No longer just a Copilot, Microsoft's AI wants to take the wheel

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/06/03/no-longer-just-a-copilot-microsofts-ai-wants-to-take-the-wheel/5250718

“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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Flying_Lynx@lemmy.ml · 40 pts · 64d (2 replies)

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.

DrunkenPirate@feddit.org · 14 pts · 64d (1 reply)

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.

reksas@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 63d

its just wasted electricity and water

MalReynolds@slrpnk.net · 31 pts · 64d (1 reply)

Back dooring subscription revenue for an OS you 'own'.

msage@programming.dev · 3 pts · 62d

You haven't owned Windows since 2012

frongt@lemmy.zip · 23 pts · 64d

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

treadful@lemmy.zip · 21 pts · 64d (12 replies)

Maybe AI can play my games for me now, too?

frongt@lemmy.zip · 17 pts · 64d (11 replies)
big_slap@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 64d (9 replies)

hoping this is one of those patents they can sit on so no one else does it lol

zebidiah@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 64d

JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org · -3 pts · 63d (7 replies)

I mean ... why not? There are a lot of things in games that simply just suck. Some games are requiring you to grind to gain some arbitrary stats to proceed. Or you need to do some things again and again to unlock the cool stuff. You are getting stuck on some stupid puzzles and need to google a solution, which is hidden in some multipart youtube play through. Or you simply do hate underwater or ice levels. It's your game, it's your time, why shouldn't you be able to skip that?

CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 63d

You can but you can:

  • A, Use an excessive amount of computing power to run an LLM agent to do it
  • B, Spend 5 minutes on youtube
  • C, The dev could just program in the option to skip
big_slap@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 63d

I feel like letting an AI do the work for you is robbing you of time you could've spent doing it yourself. it's a game at the end of the day, and if I'm passing time not even playing it myself, why don't I just save the money and just watch a playthrough online?

the grind and looking up how to do something myself is part of the fun. if something is so grindy I gotta let someone or something do it for me, why am I even here wasting my most valuable resource, you know?

MalMen@masto.pt · 1 pts · 63d (4 replies)

@JensSpahnpasta @big_slap thats called cheating... you can just not play a game that you dont like...

JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org · 2 pts · 63d (3 replies)

Yeah, I like to cheat in my single player games. No harm done and I have a lot of fun

badgermurphy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 63d (2 replies)
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JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org · 1 pts · 63d

Not every game has cheat codes?

imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 63d

Already existed, kind of.

TDCN@feddit.dk · 16 pts · 64d (1 reply)

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...

jestho@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 63d

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

Arrandee@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 64d

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.

DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth · 12 pts · 64d

Sounds awful.

jmp242@sopuli.xyz · 11 pts · 64d (2 replies)

I question the security and the cost of agents.

Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 64d (1 reply)

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.

jmp242@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 64d

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.

FreddiesLantern@leminal.space · 9 pts · 63d

I hope Europe takes this as a reason to abandon ms even further. Hell, ban it.

PushButton@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 62d

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.

kyub@discuss.tchncs.de · 8 pts · 63d (1 reply)

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.

INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 63d

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.

echodot@feddit.uk · 8 pts · 62d

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.

razen@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 62d

Their new AI will be named: Pilot

404found@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 64d

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.

Treczoks@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 63d

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.

itisileclerk@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 63d

I hope tha someone in microsoft will read this. Copilot is the worst AI so far. I am using Claude, DeepSeek, sometimes Gemini, sometimes ChatGPT, never Grok and Copilot. I tryed Copilot but always gave me wrong or vague answer.