work, and it's quite a bit better, but I don't want to pay that much for an AI model for personal projects since I use it so infrequently.

[–] dan@upvote.au 8 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Every new feature added to Github has made it more unpleasant to use

Free private repositories, Github Actions, and Github Packages are all pretty useful though. All of those were added under Microsoft's ownership. Actions got a head start because it was built on top of Azure DevOps infra that Microsoft had already created.

[–] moopet@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Free private repos were always available on Bitbucket (for example) before that though. The things added by Microsoft were all catch-up.

[–] dan@upvote.au 1 points 3 days ago

They lose money from it (people that used to pay for an account to get private repos no longer need to) which is why Github didn't do it when they were independent.

[–] amju_wolf@pawb.social 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Github actions are famously extremely trash...

[–] dan@upvote.au 1 points 3 days ago

Plenty of open-source projects that I use are happy with them though. I see far fewer projects using Travis CI and AppVeyor these days for example.

[–] Xylight@lemdro.id 3 points 4 days ago

github also has the slowest, most unresponsive web interface ive ever used. it's genuinely impressive how they made a web app so slow

[–] utopiah@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

controversial take.

Nope, I agree, and so far you get only upvotes so... we agree.

[–] Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 days ago

You can get a plugin to hide it