Microsoft
The company and its bets: Copilot, the office tools business, and what agents do to both.
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Gergely Orosz quoted
Writes The Pragmatic Engineer
Their wordsMicrosoft managed to make “Copilot” mean “AI slop” thanks shipping completely broken and forced Copilot features for years, so ppl hate it.
- 10 days earlier
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Gergely Orosz quoted
Their wordsI don't know a single startup or serious tech company using Teams sorry they are all on Slack OK, Cloudflare is on GChat
- 2 days earlier
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Armin Ronacher quoted
Creator of Flask and Jinja
Their wordsNo software tells me quite as much about your org as the choice of video conferencing software. Meet vs Zoom vs Microsoft Teams vs Citrix vs Jitsi are all picked for very different reasons.
- 3 weeks earlier
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David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals
Their wordsAnd maybe you won't get to 100% coverage, but this is the old joke about Microsoft Office. "I only use 5%." Yeah, well, we all use a different 5%. Well, what if we all just build our own 5%? What if I just took the functionality that I need and just did that? That is a completely different challenge and one agents are incredibly capable of doing right now, today, and I've done it a lot of times over.
↗DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux | Lex Fridman Podcast #501youtube.com 7th of 41 in this recording
- 7 days earlier
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Emily Atkin quoted
Climate journalist; founded HEATED in 2019 after reporting…
Our readingA company that is a genuine climate champion should not need to be forced into climate action.
Their wordsBut if Microsoft, Amazon and Google are truly the climate champions they claim to be, they shouldn't need to be forced.
↗We need to press Big Tech on their AI partnerships with Big Oilheated.world 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 4 weeks earlier
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Ethan Mollick quoted
Professor at Wharton studying how people actually use AI
Their wordsCopilot, which uses a mix of AI models and is okay for working with office documents but lags badly in terms of its agentic abilities.
↗An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuffoneusefulthing.org
- 7 weeks earlier
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Elio Struyf quoted
Belgian engineering lead, Microsoft MVP and public speaker
Their wordsThe strength of GitHub Copilot was never the models themselves. It was the deep integration across the entire platform: repos, Actions, pull requests, IDE, all in one place.
↗Metered Billing for GitHub Copilot: A Necessary Shifteliostruyf.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 3 weeks earlier
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Anders Hejlsberg quoted
Danish software engineer and Microsoft technical fellow
TypeScriptopen sourceJavaScript
Their wordsAnd we we full well knew that there was absolutely zero chance that we would appeal to the JavaScript ecosystem with a proprietary programming language licensed from Microsoft. No. No one was going to come. It had to be open source. There was just no two ways about it, right?
↗TypeScript, C# and Turbo Pascal with Anders Hejlsbergyoutube.com 13th of 26 in this recording
- 6 weeks earlier
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Emanuele Bartolesi quoted
Italian software architect working on Microsoft 365
Their wordsBy default, Copilot tries to agree, avoid criticism, and keep answers "safe". That sounds good, but in practice it leads to weak suggestions, missed problems, and bad decisions slipping through.
↗GitHub Copilot Is Too Nice. Fix It With a Tone of Voice File.emanuelebartolesi.com 1st of 2 in this piece
- 3 weeks earlier
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Steve Yegge quoted
Software engineer of four decades who spent years at Amazon and Google
Their wordsBut I'm serious, if you're working at a company that uses that gave you Copilot, they think that they're starting to move faster and there's a barbarian horde of people using Opus 4.5 that are going to destroy your company sooner or later.
↗From IDEs to AI Agents with Steve Yeggeyoutube.com 23rd of 25 in this recording
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Andrej Karpathy quoted
Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla
Their wordsYou can’t fork classical orgs (eg Microsoft) but you’ll be able to fork agentic orgs.
- 3 weeks earlier
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Emanuele Bartolesi quoted
Their wordsCopilot is not replacing judgment. It removes repetitive formatting work.
↗GitHub Copilot to Generate Conventional Commit Messages in VSCode and JetBrains Rideremanuelebartolesi.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 3 months earlier
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Satya Nadella quoted
Chairman and chief executive officer of Microsoft
Their wordsthere's no birthright here that we should have any confidence other than to say hey we should go innovate and knowing the the lucky break we have in some sense is that uh this category is going to be a lot bigger than anything we had high share in
↗Satya Nadella – How Microsoft thinks about AGIyoutube.com 6th of 22 in this recording
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Satya Nadella quoted
Their wordsIn fact, I kind of look at it and say our business which today is an enduser tools business will become essentially an infrastructure business in support of agents doing work.
↗Satya Nadella – How Microsoft thinks about AGIyoutube.com 11th of 22 in this recording
- 8 weeks earlier
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Tobias Lütke quoted
Co-founder and CEO of Shopify
Their wordsI think both of them have given re-founding events to their companies. I think they are actually um uh they have made such large changes with such clear breaks from the past that they are actually are the authors of their companies' cultures now.
↗ACQ2: How to Live in Everyone Else's Future (with Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke)youtube.com 16th of 21 in this recording
- 2 weeks earlier
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Benedict Evans quoted
Technology analyst whose weekly email on tech reaches over 150,000 readers
Their wordsIt wasn't clear that the browser wasn't where the value capture was cuz Microsoft crowbarred its way into dominance in browsers but that turned out not to matter and then all the value is in search advertising and social which were 5 years later and 10 years later and so like you can be very very clear that this is the thing and then still be completely unclear how it's going to work.
↗Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evansyoutube.com 2nd of 16 in this recording
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Benedict Evans quoted
Our readingIncumbents have looked unbeatable at the start of every previous platform shift and have still lost.
Their wordsI'm pretty sure people thought Microsoft had an advantage on the internet and Google and um Meta had an advantage on mobile and everyone thought IBM was going to win PCs. Like once IBM made a PC, that was it. It's all over now. And we kind of forget that like there were PCs before and then IBM made one and that kind of became the standard but then IBM lost it.
↗Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evansyoutube.com 3rd of 16 in this recording
- 2 months earlier
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David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Their wordsI don't know when we'll literally get "The Year of Linux on the Desktop", but I've never been as convinced that its coming as I am now. There's enough dissent in the water. Enough dissatisfaction with both Apple and Microsoft.
- 3 months earlier
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ThePrimeagen quoted
Michael Paulson, known online as ThePrimeagen
Their wordsFor me personally, I kept introducing bugs, and I couldn't figure out why. And what I realized is that I developed... I wasn't copiloting well, I was autopiloting much better.
↗ThePrimeagen: Programming, AI, ADHD, Productivity, Addiction, and God | Lex Fridman Podcast #461youtube.com 23rd of 31 in this recording
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ThePrimeagen quoted
Their wordsWhereas something like Microsoft, they made VS Code as a loss leader. Copilot's probably operating on a loss leader. These things are all getting you so tied into, GitHub, remote workspaces, CI, Copilot, you become this trapped in permanent person and if that price rises, the switching cost is so great at some point that you'll never be able to switch.
↗ThePrimeagen: Programming, AI, ADHD, Productivity, Addiction, and God | Lex Fridman Podcast #461youtube.com 30th of 31 in this recording
- 10 months earlier
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Morgan Housel quoted
Partner at Collaborative Fund and author of The Psychology of Money
Their wordsthe example that I always use is Bill Gates when he started Microsoft took the most audacious entrepreneurial swing that maybe anyone's ever taken of saying every desk in the world needs a computer on this and he's saying this in 1974 whatever it was crazy amount of risk crazy bold Vision at the same time he said that he always wanted Microsoft to have enough cash in the bank to make payroll for one year with no Revenue which is the most conservative pessimistic way to run a business so he's like very risk-taking and very conservative paranoid at the same time very good at getting rich very good at staying Rich at the same time
↗Morgan Housel: What You Need to Master (And Avoid) to Get Rich, Stay Rich, and Build Wealthyoutube.com 10th of 12 in this recording
- 3 weeks earlier
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David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Our readingCompanies can suddenly lose goodwill
Their wordsMicrosoft's reputation and good standing suddenly evaporated seemingly overnight once enough critical stories had accumulated about its behavior
↗Hating Apple goes mainstreamworld.hey.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 2 months earlier
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David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Their wordsnothing will fundamentally change at Apple until they have the kind of leadership transition that unlocked so much value at Microsoft
- 7 weeks earlier
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David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Their wordsBut the red mist of vindictiveness is blinding Apple's view of history, and making them repeat the mistakes it took Microsoft two decades to undo
↗Microsoft taught Apple nothingworld.hey.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Their wordsAnd the bill for that didn't come due until Windows Phone. Nobody, and I mean nobody, wanted to lift a finger to help Microsoft gain a foothold in mobile
↗Microsoft taught Apple nothingworld.hey.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 7 months earlier
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George Hotz quoted
American programmer and hacker
Their wordsSo almost if Codex or copilot are helping you, that actually probably means that your framework or library is bad and there’s too much boilerplate in it.
↗George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI & God | Lex Fridman Podcast #387youtube.com 14th of 30 in this recording
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George Hotz quoted
Their wordsThe two companies that have endured through technology are Apple and Microsoft. And what do they make? Computers and business services, right. All the meme, social ads, they all come and go. But you want to endure, build hardware.
↗George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI & God | Lex Fridman Podcast #387youtube.com 28th of 30 in this recording
- 27 years earlier
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Steve Jobs quoted
American entrepreneur (1955 to 2011)
Their wordsThe only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste, they have absolutely no taste, and what that means is - I don't mean that in a small way I mean that in a big way. In the sense that they they don't think of original ideas and they don't bring much culture into their product
↗Triumph of the Nerds, part 3 (PBS, 1996): transcriptweb.archive.org 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 11 months earlier
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Steve Jobs quoted
Their wordsThe desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That's over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it's going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years, or certainly for the rest of this decade.
↗Steve Jobs: The Next Insanely Great Thing (Wired, February 1996), interview by Gary Wolfwired.com 1st of 9 in this piece
- 9 months earlier
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Steve Jobs quoted
Their wordsThey're being driven out because the computer business is becoming a monopoly with Microsoft. Without getting into whether Microsoft gained its position legally or not--who cares? The end product of the position is that the ability to innovate in the industry is being sucked dry.
↗Steve Jobs oral history interview with Daniel Morrow (Smithsonian, 20 April 1995): excerptsweb.archive.org 7th of 11 in this piece