Remember when we were all techno-optimists who thought we would end up with 401Ms and even 401Gs? We're as dumb as the flying-car believers.

Both major parties are bought and paid for by the same billionaires. We have a one party system with a thin veneer of choice. Good luck voting your way out of this.

No, don't you know that under capitalism markets will self regulate to achieve the optimal in... *cough cough* outcome? Buyers can self organize to avoid buying from harmful monopolies and oligopolies and instead choose to just die! And, if buyers are really upset they can just purchase politicians at a higher price than the harmful corporations do.

"with some employees complaining about issues with style, paragraph formatting, blank pages, and challenges with tracking changes." sounds like they got the replacement they were looking for to me.

"All you need to do" is not realistically feasible in this case.

It sometimes just takes a little while. Unless the human race leans to not give any power to greedy assholes, the future does not look good at all.

They are taking the last chance they have before absolutely everybody can see they have no future.

I wonder how many will fail it and buy in.

They will know that on some level. But I highly doubt they understand that. They have had ample warning that they are trying to do things cheaper than possible with their cloud getting hacked several times now and their constant issues with Windows and Office. But they learned nothing from that. They still believe they have good, competitive products when all that keeps them alive is momentum.

Add their politically motivated blocking of professional users (that backfired extremely) and I do not think Microslop has a future.

Hopefully. I think the chances for that are pretty good.

Yes. And with the level of "quality" Microslop is delivering, I see that as a good thing.

There are solid indicators that say writing software via prompt takes quite a bit more skill than doing it directly. At least if your software should be secure, maintainable and usable. Of course, Microslop is aiming for neither of these qualities...

From the continued enshittification of their products, I thought MS was already doing everything with "AI"?

Microsoft has made sure they are fundamentally incapable of hiring competent people. It is not compatible with their business model.

Microsoft has no employees left that know how to make a quality product anyways.