“What about people who don’t want to pay for an AI assistant to spruce up their documents and summarize emails? They are out of luck.”
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/microsoft-ai-assistant-copilot-365-suite-dfb293b3
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/microsoft-ai-assistant-copilot-365-suite-dfb293b3
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All the Google results, none of the AI or other crap.
https://www.consumer.org.nz/articles/you-don-t-have-to-pay-the-microsoft-365-price-increase
I've run several distros over the years but Mint has been the one I'm using of late, esp to give new life to old [former windows] laptops.
Looking forward to having it on a current desktop in the near future.
https://www.privacyguides.org/en/tools/
List of major distros:
https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=major
List of "Beginner-friendly" distros:
https://distrowatch.com/search.php?ostype=Linux&category=Beginners&origin=All&basedon=All¬basedon=None&desktop=All&architecture=All&package=All&rolling=All&isosize=All&netinstall=All&language=All&defaultinit=All&status=Active#simpleresults
but if you HAVE to get word and excel specifically. get the home and student edition. you pay more upfront, but its yours forever.
Years. Basically until Microsoft turns off the update servers and stops providing updates to that version
For companies, the subscription thing is easier to manage, but you’re usually paying for more than you use as it is.
Not sure what is worse. The AI uselessness or the crypto scamming.
Trick question! They’re both atrocious AND enviro killers to boot.
Makes on line gambling seem benign.
It's reducing your system to junk status by crashing it on repeat via extensive (ab)use, ultimately forcing you into buying another which will have Microsoft's AI pre-embedded even more forcefully.
https://bsky.app/profile/piyoinstitute.bsky.social/post/3ldvb4iaav22o
That's false advertising. AI *is* the BS.
If you buy into business AI you're a real sap.
Email jobs have always been pretend, and now it's one more step removed. smh.
https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/libreoffice/
(I am ofc going to delete this if this one doesn’t show up 😁)
Businesses have forgotten how to do business.
Telling customers they can vote with ther wallet was also a lie.
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/11/07/nobody-wants-copilot-pro-ai-for-office-365-so-microsoft-will-force-bundle-it-and-raise-the-price/