Microsoft's ham-fisted strategy for trying to build a moat around its AI offering, by shoving everyone's documents in it without any real informed consent, genuinely beggars belief.
It will not successfully create a moat - turns out files are portable - but it will successfully peeve a huge number of users and institutions off, and inevitably cause years of litigation and regulatory attention.
Are there no adults left at Microsoft? Or is it now just Copilot all the way up?
Copilot pulls from the substrate, like many other apps. No files are store in Copilot. They’re usually on ODSP but could be in Dataverse or a non-Microsoft product like Confluence (there goes your moat!).
It will not successfully create a moat - turns out files are portable - but it will successfully peeve a huge number of users and institutions off, and inevitably cause years of litigation and regulatory attention.
Are there no adults left at Microsoft? Or is it now just Copilot all the way up?