Mastodawn

I sometimes try to use the Microsoft #Copilot that comes bundled with #Office365 now. All the training for this feature warn you thoroughly to double check answers and so on due to the hallucination problem. But its still frustrating as hell when you give it a simple task and it fails miserably.

I told it to look in our company's cloud file storage for a document that had my name "Tim Farley" in it along with a particular CVE number (also in quotes). I was looking for an old report where I had written up a particular vulnerability. It very quickly showed me a link to a document that I recognized as one of my reports, and offered "would you like to see the exact paragraph". I said sure, show me the exact paragraph.

It then wrote me 257 WORDS explaining how it had screwed up, and the CVE number I gave it is NOWHERE TO BE FOUND in that document. Included was some mumbo jumbo about how it uses parallel partial searches to do its work or some such. AND IT COMPLIMENTED ME on challenging its answer.

A ton has been written on how #AI might replace low-level jobs such as interns. But I swear to you if I had an intern who behaved like this, I would put them on a performance improvement plan!

How is this acceptable performance for a product that people pay a bunch of money for? Would you buy Excel if on the bottom of every page it said "HEY YOU BETTER CHECK ALL MY MATH BECAUSE I MIGHT HAVE SCREWED UP SOMETHING"?

#AIFAIL #PutAIonaPIP

nerd.bear 9h ago

Moin! Euro-Office hisst die Segel: Europas Tech-Allianz (Nextcloud, IONOS & Co.) baut ’ne offene Office-Suite als Fork von OnlyOffice. Volle DOCX-Kompatibilität, EU-Server, echte Souveränität gegen US-Dominanz. Technische Preview auf GitHub bereit – Launch war erst vor drei Tagen. Stabile Version für Sommer 2026. Endlich ’n eigener Kurs im Wolkenmeer!

Lesen lohnt: https://nerdbear.de/post/euro-office-europas-schreibdeck-gegen-us-frachter-dominanz.shtml

#EuroOffice #DigitaleSouveraenitaet #nextcloud #microsoft #office365 #EUCloud

What's New in Office 365 3d ago

What's New in Office 365, Friday, March 27, 2026
18 new posts across 9 Microsoft websites since Tuesday, March 24, 2026

#Microsoft365 #Office365 #MicrosoftTeams #MicrosoftAzure #Microsoft365Copilot #SharePoint

• Copilot for Microsoft 365 (4)
• Microsoft Azure Blog (2)
• Microsoft 365 Blog - Tech Community (3)

..and more: https://o365.cannell.org/2026/03/27/whats-new-in-O365.html

What’s New in Office 365 - Friday, March 27, 2026

18 new posts across 9 Microsoft websites since Tuesday, March 24, 2026<ul><li>Copilot for Microsoft 365 (4)</li><li>Microsoft 365 Blog - Tech Community (3)</li><li>Exchange Team Blog (1)</li><li>SharePoint Blog (1)</li><li>Microsoft Azure Blog (2)</li><li>Microsoft 365 Developer Blog (2)</li><li>Microsoft Security Blog (3)</li><li>Education Blog (1)</li><li>Azure AI Foundry Blog (1)</li></ul>

What’s New in Office 365

MarcinGondek 3d ago

As #Office365 user privately, I was thinking to take a look on #GoogleWorkplace and entry point is killer for me. My google account is exactly as my email, so this is unmanaged account from Workplace perspective. To use that email I need to make it managed, but I’m owner of family group with YouTube Premium so I need to close this group to make my account managed and to cover YouTube make another unmanaged account and establish group from scratch. Too much work for me even to take a look but prerequisites to even be able to setup my email are painful. I see as NoGo even to try. Maybe with the luck I’m will be able to not lock down myself on google side but #Microsoft solved it better, you may have the same email as login for private and “corprorate” access and once you login the service ask you which one you want to use and continue.

Teddy / Domingo (🇨🇵/🇬🇧)5d ago

"On arrive à un point de bascule violent" : le fondateur de /e/OS alerte sur la souveraineté - Interview
La souveraineté numérique n'est plus un sujet de militants. La menace de voir des administrations françaises ou européennes coupées d' #AWS ou d' #Office365 du jour au lendemain a brutalement changé la donne.
https://www.clubic.com/actualite-604786-murena-e-os-interview.html
#eos #murenaos #fuckgafam

"On arrive à un point de bascule violent" : le fondateur de /e/OS alerte sur la souveraineté - Interview

Gaël Duval a cofondé Mandrake Linux en 1998. Près de trente ans plus tard, le fondateur de Murena et de /e/OS n'a pas changé de combat, mais le monde, lui, commence à rattraper ses convictions.

clubic.com

Software libero Liguria 5d ago

"Cara Europa, la Germania ha indicato la via da seguire" lettera aperta di Italo Vignoli a tutti gli amministratori, funzionari e dirigenti della pubblica amministrazione a tutti i livelli. Non ci sono più scuse per non adottare il formato libero e aperto ODF (Open Document Format). https://softwareliberoliguria.org/cara-europa-la-germania-ha-indicato-la-via-da-seguire/
#odf #openformat #ooxml #libreoffice #formatoaperto #standard #iso #softwarelibero #freesoftware #microsoft #office365 #sovranitadigitale #tdf #thedocumentfoundation

Cara Europa: la Germania ha indicato la via da seguire – SoftwareLiberoLiguria.org

Arawa - Collab. Open Source 6d ago

📢 L'#Allemagne 🇩🇪 vient de rendre obligatoire le format standard #OpenDocumentFormat (#ODF)
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/20/big-news-germany-has-just-made-odf-mandatory/
#OpenSource #LogicielsLibres #FreeSoftware #GAFAM #Microsoft #OpenXML #OOXML #LibreOffice #CollaboraOnline #Office365 #MSOffice #MicrosoftOffice

BIG NEWS: Germany has just made the standard Open Document Format (ODF) mandatory - TDF Community Blog

The German federal government has quietly taken an extremely significant step: hidden amongst the technical specifications of the Deutschland-Stack – the rules that will govern the sovereign digital infrastructure supporting public administration at all levels of government, from federal ministries to local council offices – there is a short but highly significant line. Under the technological pillar “Semantic technologies and real-time analysis”, the document mandates the use of just two document formats: ODF and PDF/UA. That is all. Two open, vendor-neutral formats, defined by international standardisation bodies. OOXML, Microsoft’s closed, proprietary format, is not on the list. What is the Deutschland-Stack? The Deutschland-Stack is the German federal government’s project for a sovereign, interoperable digital infrastructure that complies with European standards. It is neither a pilot project nor a policy discussion paper, but the result of a coordinated decision between the Digital Minister, the Federal Chancellery and the Chancellor, backed by the coalition agreement. The document sets out the standards that will govern how all federal public administrations, at all levels, build, procure and manage their digital systems, and envisages concrete implementation by 2028. It is worth reading its architectural principles carefully. “Made in the EU first.” Reduction of lock-in effects.

TDF Community Blog

Andreas Bürsten GmbH 6d ago

So! Ich hab unser nächstes https://di.day/de Event angestoßen:
Die Bestätigung für den mailbox.org Business-Account ist da - bis morgen rechne ich mit der Validierung.
Dann versuche ich dann das erste Mail-Konto von Office 365 zu kopieren 🍀
Wenn wir #Office365 ab dem 30.4. dann hoffentlich beerdigen können, weil wir den Vertrag nicht mehr verlängert haben, müssen bis dahin noch einige Gig Daten umziehen ... ohjeohje.
Unser IT Dienstleister ist still, also muss ich wohl allein🙈 #diday

HACOM – Laptop & PC Gaming 6d ago

Microsoft 365 – Nền tảng làm việc số
Microsoft 365 giúp người dùng xử lý tài liệu và làm việc linh hoạt hơn với các công cụ văn phòng kết hợp lưu trữ đám mây.

Xem thêm:
https://hacom.vn/microsoft-office-365

#Microsoft365 #Office365 #DigitalWork #Productivity #HACOM

What's New in Office 365 6d ago

What's New in Office 365, Tuesday, March 24, 2026
19 new posts across 14 Microsoft websites since Friday, March 20, 2026

#Microsoft365 #Office365 #MicrosoftTeams #PowerBI #SharePoint #Microsoft365Copilot

• Outlook Blog (2)
• Exchange Team Blog (1)
• Microsoft 365 Insider Blog (1)

..and more: https://o365.cannell.org/2026/03/24/whats-new-in-O365.html

What’s New in Office 365 - Tuesday, March 24, 2026

19 new posts across 14 Microsoft websites since Friday, March 20, 2026<ul><li>Copilot for Microsoft 365 (1)</li><li>Exchange Team Blog (1)</li><li>Outlook Blog (2)</li><li>OneDrive Blog (1)</li><li>Microsoft 365 Insider Blog (1)</li><li>Microsoft Edge Blog (1)</li><li>Microsoft Intune Blog (1)</li><li>Microsoft Security Blog (3)</li><li>Microsoft Defender for Office 365 (1)</li><li>Microsoft 365 Defender Blog (3)</li><li>Power BI Blog (1)</li><li>Public Sector Blog (1)</li><li>Access Blog (1)</li><li>Azure AI Foundry Blog (1)</li></ul>

What’s New in Office 365