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To: yesthatjallen

Microsoft copilot is absolutely worthless


2 posted on 04/04/2026 5:35:54 AM PDT by rdcbn1 (..when poets buy guns, tourist season is over................Walter R. Mead)
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To: rdcbn1

It has actually been useful for walking me through setting up complex Excel spreadsheets and helping to interface with Google Applications, but I prefer Gemini or Grok for most AI Functions. Gemini has been very useful for my pure research functions (like having an assistant to do the manual referencing etc.) But I don’t trust it for pure advice. And I always check the references.


5 posted on 04/04/2026 5:41:19 AM PDT by Judge Bean
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To: rdcbn1

It is not completely useless. I have used it to generate code in OpenSCAD for geometric models. That being said, it can and does make mistakes. I had to suffer with it for it’s belief that trig functions required arguments in radians, when in fact it was in degrees. Once I quoted the user manual, it finally agreed, but made no apology.


6 posted on 04/04/2026 5:51:13 AM PDT by omni-scientist
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To: rdcbn1

My work paid for laptop bricked itself during an automated software update.
MS is in real trouble on W11


17 posted on 04/04/2026 6:41:03 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: rdcbn1

No, no, it is great.

Like your neighbor putting a “Gun free zone” on his front lawn. It draws the burglars, away from you.

Anyone who still has Copilot on their PC (since it is easy to remove) will draw the hackers — and leave me alone.


29 posted on 04/04/2026 7:23:17 AM PDT by bobbo666
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If you use Bing search the first thing that pops up is copilot answering you. Eg.: if you ask it a question about cooking, all it does is repeat verbatim something from a website or Wikipedia.
41 posted on 04/04/2026 9:54:14 AM PDT by Fungi
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To: rdcbn1
Is there anything to replace Evernote?
44 posted on 04/04/2026 1:29:10 PM PDT by MosesKnows
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