For the same reason I use Teams, it's what my workplace pretty much forces me to use.
There were workarounds to redirect the mail to Gmail and manage everything from there instead, but they cracked down on them one after another. The last time I didn't manage to avoid it, so now I'm stuck with that piece of crap.
There isn't honestly that many email clients left. What do you suggest they use, Thunderbird,.. and what, The Bat?
Outlook comes with Windows, it works.
What in some sense has me worried is that even Microsoft doesn't really care about native applications anymore. It's rather hard to take a software company serious, when they don't even want to develop to their own native API. The whole thing is primarily a result of Outlook becoming a blood webapp.
Is there honestly any reason why they couldn't bundle the real Outlook, the one they sell to businesses?
Great website! It looks wonderful on my powerful new Mac.
Also, I like how the focus appears to be on how it will benefit the user, instead of focusing on tech specs.
Data privacy and personal security aside, I understand there will be a reciprocal action between lifestyle and technology. We might have to change our lifestyle to make room for and benefit from new technology tools, just as we have for smart phones.
If kids get interested in it, then it will have a chance. If it's cool and fun, then it has a chance. If it actually makes things easier and better, then it could take off.
But if it has that cringe factor like google glass had, then it will never get anywhere.
The possibilities are awesome, but something like this requires a reinforcing feedback loop on top of a network effect to become successful.
On the one hand, they might be very specific, like "anything other than the Missionary Position between heterosexual couples of the same race and age are banned."
On the other hand, they might have a 100-page document filled with legalese that nobody understands, nor follows.
Perhaps we could look at this from another perspective: If we were in North Korea, how would they regulate the use of AI for the reproduction of the likeness of the Dear Leader?
Edit: To put it another way:
* They either define in clear terms what IS allowed.
* Or they define in clear terms what IS NOT allowed.
Nah, they're not limited to your options. They don't have to define anything - they can just keep the rules secret and punish/reward as they like without explaining anything.
It keeps everyone on their toes, forces over-compliance, and it's easier too!
What's the point of having power if you don't get to be arbitrary after all? All the megacorps do it, from Visa to PayPal to Facebook, Google, Meta, Reddit, and so on.
Only someone in league with or benefiting from the centralization of power, mass surveillance, wealth, and the use of technology to further the rapid concentration and centralization of such could write such a one-sided piece.
Unless they're somehow unaware that, in its current manifestation, technology is a tool that converts knowledge into power.
An improved and expanded strategy for -- with articulated tactics to achieve -- the decentralization of power and wealth, a dismantling of hierarchy, and increasing personal agency, privacy and freedom must not be sacrificed in favor of technology for technology's sake.
When I was at GM Cruise we were using a "semantic map" - the robot cars would drive around the city trying to figure out where they were based on GPS, and then match up what their LiDAR/RADAR/Camera data showed after going through the "Ground Truth" system.
The software just did whatever the ML model figured was the optimal response to the current situation, 10x per second. Often it got the wrong answer, and the NN would be focused on fixing those "wrong answer scenarios" next.
The cars can't drive anywhere the semantic map doesn't already cover.
Ridiculous, and so very disappointing.
We need better methods - maybe something that could generate metaphors like Lakoff suggests in "Metaphors We Live By" but the whole "drive robot cars around a city a million times and make a huge model of it" strikes me as very inefficient.
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