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Microsoft excludes Domain Exclusion from MS 365 Copilot – days after rolling it out

PeterM42
WTF?

Definitely need Micro$lop Copilot on the "block" list

I recently helped an elderly lady neighbour who had booked a flight to the USA.

The confirmation email on her iPhone (using Outlook app) included an AI generated “summary”, which did not appear on her Windows desktop copy of the email.

The “summary” contained a gross flight booking error, showing the return flight on the same day as the outbound!!!

Needless to say, this caused her considerable consternation.

It turned out the reason was that Microsoft “AI” is free to insert errors into a received email:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/what-are-events-from-emails-what-is-the-summary-information-at-the-top-of-my-message

In other words, Microsoft are corrupting emails with erroneous information.

Microsoft rushes out Windows fix for Dell's hot and bothered PCs

PeterM42
Facepalm

HEADLINE

Micro$lop Don't DO Quality

Oh! Wait!.....

That is a headline from over a decade ago.

Dark patterns in Windows are steering users to Edge: Mozilla-commissioned report

PeterM42
FAIL

Q: What is the difference between Edge and a virus?

A: You can get rid of a virus.

Backup and running? Not this digital sign

PeterM42
Megaphone

Who mentioned Microsoft 365??

I think you meant Micro$lop 364½

There, FTFY

Microsoft to switch off OWA Light after nearly two decades

PeterM42
Facepalm

So now.......

.....we have to put up with "New Outlook" (web front end) application, which as every user knows is CRAP!

PS. I assume that is what they are still calling it today??????

Another German state heads down the open source sovereignty road

PeterM42
Megaphone

Thin edge....

....of a very large wedge.

Micro$lop be warned - everyone is getting totally pissed off by your rubbish software.

Boffin claims Microsoft's supposed quantum leap does not compute due to 'basic Python errors'

PeterM42
Angel

I always thought Quantum Computing was like Nuclear Fusion

It has always been the technology of the future,

It still is the technology of the future,

It always will be the technology of the future.

Windows 11 turns five, leaving some important lessons for Microsoft

PeterM42
Devil

Spot On!

Android + ChromeOS = Aluminium (aka Googlebook, or whatever) = Will be fantastic.

Microsoft - Bill Gates = A right clusterfuck = IBM v2.0 = disaster.

Windows update leaves third-party Office document launches in limbo

PeterM42

It was all pretty good until.....

..... Bill Gates gave up when it all turned to rat shit.

And getting worse.

Roll on ALUMINUM/Googlebooks/GoogleOS

Microsoft faces down sueball, capacity problems in series of challenges

PeterM42
Thumb Down

If only.....

..... the millions of disgruntled users of Micro$lop products could get together for a class action against Micro$lop's ongoing efforts to make their products increasingly unusable.

Simple example: Have you tried adding a Micro$lop email account to Micro$lop Outlook, recently??

Microsoft site throwing warnings after someone forgot to renew cert

PeterM42

Get REAL

"someone, involved in the certificate-renewal process at Microsoft has messed up"

someone involved at Microsoft has messed up - SNAFU

There, FTFY

Palantir's NHS data deal called in for a second opinion

PeterM42
Facepalm

Of course, if it's no longer Palantir, it will be..........

Crapita?

Fushityou?

Semens?

Crapgemini?

Ta Ta?

I've Been Misled?

Wiperout?

Holy git! Microsoft code-sharing site suffers downtime, despite move to Azure

PeterM42
Joke

Azure anagrams to.........

.....U Arze.

Just sayin'

HP investigating BIOS updates that leave premium laptop users in boot loop limbo

PeterM42
FAIL

I haven't purchased any more HP-branded products.

At the computer help drop-in sessions I help out with, I recommend clients DO NOT BUY AN HP PRINTER UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE.

Also wonder why it is necessary to turn OFF "Fast Start" in Windows on HP laptops if you want them to boot properly?

Windows boot partition runs out of space for Microsoft's May security update

PeterM42
Trollface

Re: Time to give Windows

Almost 40years???

You are obviously a newbie.

1967 PDP8 - 4,096 12-bit words. Those were the days!

Mystery Microsoft bug leaker keeps the zero-days coming

PeterM42
Facepalm

Surely.....

......EVERYONE knows M$ Windoze is insecure by design?

Microslop stuffs AI photo restyling powers into OneDrive

PeterM42
Facepalm

If only AI could....

...fix all the BUGS that Micro$lop program into their CRAPware on a daily basis.

Britain's atomic brain trust gives itself till 2030 to unpick fusion challenges

PeterM42
Unhappy

Nuclear fusion....

...has long been the future for cheap renewable electrical energy.

It is NOW clearly the future for cheap renewable electrical energy.

And.....

Will probably ALWAYS BE the future for cheap renewable electrical energy.

Security researchers tricked Apple Intelligence into cursing at users. It could have been a lot worse

PeterM42
Trollface

Hang on.......

.....everyone keeps telling me that Apple products cannot be hacked.

Apple's chips are the core of a new landscape, but its biggest win is Windows

PeterM42
Megaphone

Excellent article!

BUT, it completely ignored Android and ChromeOS which Google are transforming into "Aluminum" which has the potential to have the capabilty of both Windows and iOS, without the annoyance of Windows' grossest faults and Apple's cost and limitations.

Linux is an irrelevance because there are far too many variants which maintain a high degree of difference with each other.

Hotpatching goes default in Windows Autopatch whether you like it or not

PeterM42
Devil

Perhaprs Microcrap should have a new naming system for their rubbish OS...

Eg:

Double-glazed look Windows

Misty Windows

Stained Windows

Broken Windows (already have several of those, so they will need numbering 8, 8.1, 10, 11 (Which is really 10.0.22000+)

Microsoft kicks new Outlook opt-out deadline down the road to 2027

PeterM42
Megaphone

Office Outlook, W10 Outlook, "New" Outlook, outlook.com, Office 364½.......

Whatever - The outlook for Microcrap is NOT GOOD as they continue to piss off their traditional customers with their interference in what users try to do and gross lack of quality.

With Android and Chromebooks/ChomeOS gaining popularity, together with the possible amalgamation of these worthy systems into "Aluminum", and the plethora of brilliant android apps which could potentially be used on Aluminium, the emphasis will eventually shift from a Microcrap world to a Google one.

TerraPower gets permission to build, not operate, sodium-cooled nuclear reactor

PeterM42
WTF?

Natrium????

So what is wrong with the more commonly-used name, Sodium?????

Satya Nadella decides Microsoft needs an engineering quality czar

PeterM42
Megaphone

.....the Windows 11 rot has already taken hold...

Yep. Roll on Aluminium (courtesy of Google).

CISA flags actively exploited Office relic alongside fresh HPE flaw

PeterM42
FAIL

Microsoft love re-introducing "fixed" flaws.

I generated a list following the introduction of Windows 11:

-Printing issues

-Memory leakage

-Installation issues

-Windows update problems

-BSODs

-Roaming profile problems + the nightmare that is One Drive!!!!!

-Microsoft Store issues.

-Laptop not charging problem (Did they ever actually FIX that one?

Nothing new here. Microsoft still struggling with the basics.

The Microsoft 365 Copilot app rebrand was bad, but there are far worse offenders

PeterM42
Facepalm

Don't forget Outlook:

- Outlook Express

- Outlook - Part of the installable Office Suite

- "New" Outlook

- Outlook.com

- Outlook - part of Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365) or whatever it is called at 14:20 hrs UTC on 9th January 2026.

AAAAgggghhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oracle's new AI-enhanced support portal leaves users fuming

PeterM42
FAIL

Given that 50% of people are below average intelligence

The it follows that Artificial Intelligence is 50% below average intelligence.

ie: CRAP! (And it's Oracle Crap!!!)

Asda's 'self-inflicted' SAP mess after Walmart divorce stalls financial revival

PeterM42
Facepalm

Not enough companies realise....

.....that IT is core business.

One-fifth of the jobs at your company could disappear as AI automation takes off

PeterM42
WTF?

Microsoft's "AI" doesn't work

Microsoft's "AI" can't even send a security code to someone trying to reset their email password, so what hope is there for anything complicated????

Microsoft's first Windows 10 ESU Patch Tuesday release fails for some

PeterM42
FAIL

Re: I'll wait

Don't hold your breath!

Microsoft's lack of quality control is out of control

PeterM42
Facepalm

It's difficult to pinpoint precisely where it went wrong for Microsoft when it comes to quality.

It's EASY to pinpoint precisely where it went wrong for Microsoft when it comes to quality. - There! FTFY

Bill Gates stepped down from his full-time executive role at Microsoft in 2008, leaving his position as chairman in 2014 and resigning from the board entirely in 2020.

China's president Xi Jinping jokes about backdoors in Xiaomi smartphones

PeterM42
Joke

Not good

I remember telling a non-techie about Huawei phones being bugged.

He laughed because he had a Huawei phone.

His phone laughed too.

UK government inflates G-Cloud framework to £14B

PeterM42

More of our taxpayer money to be wasted.....

.... Rachael from Accounts, backed by Sir Rodney Plonker and his money-wasting team.

Get ready to squint! World's smallest pixel is just 300 nm

PeterM42

On no!

Back to the opticians for some new specs.

How the ONS data-sharing dream ended in budget cuts and three rival platforms

PeterM42
Facepalm

".... ask how the government ended up with three different systems for doing just that."

Answer: GROSS INCOMPETENCE.

Irony alert: UK.gov Work dept hires IBM to aid AI projects

PeterM42
WTF?

Government?

It's

Being

Misled

'Money-saving' UK procurement platform racks up monster tab

PeterM42
Trollface

Don't forget the basic rules of government IT procurement

1) It will cost more than estimated.

2) It will go to one of the known big boys in Govt systems or a friend of the PM.

3) It will not work even if you (the public) throw more money at it.

4) Failure will be blamed on the previous government.

5) Consultants will make lots of money "consulting" on it.

Oracle will have to borrow at least $25B a year to fund AI fantasy, says analyst

PeterM42
Headmaster

As Shakespeare wrote:

"Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend."

Also, "There is little point in pumping expensive air into a punctured deflating balloon." (Quote from me.)

Russia-backed Indian oil company loses bid to force SAP support as sanctions bite

PeterM42
Mushroom

Deal with the Devil....

...get burnt.

UK agency makes arrest in airport cyberattack investigation

PeterM42
Trollface

If it was a disgruntled ex-employee....

....give him the job of locking the system down properly in mitigation for a lighter sentence.

French jet left circling while Corsican controller caught Zs

PeterM42
Flame

Tsk! Tsk!

There should ALWAYS be more than one person on duty in ATC.

The end of Windows 10 means early Surface Hub hardware will be bricking it

PeterM42
WTF?

How long......

....before LARGE corporations get p**d off with this EXPENSIVE constant refresh/upgrade cycle and go open source?

Roll on Android on the desktop/laptop.

Bharti big shots storm BT boardroom after £3.6B raid

PeterM42
Facepalm

Oh No!

Does this mean I will be stuck with VerminMedia as BT's OpenReach has not yet put fibre down near my house?

Home Office delays £816M English test contract despite market engagement

PeterM42
FAIL

Q: "Why so expensive"?

A: Because our TOTALLY INCOMPETENT government wants to look as though they are doing something to help all those immigrants (including asylum seekers) flooding into a country that doesn't want/need ANY MORE!

Our TOTALLY INCOMPETENT government does not spend THEIR money, they spend OURS. so they really do not give a s**t when they waste it. Which they do - consistently.

Eg: HS2, NHS, "Great British Rail". Need I go on?

So much for the paperless office: UK government inks £900M deal for printers etc.

PeterM42
Devil

My presentation on "Office Automation" in the 1980'........

....included the comment that "the paperless office was about as likely and as useful as the paperless loo (toilet)"

IBM Cloud to end free human support, suggests customers use enhanced AI instead

PeterM42
Mushroom

What!?!

You mean IBM is still in business?!?!

Windows Mobile Plans app to be disconnected in 2026

PeterM42
FAIL

Poor old Microsoft

They never did "get" (understand) phones, did they.

Out-of-band update arrives to clean up Windows reset and recovery mess

PeterM42
WTF?

Patches

" .......a patch emerged to patch the patch."

Was that the patch for the patch for the patch for the security update which was to patch an issue caused by an earlier patch?

Or,

etc., etc., etc.,

One wonders how much of Windoze is now patches compared to actual "original" code?

40%?

50%?

more?

Chinese funding backs sale of British microLED specialist

PeterM42
FAIL

At the current rate of progress.......

....we won't be making anything, inventing anything or exporting any services.

The entire WORKforce (is anybody still working?) tendering to the needs of illegal immigrants and people who get permanent "sick notes" because they don't feel like working and feel the government should pay for their food, accommodation, energy, transport, massive TVs, iPhones. iPads, etc.

All at the expense of people who are wealthy enough to not need to work or have retired.

August update leaves Windows reset and recovery dead in the water

PeterM42
Megaphone

Plus ça change

Just wait for Android on the desktop/laptop.

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