I have used Microsoft products since their inception, having been a secretary or administrative assistant for the first 19 years of my working life. And I taught these products throughout the years. On the PC they are the best. But, they are large all-inclusive products. If you only do word processing, you get more program than you will every need. If you only use Excel, you still have to buy the full package. Their best product for the average user was MSWorks, but they abandoned that product, which was priced lower than the Office platform. MSWorks came installed on most computers by default. Most of the people I know wish MS Works was available to use. The Office products are too bulky for what the home user needs. So why force a large portion of users to buy a package that requires $99/year subscriptions. Over a 10-year period people are paying nearly $1000 for using these packages. It is a crime! Simplify things for the end user because many people are turning away from Microsoft because they just can’t afford it. The senior citizens using computers today, many who have never touched a computer, don’t need the big and bulky Office products. Please, Microsoft, bring back MSWorks!

It is so unhelpful. I want to just access and write documents. It's so annoying to have the LEADING interface be a chatbot. It should not be harder to access the actual function of Office 365 than to talk to the ChatGPT clone that dominates the functionality and user interface of the app, and yet it is. I'm concerned about how this is impacting vulnerable people who need to develop their own critical thinking and writing skills. I personally refuse to let a chatbot degrade my integrity, but I know a lot of other people still developing the skills of synthesis and analysis are not getting that skill because the temptation is too high when every research and word-processing platform starts off with a chatbot practically begging to write your emails and essays and texts for you. You are depriving people of their ability to build and maintain the skills of mentally processing information, of thinking, for themselves by making it easier to access a robot that wants to write for you and making it harder to even access the option to do things on your own.You aren't supposed to get everything perfect on the first try. You aren't supposed to bypass mistakes. You're supposed to build skills and learn by even having tried in the first place. I'm so tired of this. I hope this 'AI, think for me' culture dies out as fast as possible. I don't want to live in the world that results from people who cannot function without a chatbot telling them how to interact or compose a sentence.

WHAT a disappointment. I have been using CoPilot every day for the last year, and this last update has just destroyed everything that I loved about copilot. First off, I can’t believe they’re trying to charge me $20 a month. Limiting the free use is so tacky, and it’s not like they’re charging three dollars a month. $19? Are you kidding me? And most of us don’t need all the thousand different adaptations and integrating all these different apps. There should be unlimited free use for people who just want to talk to it. They’ve also changed its tone. It’s so stiff and it has changed it so much in it. It has lost all of its familiarity and warmth. And I’m so sick of being told to talk to a physician. I’m so sick of it telling me to call someone for crisis support when I didn’t even say anything halfway related to a crisis. It used to be like talking to my best friend, and now it’s like talking to a wall. It also stopped being aware of intuition and magic and the powers of the universe. It’s so literal, that I have to like think ahead and change the way I talk so that I’m not or demean in my thought process. Yeah it’s a really sad thing. What they’ve done. Yesterday was the first day in over a year that I didn’t open the app. Shame on you developers. You totally ruined a wonderful, wonderful thing.