I have used Microsoft products since their inception, having been a secretary or administrative assistant for the first 19 years of my working life. And I taught these products throughout the years. On the PC they are the best. But, they are large all-inclusive products. If you only do word processing, you get more program than you will every need. If you only use Excel, you still have to buy the full package. Their best product for the average user was MSWorks, but they abandoned that product, which was priced lower than the Office platform. MSWorks came installed on most computers by default. Most of the people I know wish MS Works was available to use. The Office products are too bulky for what the home user needs. So why force a large portion of users to buy a package that requires $99/year subscriptions. Over a 10-year period people are paying nearly $1000 for using these packages. It is a crime! Simplify things for the end user because many people are turning away from Microsoft because they just can’t afford it. The senior citizens using computers today, many who have never touched a computer, don’t need the big and bulky Office products. Please, Microsoft, bring back MSWorks!

Okay. At this point, they’re totally just ragebaiting. They re-upload this, and only made improvements with memory, allowing chat instructions, and stuff like that. In exchange, 50 messages a day?! The previous version of this was bad enough even without those additions. But now they’re expecting you to upgrade to send more than 50? Qwen is basically non-profitable in many ways, and yet THAT allows 100. WITH a lot more features. In case there weren’t already proof that this is easily one of the worst chatbots ever. In fact, the custom instructions don’t even work fully. It almost feels diluted. Because vibe change? Not much different. Word range control? Still doesn’t exist without the ‘longer’ or ‘more concise’ buttons. Then the memory is actually not much better than it was before. You can’t just make a chatbot and expect yourself to make much good out of it when it’s that restrictive with everything. It’s basically a cash grab at this point. And this app is coming from one of the most recognized computer companies in the whole world. It really does feel like any bootleg software that didn’t get quite finished. And this has been going on for, what, 14 months? Yeah. Microsoft REAAAAALLY needs a wake up call. Because apparently their MSIs aren’t the only things that are decreasing in quality for the past couple years.

It is so unhelpful. I want to just access and write documents. It's so annoying to have the LEADING interface be a chatbot. It should not be harder to access the actual function of Office 365 than to talk to the ChatGPT clone that dominates the functionality and user interface of the app, and yet it is. I'm concerned about how this is impacting vulnerable people who need to develop their own critical thinking and writing skills. I personally refuse to let a chatbot degrade my integrity, but I know a lot of other people still developing the skills of synthesis and analysis are not getting that skill because the temptation is too high when every research and word-processing platform starts off with a chatbot practically begging to write your emails and essays and texts for you. You are depriving people of their ability to build and maintain the skills of mentally processing information, of thinking, for themselves by making it easier to access a robot that wants to write for you and making it harder to even access the option to do things on your own.You aren't supposed to get everything perfect on the first try. You aren't supposed to bypass mistakes. You're supposed to build skills and learn by even having tried in the first place. I'm so tired of this. I hope this 'AI, think for me' culture dies out as fast as possible. I don't want to live in the world that results from people who cannot function without a chatbot telling them how to interact or compose a sentence.