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The worst part is it literally costs them the same to tack on AI they are just hiking the price in order to generate more revenue. Running Word locally does not cost them more.

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Actually I doubt that's true. There is a cost to running AI in the cloud (I assume its not run locally).

Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's in the cloud and not local. Still useless to me.

I use AI all the time when coding (very useful) and ChatGPT in general is also very useful. Never found Windows co-pilot or Office co-pilot useful for anything.

My argument is that running the Windows software on the end users machine does not cost them any additional compute. The AI does, they could “eat the cost” easily. Now they are having people cancel their plans.

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