“It operates across cloud, desktop, and web, connecting to Teams, Outlook, OneDrive, and SharePoint, and to the data that powers your day, including chats, email, calendar, and contacts,” Omar Shahine, corporate VP of Microsoft Scout, wrote in the announcement

microslop is going completely nuts

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    So your Windows computer is minding its own business, reorganizing its schedule, creating lists of todos, and teaming with other AIs. It’s a bit like we did in the 80s where we took over dad’s computer and learned how to program. Good days.

    Anyway, for our own productive work we need a different computer with a different OS.

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      It more and more reminds me on Futurama and this chamber with the speaking heads in jar glasses. Just let those AI bots talk to each other and feel competent. In their little dull chamber.

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    You mean like when someone let an AI agent loose on her inbox and it deleted everything?

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    This will let you perform your pointless and demeaning corporate make-work bullshit job twice as fast, so your boss can flip a coin to decide whether its you or your colleague he will fire.

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    So nice! I can’t wait till I don’t have to use my computer at all anymore since it does everything on its own. Now I can go outside and play with my dog all day and enjoy the nice hot weather we are getting with all this global warming! I dont have to work anymore now yaaay! I still get paid right… right…

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      No! Get back on that treadmill and produce more electricity for your AI gods!

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      What about the utility? I would predict for every useful action there are three annoyances or errors this sort of in your face agent will cause.

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        Well, from Microsoft sure. I have been pretty impressed with Hermes agent, though not the cost. Claude Code was also pretty good, I think a bit easier to control the API costs in my limited testing, and had more repeatable security gates than Hermes seemed to. Then again, I think Hermes could do more.

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    I had a Microsoft account, for the times I had to use Windows or anything from that company.

    Man, I had to jump through loops to close my azure “services”, wait a few days “to make sure this what I want” and what not.

    At the end, there is a form with quite several checkboxes telling you what you are going to “lose” if you complete the deletion.

    Let’s say I do not miss these predatory practices.

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    Oh I see so they’ve finished with listening to their users have they? Back to business as usual buggering everything up.

    How long did that take, that was about 3 weeks.

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    What this also means: you cannot have any private conversations with windows users anymore. They all have to be considered fully backdoored. Even if the agent runs locally, you don’t know what it all sends back to MS servers.

    For people who have any slice of privacy consciousness left, this is the death of Windows. The difference between this and using a desktop directly from MS’ cloud is negligible - MS can get access to potentially everything that’s visible or readable on your desktop.

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      It’s not the death of windows, they will flourish. Most users don’t understand and so many more won’t care if they do.

      Any that do left years ago.

      Microsoft knows it, and they know that more will leave - a good few, but they priced it in.

      Continue doom scrolling? y/n.

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    Maybe figure out OneDrive and copilot before making such big promises? It’s going to be real fun as we try go navigate past more bugs because AI is messing up its tracking.

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    The term “Microsoft AI” is two big red flags. Nothing I want to be in a pilot seat, not even in one in a wind-up childrens toy.