[epolanski]

On top of that: it seems like Microsoft (and Google too) is doing its best at alienating customers with those measures.

Everything is now either accessing your data directly and you have to opt-out or you can't even opt out at all.

This AI rush/push is also permeating every line and product: from the office suite, to github, to vscode, and even open source tools are getting AI shoved in, like Playwright, and it feels everything else is an afterthought.

It seems Nadya is making a Ballmer-level play. Ballmer had the right intuition: that Microsoft had to move its focus from the desktop to the cloud. But the execution was poor. Now history's repeating.

[sheepscreek]

It’s a perception problem AMPLIFIED by a trust problem. People don’t trust Microsoft. Or at least they trust Google more than they trust Microsoft.

For a small period of time, I was actually using Edge + Copilot everyday (and it was decent) but their competition has improved so much and appears WAY more privacy focused. I know that Sam Altman is trying hard to stay within the bounds of people’s trust, which once broken is hard to replace (he even said so in an interview).

[BizarroLand]

I'll trust Sam Altman as far as I can throw him.

For now he doesn't seem like a bad actor in the AI industry.

However, the moment it becomes more sustainably profitable to grow a mustache and start wearing monocles he likely will, and if he doesn't he'll be ousted and replaced by someone far worse.

[epolanski]

> For now he doesn't seem like a bad actor in the AI industry.

You may want to take a closer look at Altman's persona.

[BizarroLand]

I did specifically filter for "actor in the AI industry"