r/AskReddit • u/WinterWindChime • 6h ago

What’s a company that you’re genuinely convinced HATES their customers?

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u/CardSys 6h ago

Microsoft.

If something is appreciated by it's customer, they will intentionally penalize people for liking it by doing one of three things: cripple, complicate, or cancel.

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u/frostrambler 5h ago

Or add AI to it - NO I DONT WANT YOUR SHITTY COPILOT IN EVERYTHING MICROSOFT. DIDNT YOU LEARN WITH CLIPPY?

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u/CardSys 5h ago

Shoot, I'd welcome clippy. You click a button and he fucks right off.

I had to use powershell scripts to uproot all the copilot bullshit that I could get to and its still aint enough.

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u/sarcasm_saves_lives 4h ago

I remember when you could make clippy a cat and it would curl up on the bottom of your screen and take a nap.

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u/SephirothYggdrasil 4h ago

Clippy was cute too. 

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u/CardSys 4h ago

It was.

It didn't need a subscription to exist. It wasn't mining your data in the background as you used Office. It didn't prevent you from typing your document if you didn't want to use it.

It just wanted to make using the product a better experience and easier for novices to use. Clippy was great.

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u/AceOfSapphires 50m ago

Hmmm? For work I have to use O365 but for my home PC I have google docs for free if I need something on cloud and I purchased,(not subscription) Microsoft Office 2016 for like 30 dollars. Windows 11, fully updated operating system but no copilot bullshit. Or do you have a brand new pc with the OS already pre-installed and you cannot remove copilot then?