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Comment on Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface

Feyd@programming.dev ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I think a lot of people are going to struggle getting their head around the idea of voice being a reliable, primary input method when using a PC, but with agentic AI and the ability for the OS to understand user intent and natural language, it’s going to feel a lot more natural than you might think.

You’re damn right we’re going to struggle. I won’t believe it is reliable enough to be anything but infuriating until I see it.

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Quantenteilchen@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I hate all MS Office products for their “smartness” already!

No Word, I chose those words and this spelling very precisely thank you very much. And no PowerPoint, I would like to align these things with actual precision even between your auto-snap guides and kilometer-per-arrow-press positions…

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suicidaleggroll@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Ugh, not this voice control BS again. It’s like the people who pop up every once in a while asking why there isn’t a “natural English” programming language. It’s because human language is imprecise and full of nuance. To describe something to the precision needed for a computer to take action and actually do the thing you want it to do, you have to be so ridiculously verbose in your description that it would take 10-100x longer than just clicking a button with your mouse or typing a command on the keyboard.

Have none of these people ever sat behind someone operating a computer and tried to instruct them to do something even moderately complex? About 5 minutes in I’m usually tearing my hear out screaming “JUST LET ME SIT IN THE CHAIR AND DO IT MYSELF!”

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floofloof@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I tried dictating a talk onto the computer in several ways recently. Not one piece of software was able to do it without me having to edit constantly. I haven’t seen anyone get voice input to the point where it isn’t a pain. I highly doubt Microsoft figured out reliable voice input but kept it back for Windows 12. It’s going to be the same shit.

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