Sorry Microsoft, but I have to give you this…

Many years ago, I heard a joke. It goes like this.

A helicopter pilot with three passengers is flying around near Stockholm.
It’s foggy, and he can’t see a thing — but he needs to find an airport where he can land this damn chopper.

He spots a very tall building, and on the top floor, a man is sitting at a desk with the window open. As all chopper pilots obviously do, he has a megaphone in the cockpit and shouts out to the person in the room:

“Where am I?”

The office guy reaches for his megaphone (standard office equipment back in the day) and shouts back:

“You are in a helicopter, about 120 meters above the ground in Stockholm.”

The helicopter pilot turns the chopper 120 degrees, flies for 8–10 minutes, and makes a perfect landing at the airport. His passengers turn to him and say:

“How???”

The helicopter pilot explains:

“Easy. I asked the guy a simple question, and he gave me a 100% correct answer that was absolutely useless — so I figured he was from Microsoft Support. And I know where that is!”

And now for the why?

My son is flying home from the US today, in-route to make it to Poznan and attend Directions EMEA 2025 starting on Tuesday. I knew he was flying from Salt Lake City to Amsterdam and wanted to see which plane and what time, to I went to edge (which now is powered by CoPilot) and asked:

klm flights salt lake city to amsterdam on October 31st

I know, I should have been more specific and what I wanted to know, but really:

A ton of 100% correct, but useless information, giving me absolutely nothing. Then I tried the same with ChatGPT:

which gave me what I was looking for.

Verdict

I know, I could have asked better or more politely, but I thought it was funny – a 100% correct but totally useless answer. Thanks Microsoft 🙂

This post was written on November 1st, 2025 – AI’s might/will change…

Until next time

A Daily Prompt | Freddy Kristiansen