Recent content by Rhubarbed WireSloth

Right! If you buy some Apple Air machine for $1,500 , you can figure it will last about 8 years. That's about $188 per year. With any Windows computer, their quality is such that you are LUCKY to get 4 years of service out of those, so $1,500.00 / 4 is $375.00 per year. And NO, MSFT and HP...

And yet, there are a good number Android could do better in their system. Like: The "Select, copy paste" system is clunky. Or the way that Android has only a BACKSPACE key (delete towards the left) but no DELETE KEY (delete what is towards the right) ... Or "No Up, down, left, right key"...

Plus, Blueray disks can't be ruined by a electromagnetic pulse weapon. Granted, they can be melted over candle light, or scratched by sandpaper. On the other hand, Cloud storage can be hacked into, and if your data contains personal financial data, you might not want to keep them there...

Because no one would buy it as a separate product. Why is that? Because any AI is only as good as the people programming it, and only as right as the information it accesses or is allowed to access, and only as smart as it is allowed to be. It cannot make decisions that are smarter than...

WRONG, Microsoft Office may have been added to Microsoft 365, but numerous things changed for the worse, like the conundrum that is a "LOCAL VERSION" of Outlook, versus "the Online Outlook Outlook.live.com" versus the weird unconfigurable "Microsoft Mail", versus the now fairly messed up...

A few days ago, I tried MSFT Co-Pilot to find out how to deal with certain MSFT issues, such as "permissions", "windows registry", "security certificate stores", and I conclude that Co-Pilot spit out some basic pieces of info, but when it came down to providing SPECIFIC & UP-TO-DATE info...

Or tell us: How is that MS RECALL system not a big security issue? Would you like to have a spy guy in trench-coat standing behind you, taking a picture of what's on your screen, and sending that info to Microsoft, or whereever it gets sent, behind our backs, against our express wishes? Well...

More: When MSFT first started offering what is now called OneDrive, I tried to upload a WORD document, encrypted with WORD's own encryption function, they would not let me do it. I concluded that they feel entitled to read anyone's mail, look at every document, comparatively like a "East...

Continued: Over time, MSFT started to monkey with functions that worked fine for over 30 years, such as "Copy and Paste". Being immature and presumptuous, I guess that they wanted to know exactly WHAT IT IS that customers were copying and pasting . Since a good portion of this copy and paste...

And since I was not done with the prior response, and Windows Central Security thinks that a longer text "somehow must be scam, junk, or other not useful stuff", I have to add stuff by responding to myself. The things I have to do. In addition, MSFT is afraid to have a basic customer service...

Sorry, since you mention "Microsoft Copilot is a portfolio of generative AI agents built into the Microsoft apps, products, and services you know and love" I should tell you that we, the paying customers of Microsoft Office 365, wait it's Microsoft 365, wait it's Microsoft Copilot 365, we...

As far as AI goes, Mr Nadella, you absolutely do not understand the human part of it. AI, as it appears now, has no reasoning skill, no conceptual understanding, no ability to look at consequences for humanity at large, no ability to look at context, to consider narrow or wide focus, none of...

And, well I'll be back. Hoping for actionable information!

I conclude that algorithms are not that smart, and can be defeated by feeding info in small, spoonful pieces.

In a way, MSFT's advertising that Outlook can send encrypted documents safely to another recipient, APPEARS TO BE FALSE, according to my repeatable experience. (You know, come over to my place, and watch how it DOES NOT WORK in real time, over and over, time and again!) My experience is not...