Copilot for Outlook and Gemini for Gmail ship with no tools to actually use your email
emax · x · 2026-10-16
- emax questions the value of Microsoft's Copilot for Outlook and Google's Gemini for Gmail: neither has tools to actually do anything useful with your email, or to articulate the UI they're glued to.
- He argues they've been essentially 100% nonfunctional for maybe two years, and the real damage is that people conclude AI is useless when it's just awful product design.
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