Baffling Microsoft ad shows Copilot incorrectly identifying Windows 11 setting
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4 hours ago
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| windowscentral.com
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al_borland
3 hours ago
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> But even still, the user had asked how to change the size of text, not the UI.

This seems like nitpicking to try and get a gotcha moment. Most normal people who think text is too small at an OS level want the whole display scaled, not just the text. They don’t know to ask for display scaling though, that isn’t a normal thing grandma knows about.

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BrouteMinou
2 hours ago
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That's what I thought.

That's exactly how a "normal" user would ask such things.

I am not a Microsoft fan, or copilot, or even an A.I. fan, but the article seems to try too hard to find a problem here.

That's not like we don't have real examples around...

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watwut
30 minutes ago
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Are they? The reason for larger text for me is that I cant read it. It really does not mean I want who ui bigger, unless it is text being displayed.

Why do you think most people want scalling overall being changed? It does not make sense to me. Contemporary UIs are wasting so much space, there is no reason to double everything. Just the small font you used inside those giant empty spaces.

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stevesimmons
2 hours ago
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Surprised their ads don't show customers getting pissed about a huge, distracting Copilot icon right in the middle of their Word document, with no ability to turn it off...
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hollow-moe
2 hours ago
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website hijacks my back button first press to ask me if i want to see more articles, on the blacklist it goes.
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hyperhello
2 hours ago
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This is going to lead to orginizational Reasons to make everything more complicated so the AI can “shine”…
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nixosbestos
2 hours ago
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What is with these comments? Fixating on scaling being similar to text size is missing the entire god damn point by a mile. Are y'all MSFT employees or windows Stockholm syndrome victims?

Someone on Twitter said it best, you ask the AI to bump the font size, it should bump the fucking font size (or scale the whole UI, whatever! Again, not the point!). Showing off an AI that can't do that, or can't even guide you without you constantly reprompting it is so fucking embarrassingly bad, I seriously question holding a third of my NW in MSFT. Staggeringly impressively stupidly bad.

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deafpolygon
3 hours ago
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Increasing scaling does improve text sizes for visibility.
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