Submitted 1 day ago by throws_lemy@reddthat.com to technology@lemmy.world
Get ready for:
clicks hyperlink
Entire page is scraped and sent to copilot LLM to be processed. This causes a 1.5 second delay
Then after you get passed the cookies popup and promo popup, the whole page shifts and gets injected with copilot summarizations right as you were about to click on something else.
Work forces me to use edge, this’ll be fun
Work forces me to use edge, this’ll be fun
Those absolute monsters.
How will this one be called? Also Copilot? Slopilot?
Microsoft 365 Copilot Edge Pro Express Home Edition with Teams 2027.
winget install Mozilla.Firefox winget install Google.Chrome
It’ll just be called Microsoft Copilot.
None of you are in an abusive relationship with the cruel mistress that is Windows and her accursed family and it shows.
Personally I’m excited for when they rerelease regedit as Windows Copilot, MFS as (Co)Pilot, and Purble Place as Copilot Kids Demo.
You forgot the (classic)
with Teams for Friends and Family
OMFG I’m crying
Sounds like it comes with a free trial of Norton.
Slodge?
Microsoft Copilot App (zero indication it’s web)
So just like M365 Copilot (actual name for the office app).
Edge Copilot 365
They tack 365 on every product for no reason.
Slo-pilot or Slop-a-lot works for me.
Explorer
M$ has done more to convince people that AI is bullshit than anyone else and I just want to thank them for their hard work.
Imagine using Edge when other browsers exist.
I use it on my work PC and I have to admit that it’s not that bad…
“What is my purpose?” “You download Firefox”
Yeah, same.
It’s not terrible, but it feels like it’s slowly becoming worse as they add new garbage. And especially if they start forcing a bunch of AI shit I’m out.
But I think a lot of people brush it off outright without really using it. Or, because it’s Lemmy, anything that’s not linux = bad.
Actually Edge prior to this was a fine browser. Like a lightweight chrome.
Remaining it to CoPilot Browser in 3…2…
or, just copilot
I hate Microsoft edge with a burning passion, and Microslop tries to force me to use it when I click any link from Outlook
Your tools actively make my job HARDER
It is so obnoxious. Fuck Microsoft, fuck Edge, and fuck Outlook.
Edge was fine, i use it at work to further separate personal use from work use further. It’s vertical tabs are top tier and being able to have the dev tools have vertical tabs is also a massive plots for productivity. However the latter is getting removed for seemingly no reason and once that’s gone there’s no boon to using edge anymore and I’ll just use a separate Firefox profile or use some chromium browser for work.
Firefox vertical tabs are better IMO. At least you can close them when minimized, which Edge cannot.
Edge was fine
When? it always sucked monkey balls… when MS finally gave up and turned Edge into basically chrome with an ugly theme, it was a leap forward… but they soon enshitified it so bad it quickly became a complete bloated mess
It does this from Outlook on android too. It’s horrid
“Seriuosly unpopular” and the base for that claim is a reddit post with 300 upvotes. Don’t get me wrong, fuck microslop and edge, but this title could not be more sensationalistic.
Step One: Install literally any other browser
Step Two: Make new browser the default
Step Three: Forget that Edge exists
Peace.
Step five:
Step 1: Linux
There are no other steps.
Get upset with my old tools that decide to open in edge anyway (vestiges of IE). Or the bullshit microslop pulls and opens their links in edge rather than the default.
Is that not what we already do?
It certainly should be.
How can you fumble a quasi-monopoly on desktop operating systems this hard
By changing from a company that produces a product for consumers to a company that produces stock value for share holders.
Remember this is the same company that had a huge lead and monopoly in the mobile OS market and they fucked that up royally.
When was that? I only remember Palm having a lead, and then Blackberry, and then iOS and Android. Windows CE and Windows Mobile were never more than also-rans.
MS doesn’t care about home users, hasn’t in a long, long time. Notice how they quit fighting piracy ages ago? The money is in commercial use.
If you’re running a Windows ecosystem, you can fine tune every aspect. If MS takes any of that tuning away, such as forcing AI, they risk killing the cash cow.
Because you think you have a full monopoly and everyone has no option but to put up with it.
I’m really loving this new Microslop name.
Ugh, that sucks. That domain could’ve been put to good satirical use.
Hopefully they’re just setting that up and in the meantime did this.
When do they rename Edge to Copilot Explorer. :)
Copilot Firefox Downloader
Internet Copilot
Ironfox, Cromite, Librewolf, Ungoogled Chromium, Orion, so many much better options nowadays.
Edge is built on Chromium
But that doesn’t mean Edge IS Chromium. Or that chromium is bad because of that.
There was almost no reason to use Edge to begin with not much changes here.
If it gets too bad, I suppose everyone still forced to use SlopilotOS will have to use Powershell to download Firefox. That is, until the SlopilotShell rebrand comes along.
Until they introduce Copilot in Powershell so that when you try do D/L another browser, it will chime in and explain you that you should first give a serious try to EdgePilot because it’s so much better and you won’t be disappointed! Here: I D/L its premium version instead of FF as you were trying to do, and I give you one month for free! \o/.
Who the fuck even uses Edge?
I used it once to download Firefox.
I used it today to add a signature to a PDF.
You will be judged harshly. Next time just use an install file on a USB, you know, like someone who isn’t a shit eating corporate shill guzzling the pendulous dong of microsoft, you piece of shit. I hate you and you deserve to be hated. Do better. Fuck.
/s, just in case…
Required to use edge by work.
Unfortunately, my workplace stuck on Windows due to specific software we utilize. We’re not bound to any browsers tho. I find it cool that our sysadmins use only Firefox. (Maybe not anymore with how Mozilla began to push AI in their browser.)
Yeah we are too. But for some strange reason the policy I deleted from my account appears to have been deleted from my account. Goodness knows how that happened.
It’s so stupid though we have some SAP modules that actually require Internet Explorer because they’re super duper old and have never been updated. So there are quite a few users that don’t actually have to follow that policy.
Hey now, you’ve got to use something to download Firefox on a brand new windows install.
I didn’t used to be this guy, but… LINUX.
Now when people try to use Bing Copilot app to download a normal web browser, it can talk them out of it while introducing them to all the other Copilots and their apps
This post gave me the last push to defy my employer’s stupid policies and install Waterfox in lieu of Edge… thanks MicroSlop
Did the article really not include a screenshot of the interface?
“We must negate the machines-that-think. Humans must set their own guidelines. This is not something machines can do. Reasoning depends upon programming, not on hardware, and we are the ultimate program! Our Jihad is a “dump program.” We dump the things which destroy us as humans!”
Microsoft aren’t content with 20 different UI styles in windows, they need a 21st. Especially after they saw the latest iOS design.
“Hey! Let’s take the new iOS design but without the transparency!”
Desperate move, desperate times.
My company pushes us to use copilot and I end up going back to chatgpt (I use them mainly as glorified search engines, error code debuggers and coding assistants). Copilot constantly has availability issues. Sort of tough to use a site that isn’t available.
Hmm slop, edge, sludge
People still use Internet Explorer - oh - I mean Edge?
At my work we call the ‘granny browser’.
Edge? The only people who use that are old boomers “because it came with the computer”.
Oh my slop!
Alpha71@lemmy.world 28 minutes ago
Meh. I disabled it in the registry
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 23 minutes ago
Edge or the slop? I’m not really a Windows guy.