New Microsoft 365 pricing live, some products up by 42% due to AI(www.windowslatest.com)
35 pointsby ninko7 hours ago5 comments
  • chairmansteve7 hours ago
    If AI is so great, these price rises will pay for themselves many times over.....

    Have any HNer's experienced or observed any productivity increases, or even any utility increases from co pilot?

    • jamesfinlayson4 hours ago
      Had a clueless business analyst get Copilot to write a bunch of stories for an epic, then when she had a meeting with me (and three other people!) to go through the stories I had to tell them that 90% of what they had done was wrong.

      If they'd come to me from the outset I could have told them the one story title and handful of acceptance criteria that was required but instead we wasted 5 person hours and whatever Copilot costs.

      • netsharc4 hours ago
        Without context it reads like you work in a publisher that publishes fiction...
        • spacechild13 hours ago
          I thought the same. Business lingo has really jumped the shark. "story" is already stupid enough, but "epic"? Seriously? :-D
          • jamesfinlayson3 hours ago
            I assumed this was standard terminology for Jira? It's been the same for me at two completely different tech companies.
            • spacechild13 hours ago
              It might be standard terminology but to outsiders like me it sounds like an over-the-top parody of corporate speak.
              • jamesfinlaysonan hour ago
                I don't disagree - I worked on a task management system many years ago and task and subtask always made a lot more sense than story and task. And epic should just be project.
              • hakfoo2 hours ago
                I always hoped we could make "cinematic universe" for really enormous refactorings.
              • mlvljr2 hours ago
                [dead]
    • itchingsphynx5 hours ago
      Probably worse productivity because now I have to read paragraphs of emails that could have been sentences.
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    • hulitu22 minutes ago
      They do increase RAM and processor usage.
    • bombcar3 hours ago
      Copilot actually can search outlook emails on Mac. This is the greatest achievement of any AI.
    • bigbuppo6 hours ago
      We've lost customers over the increased price.
  • meszmatean hour ago
    It makes no sense to use 365 anymore, there are so many other alternatives
  • HDBaseT2 hours ago
    Any word on 'A' (Education) licenses?

    A1/A2/A3?

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  • ninko7 hours ago
    Microsoft is committed to delivering continuous innovation and value through Microsoft 365. Over the past several years, we’ve invested deeply in security, compliance, productivity, AI, and IT management— helping organizations stay productive, secure, and competitive in a rapidly evolving landscape. This change reflects the significant innovation delivered over the past several years and the added value customers will gain with new additions to the suites, including major advancements in AI (ex. Copilot Chat, Copilot Chat Analytics), security (ex. Microsoft Defender for Office P1), and IT management (ex. Intune Suite).
    • craftkiller5 hours ago
      You worded that as if you speak for Microsoft, but your account is 2 days old and this is your first comment, which makes me suspect you are a karma-farming bot.
    • jinxmeta7 hours ago
      so a long way of saying: we need to fund our AI.
      • RetroTechie3 hours ago
        War chest emptying, must raise taxes.
      • cyanydeez7 hours ago
        Now, instead of incremental UI changes, we can parade an infinite array of slop features to justify lifetime subscriptions by businesses, because, what are they going to do, learn something else?
    • diego_sandoval6 hours ago
      No one who takes their job seriously uses Copilot anything.
    • slimshade7775 hours ago
      hey AI, your em dash is showing.