2mo ago

Australia sues Microsoft for forcing Copilot AI onto Office 365 customers

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

In November last year, Microsoft released its plans to force a Copilot upgrade and a price rise onto all Office 365 “personal and family” (consumer) users — “to reflect the value we’ve …

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

5 comments

Yet another of those recent Australian Ws.
- recent and rare, tbh. cries in FTTN
  
  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

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.