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Jukka Niiranen @jukkan.bsky.social · 13h

Enkä tarkoita, että tämä oikeuttaisi mielistelyn. Vaan sitä, että oli Stubb mitä mieltä tahansa arvoistansa, kun ollaan töissä Suomen nimissä, niin Stubbkin joutuu nielemään paljon. Vaikkei yläpuolella periaatteessa olekaan ketään.

Jukka Niiranen @jukkan.bsky.social · 13h

Kyllä, se on sitä arkipäivän raadollisuutta. Presidenttitasolla ei ole tarvetta niinkään kalastaa irtopisteitä puolueelle ja vaaleihin. Mutta sielläkään et pääse pakoon sitä, että pienellä Venäjän naapurimaalla on lopulta aika huono käsi pelata pokeria gloaableilla areenoilla.

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AmyF67 @amyf67.bsky.social · 1d

Perjantaita ja viikonloppua kaikille 🍀

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Jukka Niiranen @jukkan.bsky.social · 15h

Tavallaan Stubb tekee juuri sitä työtä, joka presidentille kuuluu. Mutta niin teki myös Kekkonen, ja sitäkin ajanjaksoa katsotaan nyt eri silmin.

Tällaista arvoristiriitaa en ole suomalaisena joutunut vielä aiemmin itse kokemaan. Nyt ymmärtää ikävän paljon paremmin menneisyyttämme.

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Jukka Niiranen @jukkan.bsky.social · 15h

I am immedately taken back to the year 2010 when seeing this Microsoft Company Store experience with Metro UI today.😵‍💫

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 15h

lying

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 16h

How OpenAI put itself at the centre of a $1tn network of deals on.ft.com/4q0tjCV

How OpenAI put itself at the centre of a $1tn network of deals

The company behind ChatGPT has signed agreements with many of the largest tech groups, adding to a growing web of financial dependencies across the AI world

on.ft.com

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Jukka Niiranen @jukkan.bsky.social · 15h

Look at the bright side of applying GenAI in business processes: you now have a realistic chance of being the lucky winner of 1600 free Apple TV remotes.

www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...

LinkedIn post: "We received 1600 Apple TV remotes this morning and nobody ordered them, nobody paid for them, and Apple says they’re ours now."

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Sami Laiho @samilaiho.com · 20h

Kubernetes kicks down Azure Front Door
www.theregister.com/2025/10/09/k...

Kubernetes crash takes down Azure Portal and Microsoft Entra

: This time outage was not actually Microsoft's fault

www.theregister.com

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Its rider’s name was Death... @kittyonunicorn.bsky.social · 18h

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Jukka Niiranen @jukkan.bsky.social · 16h

What Linus Torvalds said back in 2012, @edzitron.com is using more words and numbers to express in 2025.

Ed Zitron in 2025:

"NVIDIA’s deal with Elon Musk also fills me full of dread, as it suggests that NVIDIA has reached the point where its customers are running out of cash, resorting to Enron-adjacent Special Purpose Vehicles and dodgy “rental arrangements” where NVIDIA effectively funds a company to buy its own stuff. Every one of these deals — such as OpenAI’s supposed plan to “lease” GPUs from NVIDIA — is a screaming, flashing alarm that there is simply not enough cash left in the actual hands of actual companies to support NVIDIA’s growth. "

Linus Torvalds in 2012:

"NVIDIA has been the single worst company we’ve ever dealt with. So NVIDIA, f**k you!"

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Jukka Niiranen @jukkan.bsky.social · 18h

Just one example of Microsoft employee's noble attempt to defend the honor of M365 #Copilot with... Well, absolutely no arguments.

"You are misleading by not using sales numbers!"
"Okay, show them to me."
"You're missing the point!"
"Numbers or GTFO."
"Talk to Microsoft PR."

Oh MSFT...😏

LinkedIn comments to my piece on Microsoft 365 Copilot commercial failure.

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Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 1d

(don’t know who made this)

A painting of the building of the pyramids

How tf did they build this without Teams calls, pitch decks, or Al powered workflow optimization programs

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Jukka Niiranen @jukkan.bsky.social · 22h

MS even said at one point that Copilot Appearances feature would support selecting it to look like Clippy. Another broken promise of AI.

Now we just have to run local LLMs with this Clippy Desktop Assistant to get proper @theclippy.bsky.social AI vibes: github.com/felixriesebe...

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 1d

All my comics have happy endings!

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Jukka Niiranen @jukkan.bsky.social · 22h

Meanwhile, customers are saying Microsoft sales reps refuse to talk about any license sales if Copilot is not involved. If you try to negotiate an Azure storage discount, they'll sneak Copilot back into the contract.

From the Pivot To AI video by @davidgerard.co.uk:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPdE...

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Jukka Niiranen @jukkan.bsky.social · 22h

This post is what caused all the fuss. Basically just me taking the 8M active users figure reported by @edzitron.com and sharing it with the Microsoft & partner audience on LinkedIn, saying "have you guys noticed no one wants to pay for M365 Copilot"?🔥

www.perspectives.plus/p/microsoft-...

Microsoft 365 Copilot's commercial failure

The number of paying subscribers for Copilot has leaked, and it is a disaster. Now even reshaping Satya Nadella's CEO role into tech leadership rather than delivering commercial results.

www.perspectives.plus

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Jukka Niiranen @jukkan.bsky.social · 22h

Not all of my newsletter issues spark 300+ comments on social media. But my last week's take on Microsoft 365 Copilot's commercial failure did.

Here's some further thoughts on both what these reactions say and what MS might do next with #Copilot (read: Agents):
www.perspectives.plus/p/selling-mi...

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Jukka Niiranen @jukkan.bsky.social · 1d

Whatever Microsoft tried to do with the $30pupm M365 Copilot subscsription, it has failed. Customers don't see the value, 90% of users choose ChatGPT, MS is blurring the lines with "free" Copilot Chat pushed everywhere.

At 2% after 2 years, it is what it is:
www.perspectives.plus/p/microsoft-...

Microsoft 365 Copilot's commercial failure

The number of paying subscribers for Copilot has leaked, and it is a disaster. Now even reshaping Satya Nadella's CEO role into tech leadership rather than delivering commercial results.

www.perspectives.plus

Jukka Niiranen @jukkan.bsky.social · 1d

If you remember to click the "Try GPT-5" button in Microsoft 365 Copilot, it does a far better job at agenda creation than 3 months ago. All thanks to a model upgrade from OpenAI.

Yet the "premium" Copilot is just getting functionally worse, thanks to this update:

www.linkedin.com/posts/tanjaw...

I’ve never been this anxious about an update. 😬 With Copilot Chat now rolling out to non-licensed users directly inside Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote, many of the integrated… | Tanja...

I’ve never been this anxious about an update. 😬 With Copilot Chat now rolling out to non-licensed users directly inside Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote, many of the integrated features...

www.linkedin.com

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Jukka Niiranen @jukkan.bsky.social · 1d

This is why the massive user preference of ChatGPT over Copilot is so devastating to Microsoft. There's only so much you can get from Outlook, Teams and SharePoint data. "Intimate" discussions with the AI assistant are a context source the OpenAI dominates in.

linkedin.com/feed/update/...

"What's next on my calendar" is boring. "What's next on my agenda" is truly quite a demonstration of the possibilities of GenAI.💡 Opening M365 today, getting taken to the ...

"What's next on my calendar" is boring. "What's next on my agenda" is truly quite a demonstration of the possibilities of GenAI.💡 Opening M365 today, getting taken to the default home page with Copil...

linkedin.com

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Jukka Niiranen @jukkan.bsky.social · 1d

No $200/mo ChatGPT Pro subscription needed. Works on desktop, not just mobile.

Forget about Pulse. Just set up a scheduled task for every morning if you like, with your own specific prompt.

openai.com/index/introd...

Introducing ChatGPT Pulse

Today we're releasing a preview of ChatGPT Pulse to Pro users on mobile. Pulse is a new experience where ChatGPT proactively does research to deliver personalized updates based on your chats, feedback...

openai.com

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Jukka Niiranen @jukkan.bsky.social · 1d

You don't need the ChatGPT Pulse feature. AI only pretends it doesn't know what's on your agenda today.

It does, at least for me. No connectors to email or calendar needed. Thanks to how much I bounce ideas and web searches with ChatGPT, it's far better than Copilot at proposing what I should do.

ChatGPT welcome screen: "What's on the agenda tdoay?"

User prompt: "I don't know, why don't YOU tell me what's on the agenda today?"

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Ed Bott @edbott.com · 1d

Apple has now banned from the App Store multiple apps designed to track ICE deployments and preserve evidence of their behavior.

I guess that gold plaque Tim Cook presented Trump in the Oval Office was just a down payment.

Apple’s Justification for Removing DeICER From the App Store

Link to: https://migrantinsider.com/p/scoop-apple-quietly-made-ice-agents

daringfireball.net

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Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 1d

another Microsoft employee has quit in protest today, sending an email to thousands of colleagues. Protesters are also on campus and have unfurled two banners, criticizing Microsoft's contracts with the Israeli government www.theverge.com/news/797948/...

Another Microsoft employee quits in protest.

The No Azure for Apartheid group are at Microsoft’s campus again today, protesting against the company’s continued contracts with the Israeli government after it blocked some cloud and AI services. Sc...

www.theverge.com

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Corey “🎃Managed NAT Gateway👻” Quinn @quinnypig.com · 1d

I dunno how it works at Amazon, but AI has been shoved into every work product I use, over my objections.

“Until AWS ships it it’s not real?” Please.

An insipid tweet from Andy Jasey, where he talks about how we’ve all experienced how consumer AI can help us in our personal lives, but that same experience hasn’t been available at work

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