Microsoft are removing the Copilot integrations in Notepad, Snipping Tool etc in Windows.

[gossithedog@cyberplace.social]

Microsoft are removing the Copilot integrations in Notepad, Snipping Tool etc in Windows.

Turns out telling PMs to bake Copilot into everything was a dumb idea.

[foo@cyberplace.social]

@GossiTheDog Scott Hanselman finally got his message through to the execs

[pauliehedron@infosec.exchange]

@GossiTheDog We keep up the pressure until it's removed from Windows.

[grumpasaurus@infosec.exchange]

@GossiTheDog are we at the "we need to focus on outcomes instead of chasing kpis" stage of AI product management

[davey_cakes@mastodon.ie]

@GossiTheDog they think this is them removing the unnecessary ones.

Someone needs to tell them.

[lukeharby@infosec.exchange]

@GossiTheDog Snipping tool

[shelldozer@oldbytes.space]

@GossiTheDog Hoo-bloody-rrah.

[kaaswe@swecyb.com]

@GossiTheDog
Finally one good move

[urig@mastodon.online]

@GossiTheDog too late. Damage already done. My trust in that OS is thoroughly eroded.

[pizzademon@mastodon.online]

@GossiTheDog 25 years ago I was a PM for an analytical app at a large ERP. Word came from on high that every product had to modify sales presentations to include Daily Business Close
We pushed back that anyone trying to generate results from our unit daily is doing it wrong. This was a quarterly or event driven tool for process reengineering
They made us add the boilerplate slide but we filibustered long enough that we never built the integration and the SVPs moved on to the new hotness.

[kbsez@mstdn.social]

@GossiTheDog

Microsoft has blown it in every possible way for the last 40 years.

The OS has only gotten worse as this shows, they blew it in the phone market, they've blown it in the app arena and if it wasn't for their locked in, 'we have no where to go' customer base they'd be out of business...

Now they're losing most of Europe as they go Linux and dump office and outlook services

[paul@oldfriends.live]

@kbsez Another big blunder was music and media. They screwed up Zune, ruined Media Player.

@GossiTheDog

[scvalex@mas.to]

@GossiTheDog Link to the blogpost:

https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2026/03/20/our-commitment-to-windows-quality/

[kbsez@mstdn.social]

@paul @GossiTheDog

Oh yeah--- but who can keep track of all of their failures, missteps and total screw ups.

[pa3weg@mastodon.social]

@GossiTheDog
"As part of this, we are reducing unnecessary Copilot entry points"

They should be deleting those entry points one by one until there is only one left: an application called Copilot that is optional and the majority of people won't install.

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus@cyberplace.social]

@GossiTheDog I'm not sure I entirely believe the "It's not that there's a gnawing hole in the balance sheet that demands sacrifice or a really lame machine cult in the c-suite; it's just that our PMs have failed glorious copilot" excuse for why MS ux what it is.

[dealiah@mastodon.sdf.org]

@kbsez @GossiTheDog

[ehproque@neopaquita.es]

@GossiTheDog that's a lot of admissions for so little text

[hermannus@stegodon.nl]

@GossiTheDog hahahahahahaha... oh boy... hahahahaha
So far for the internal checks and balances that got them there in the first place.
I think they fired the wrong employees...

[dealiah@mastodon.sdf.org]

@kbsez @GossiTheDog