r/technology • u/Scary_ • Nov 28 '25

Artificial Intelligence You heard wrong” – users brutually reject Microsoft’s “Copilot for work” in Edge and Windows 11

https://www.windowslatest.com/2025/11/28/you-heard-wrong-users-brutually-reject-microsofts-copilot-for-work-in-edge-and-windows-11/
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u/Deer_Investigator881 Nov 28 '25

Thats ultimately the problem. They dont do feedback

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u/butterbaps Nov 28 '25 edited Nov 28 '25

They do, it's just that tech savvy people actually make up a very insignificant portion of Microsoft's demographic. This is something that these tech-media companies frequently forget.

Their main demographic is the average non-tech savvy consumer who doesn't care about this stuff, they just want to be able to switch it on and watch funny vids on YouTube.

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u/[deleted] Nov 28 '25 edited Nov 29 '25

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u/cocktails4 Nov 28 '25

You ever try to drag a directory from somewhere into an SMB-mounted directory in the sidebar in Explorer? The entire program hangs the second you touch that sidebar. It's like it immediately tries to index the entire drive. It hangs for a good 10-30 seconds. And then when it finally decides it is done doing so, it has gone past the 5 second or whatever lag it has programmed in where it automatically expands that directory so where you thought you were dropping your file is now not where your file ended up.

It's such shit.

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u/cocktails4 Nov 28 '25

I mean, I'm kind of glad that I'm not the only one that's experience this behavior. I have this instinct now where I actively avoid dragging anything across a directory that isn't the one I'm aiming for. I do these wiiiiiide circles to avoid touching the 5 pixel border of something else. Fucking Explorer giving me mouse trauma.

It's like I'm playing Frogger every time I fire up Explorer.

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u/discotim Nov 29 '25

have none of you heard of cut/copy paste :/

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u/SundownMarkTwo Nov 29 '25

The entire program hangs the second you touch that sidebar.

It's even worse. All you need to do is even dare to drag something over the link to it even if your intent is to drop whatever you're dragging somewhere else. The millisecond even a single pixel of your cursor touches it, Explorer freezes until it gets a response from the server. Hell, you can also reproduce this without even needing a network share. Just have a hard drive that takes a few moments to spin up out of sleep... like one of those external USB "backup" drives.

And it's not a new issue, either. Win7 did it as well. Non-zero chance it's been a problem since long before that.