Great question Michael

ElCanut@jlai.lu to Technology@beehaw.org – 822 points –
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Just ask Copilot

You mean Cortana which was a rebrand of Clippy.

Marketing people at MS:
What should we name this virtual assistant? How about Cortana? What’s a Cortana? It’s that assistant from Halo, it’s like Clippy but with boobs.

Clippy never had a voice and tbh the one that comes to mind for him is not very easy on the ears. Like downpitched spongebob.

Clippy’s voice is the shrieks of bending metal, but on too small a scale to be heard by human ears.

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As a Google Workspace user, I recommend going off the grid somewhere streetview can't find you...

Why does Google charge more to enterprise users and why do they bother to pay for that?

Enterprises usually need/want additional features, customizations or guarantees, like for example:

  • integration of a Single Sign-On system
  • on-premise hosting
  • Service-Level Agreement for the availability of the service

Businesses pay for software with support

What the fuck does Google know about support? They've never supported anything.

Not the stuff us plebs use for free, businesses tend to have support contracts

Enterprise can afford more than individuals and all businesses always find a way to make enterprise customers pay more.

For example when you buy a plane ticket, it's much cheaper if you have a weekend between your onward and outward trip. Because business travelers will travel during the week.