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Satya Nadella insists people are using Microsoft’s Copilot AI a lot (techcrunch.com)
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[–] 27 points 8 months ago (10 children)

Isn't Copilot integrated with the Windows taskbar search?

I think the sole reason Copilot is used at all is because they've forced it in applications it has no place in, and requires it remain on by default.

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  • [–] 17 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    I have never liked having a search box in the taskbar. My taskbar is for pinned programs, open programs, volume, Ethernet/wifi, and a clock. Nothing more.

    You can remove copilot from windows 11 completely now...with an outside program.

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  • [–] 16 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    I love having a search box on my taskbar. I want it to search my PC for installed apps and files and nothing else. I certainly don't want to do a fucking Bing search for "Settings"

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    yeah, I actually like it now, but that's mostly because they made the start menu so fucked up and full of shit

    I've adjusted to just hitting start and typing the first few characters of what I want to open and slapping enter. I'm okay with that process, I actually kind of like it. I don't need to look at what's going on and I don't need to move my hand over to the mouse. The only problem, and this is kind of a big thing, is that yeah it doesn't search just my fucking installed programs, and sometimes it just opens another program that doesn't even match what I typed. so the 60% success rate at best is kind of a big failure

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    When I'm imagining some Win3.11-style UI, like in Star Wars: Rebellion game, I feel that a search box in the taskbar would be fine. The results should come up in a new normal separate window, of course. Not in a poisoned version of star menu.

    The issue is not with having a control element in the taskbar. The issue is with those control elements being very hard to use. The response times are bad. The elements are not clearly separated. The results coming up are hard to navigate. It's as if you were badly drugged and trying to find something in a heap of black sheets with luminous text in a dark room.

    And also dynamic search on every change of that field is idiotic. They might do auto-completion if it's fast.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    The original Copilot is GitHub Copilot which is a coding assistant and it's very popular and useful for developers. I think most of the paying copilot customers and usage are coming from there.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    It only makes sense economically when they have as many people as possible using it and giving feedback.

    Where feedback can be concealed, like how your actions after requesting advice correlate with it, or whether you clarify your request and how many times.

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