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Australia sues Microsoft for forcing Copilot AI onto Office 365 customers (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 2 days ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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Call and demand a refund and reversion to Classic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8bHlG_NvLU&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251028-australia-sues-microsoft-over-forcing-copilot-ai-onto-office-365-customers - podcast

time: 7 min 08 sec

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[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yet another of those recent Australian Ws.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

recent and rare, tbh. cries in FTTN

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It's usually a mixed bag with Australian news, TBH.

"LABOR WINS! HOUSING DEVELOPMENTS WILL CONTINUE!"

*yaaaaaaay

"They're dropping climate goals."

*booooooo

"THEY'RE HOLDING OFFICIALS RESPONSIBLE FOR CRIMES AND CORRUPTION! RESTRICTING FOREIGN INFLUENCE!"

*yaaaaaaay

"We're going to kill every koala and bathe in their blood."

*booooooo

[–] Reach_the_man@awful.systems 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

We’re going to kill every koala

merciful tbh

[–] flowerysong@awful.systems 2 points 2 days ago

Strictly speaking I think they're being sued for not forcing it on their customers. If it had been genuinely a change in service offerings that everyone was forced to accept I think they would have been in the clear, but resorting to trickery instead of force is a no-no.