[HN Gopher] Consumers make their voices heard as Microsoft's ven...
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       Consumers make their voices heard as Microsoft's venture flatlines
       in popularity
        
       Author : taubek
       Score  : 18 points
       Date   : 2025-04-27 18:12 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.xda-developers.com)
        
       | WarOnPrivacy wrote:
       | Venture = CoPilot
       | 
       | Below is how I contribute to MSCP flatlining.
       | Get-AppxPackage -allusers *CoPilot* | Remove-AppxPackage
       | -allusers
        
         | 31337Logic wrote:
         | Hah. Thanks for doing your part, sir. But more importantly,
         | thanks for sharing. ;-)
        
         | onedognight wrote:
         | While you are cleaning your Windows install of CoPilot, here's
         | the list[0] of packages that Microsoft themselves suggest
         | removing.
         | 
         | [0] https://github.com/microsoft/windows-dev-box-setup-
         | scripts/b...
        
           | WarOnPrivacy wrote:
           | That's a classic list. I recognize some of those entries
           | (...and I need to refresh my own list!)
           | 
           | I did a search to see who else posted their debloating
           | efforts.                   site:github.com
           | "Microsoft.XboxIdentityProvider"  Remove-AppxPackage
        
       | medhir wrote:
       | looking at the way copilot was rolled out at Microsoft, none of
       | this is particularly surprising.
       | 
       | early on, they shoehorned LLMs into most of their products in the
       | least thoughtful way possible -- I guess leadership thought it
       | best to move quietly for first-mover advantage.
       | 
       | I remember looking at copilot enterprise pricing at that time and
       | thinking "this is delusional."
       | 
       | and it still is! $31.50 per user, per month... that is more than
       | most other LLM "pro" subscriptions. the value prop just never
       | made sense when the outputs tend to be worse than what you get
       | using ChatGPT.
        
       | solarkraft wrote:
       | I don't know what they were thinking. They could've made it an
       | offer, but pushing things on people like that just doesn't work
       | well.
        
         | consumer451 wrote:
         | Microsoft is too used to being able to push subpar products
         | with no real repressions, due to their market share and sales
         | channels.
         | 
         | Fixing that culture is a herculean task, and there has been
         | little financial incentive to do so.
        
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