Microsoft Copilot being added to Microsoft 365 accounts

 So recently it has been announced that if you have a Microsoft 365 account that copilot was being added to the office products.

Copilot is the artificial intelligence or AI that Microsoft has been adding to their products. If you are on a Windows 11 PC there is a button for Copilot. If you use Microsoft Edge, Microsoft's web browser, it has a copilot button. And now they are adding it to the Microsoft Office suite (Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint). If you are on their Microsoft 365 account the version that anyone can pay $69.99 a year for, with them adding Copilot the price is about to go up to $100 a year.

I have been paying $69.99 a year to use office for awhile. The reason is with Microsoft's current model they do not want anyone buying a software license, which by the way now starts at $200 for software that Microsoft may end support for in three years. I do not use the cloud versions of the office suite and with the $69.99 a year I can download office on at least five computers and I do not have to worry about updates or having to buy a new software license. 

Now my loyal reader that is probably wondering why I am writing a blog about this.

I did not get the option to opt out of getting copilot added to my office suite. And I did not want a $30 price increase to my yearly subscription for something that I am going to try to avoid using like the plague. I do not need AI in everything that I do on a daily basis. I mean I understand that it is supposed to make people more productive and improve their writing. But I already have Grammerly for that and it is not constantly in my face like Copilot will be. 

Are there alternatives to dealing with this yes. I am learning one of course, but it has a learning curve that will take awhile to get the full use of it. It is called Libreoffice. It is FREE and it can be easily found by Google searching it. 

So I know that some of you are asking how to avoid it in other products like Microsoft Edge. I use Google Chrome, Firefox, I am possibly looking at downloading and using the Brave browser.

There are plenty of alternatives out there you just have to be willing to search for it and be open to learn something new. 

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Not Sure Where to Start Again....

 To the World,

It has been 11 years since the first post on this blog. I had written off and on since the beginning until 2019 when I wrote what I thought was going to be my final post. And the reason that I say I thought it was going to be the last post is because I had killed anything related to this blog in terms of promotion. I did not write a lot because I was either just so busy to sit down and write something or I just felt like people were not reading it anymore. So where has Mortis been these past 6 years?

Well I have been busy with my current job. I have been busy finishing up some loose ends in terms of my educational goals. But now that those are done and a few other things have been put behind me. I feel that I can possibly start blogging again. 

Originally I was looking through some old email accounts and was reminded that I had this blog. To my surprise all of the writing I did between 2014 and 2019 was still there. Looking through those blogs and the world has changed a lot since I wrote those posts. I looked at those old posts and realized how far technology and things in the world have come. 

We no longer use Windows XP/7/8 as a PC operating system. iPads are now popular and used everywhere. Windows 10 was the operating system of the time during most of my blogs. Windows 11 is here to stay for now (unfortunately). Artificial Intelligence is becoming the big debate in technology the past couple of years. 

So keep in the mind that world has changed, and I have gotten older, but I am still the same blogger that will write about anything that I find interesting or whatever comes to mind. 

For those of you that are new to this blog or the writer of this blog. I can be found on X at Mortis Angelus on X. I doubt I will be back on Facebook due to the weirdness over there. That is a blog for another time.

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Class of 2019: A Small Overview

*Please note that this may or may not offend some people. This is an overview of a small group of high school students, at one high school, and that high school is somewhere in the U.S.*

To my readers,

This is an overview from a conversation with someone I know that teaches high school students who will be graduating in 2019. I know how "precious" our future is to some people, but no one really pays attention to the whole picture. Google the instructor that got fired for not giving her students a "50", but gave them the grade they actually deserve.

Imagine as an instructor in this class of seniors that gets an answer like you are about to read"

"I gotta make that bread"
"We all gotta earn that bread"

So how would you react to this as the instructor?

Some of today's high school students are either highly stressed to pass a class, to the point where they email or ask their instructor 1,000 questions. Which the instructor does not mind asking the student's questions even though the student itself feels like they are bugging the instructor, which adds more stress to the student. Or the student does not care and starts class work but will not turn in the rest of the work for a class, but will not comprehend why they are not passing the class and they blame everything and anything but themselves. There are some students that think they can do enough to pass but not take into account that the work they do not turn in will hurt there grade.

How would you grade the following answer if you were the instructor:

"I do not care what I do in life, as long as I am happy".

It does not really answer the assignment but you also know that you are supposed to give "leniency". How much of that do you give before the instructor feels like they are "giving" grades because they do not want to be fired or reprimanded. It is actually hurting the students in the long run, because they feel they can go to college and just "walk through" without really learning anything. Then there are the question of where are the parents. It is about 50/50 whether or not the parents care about their kids future and education.

I am a member of generation x and this is what will be taking care of us one day.

Until next blog,

Mortis Angelus

Burning it down....

To my readers/followers,

2019 has started, and everyone has new year resolutions. Some that you actually accomplish, and some that burn up in your face. I am one of those people that carries emotional baggage and have done so for years. That is what the title of this blog means. The only goal I have this year is to finally let all that I have carried all these years go and it is just time to move on. You can only carry so much regret, anger, want for revenge, sadness, and anything else you can think of so long before you break. Which to be honest I have been "broken" for awhile. It has all been to life's little situations. People that cause you harm either leave your life because they choose to or you simply refused to let them go. I have had a lot of people walk out of my life with 0 reason and I have let it bother me. People who ever wronged me, well I hope they got what they deserved by now. I am a big believer in Karma, but sometimes I think she could even think outside of the box. But that is just me. I have spent years sorting out my demons but I think it is time to let them go. I know that not all of them will leave but that is just because of all of the "deadness" I have. I will always been the same person due to it, but I just want to feel a little free-er. I guess that is why I decided one day that I am not getting any younger and I need to fix things within myself.

So that is my only "self-help"  goal for 2019.....

I have about 12 other goals I want to do this year, but there is no way I will get them all done in 2019.

Until next blog....

Mortis Angelus

Just a reminder...

To my readers,

I want to take a moment and thank you all for reading the pervious post. I want to write this and I want you all to keep this in mind. New year same blogger....

That being said some of my blog posts you might find offensive. I write from what I see and hear going on around me. These are my feelings and opinions on the various subjects I write on. If you disagree with what I write all I can say is I am sorry that you did not like my post that moment of time. I have been writing this blog on and off since 2014. Please feel free to read my previous blogs.

So here is your reminder:

"Some of the material in these blog posts you the reader might become offended. I, the blogger known as Mortis, write from my black heart and my dark soul, and do here by in advance "apologize" to you, the reader".

Sincerely,

Mortis Angelus

Not the End....Afterall

To my readers,

It has been a year since I last wrote anything. I ended this blog because I had a lot going on at the time. Between 2017 and now I was busy with the job that I no longer have. I had lost interest in writing a blog. I had to be honest lost interest in a lot of things, but I gave up on my blog. I felt pressured to write and I did not want to write "filler". I also know that as of late people can be easily offended and that is the other reason I quit writing. I know by now that this blog probably does not have a lot of audience remaining. A lot of things have changed since then. I have moved on to another job that is a lot less stressful. My now former boss basically informed me that he felt like I did not know what I was doing and he felt like that I possibly "lied" to him and the company. I did not do either. I was under a lot of stress. My former job had a lot of responsibilities. There was a lot of things going on behind the scenes that I did not agree with. So an opportunity opened up in the fall and I went after it. To my surprise, I got it. So my new job is a lot better on me. Yes it is challenging and it is VERY different, but it is still Information technology related and that is the main thing. The past four years working different I.T. jobs has taught me a lot, and professionally it has been the best 4 years, even though I have moved to different jobs. I am wanting my current job to be the job that I can retire from. I know that things change and I could be somewhere else, but I am hoping that I can stay where I am now. I am not a young man anymore and it is time to think of staying somewhere permanently.

So now many of you are asking why am I posting a blog, now? I said in 2017 I was ending this blog and just leaving the posts for anyone to read. Well I decided it was time to try this again and hopefully I can keep up with it. I am hoping that maybe I can pursue this as a hobby again. But like everything else we will see.

This will probably be the only post of 2018, since 2019 is right around the corner so I want to start this over with a clean slate. So if you have been following this blog for awhile or if you are new to my blog take a look at the old posts. I have been writing off and on for 4 years now.

So until next time,

Mortis

The End...My Final Post....

So where do I want to begin....

It has been 9 months since I last wrote anything. Why you may ask I have been simply too busy to write. A lot has gone on since March, 2017. But I have decided after 3 years that I need to end this blog. The blog will be here in spirit I will still share the posts from time to time. But I just will not write anything. This started as a dare and it was to be something that I could write how I was feeling or do a review or simply something different. But the world has changed so much since my first post. We live in a very different world where people can find  what you write or say so offensive and to me that is scary. Because some of my posts are very opinionated. Plus me ending this blog on a high note with 180 posts, I think that is fair to you the reader. I never dreamed that this project would be as successful as it was. All of my other projects failed and this one was doing good. But time has become a factor and I have developed writer's block. Plus as I mentioned earlier we live in a way too sensitive world. I do not want to ever offend anyone, either intentionally or accidently. People can twist words way to easily and as we see here lately if you watch the news at all, that is exactly what is going on.

It is just time to throw in the towel...

Thank you all for being there.....