Posted by mossTechnician 1/7/2026
On Linux it does nothing, on Windows it tells me I need an Office 365 plan to use it.
Like... What the hell... They literally placed a paywalled Windows only physical button on my laptop.
What next, an always-on screen for ads next to the trackpad?
I'm serious. They dropped the Office branding and their office suite is now called Copilot.
This is good news because it means the Copilot button opens Copilot, which is exactly what you'd expect it to do.
Local speech recognition is genuinely useful and much more private than server based options.
But I use the 3Gb all day every day.
I built a personal voice agent
The return back to physical buttons makes the XPS look pretty appealing again.
I love my 2020 XPS.
The keyboard keys on mine do not rattle, but I have seen newer XPS keyboard keys that do rattle. I hope they fixed that.
I remember when LLMs were taking off, and open-weight were nipping at the heels of frontier models, people would say there's no moat. The new moat is high bandwidth RAM as we can see from the recent RAM pricing madness.
This does not fit my observation. It's rather that running one's local LLM is currently far too complicated for the average PC user.
They just want a good PC that runs Word and Excel and likely find the fact that Copilot keeps popping up in Word every time they open a new document to be annoying rather than helpful.