Comment on Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin
daikiki@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
They’ve really painted themselves into a corner with their AI investments. It’s starting to look like the total addressable market is a small fraction of what they’d need to break even on their atrociously ill-advised investments into the sector, and now they’re becoming increasingly desperate to shoehorn a technology that nobody wants into everything they can.
Literally everybody who has an inkling of an idea of what’s going on in the AI space knows how this ends, but somehow the board and c-staff at MSFT are not counted amongst the inkling havers. In a few years they’re going to have to write off countless billions that they’ve wasted on this idiocy and nobody will be surprised but them.
The way I see it, they think GenAI is the new portal to information, the way search has been for the last 25-30 years. They want to control that portal, because it’s worth trillions over time.
This is why they’re cramming it into everything and worrying about use cases later. It’s a land grab.
That kinda makes sense. Thank you for sharing your optics.
I heard that phrase “optics” for the first time in the TV show Succession. Is it something that ordinary people use or just wealthy people?
It’s mainly used by people who work in public relations or robotics
It has honestly been glorious watching Microsoft do this, they deserve this dead end and much worse honestly.
What do you mean people don’t want machine learning chatbots spewing out bullshit in every facet of their lives and technology use?
Parrots with a stolen dictionary.
But they made Google dance, right? Maybe that’s all Satya Nadella needed out of it.
Cant write off something that isnt even in the books…
nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 14 hours ago
Apparently when Satya Nadella took over, Steve Ballmer told him “don’t screw up”. In terms of stock price and profits, he absolutely hasn’t. In terms of producing products that consumers might actually want to pay for, he has failed completely and Microsoft has never been in a worse position. But those two things are completely disconnected now so it’s fine.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Ya know, I’m not a linux “supporter” in the traditional sense. I usually find it annoying when people hijack these threads to say they use linux.
But man…even though I don’t have a clue what I’m doing in linux, I’d rather be on linux than windows 11.
mrcleanup@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
We have passed the point where it has to be complicated. If you choose something like Garuda, Bazzite, or Mint, it should be a pretty straightforward switch.
Emptiness@lemmy.world 35 minutes ago
I’ve held out a while but this is just getting ridiculous. I’m taking the leap.
As I use my home machine mainly for gaming, which version is best for me?
Valmond@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
And contrary to windows, it’s learn once, use forever.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
I’m on ZorinOS, which I’m told is very similar to Mint.
cygnus@lemmy.ca 13 hours ago
It’s OK, you’re on Lemmy, we all use Linux here so you’re among friends (or bitter enemies if your distro of choice is Ubuntu)
Lydia_K@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
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nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 12 hours ago
A good low (basically zero) risk way to start is to flash an image of say Ubuntu onto a flash drive. They’re usually bootable. So you can boot into Linux right off the flash drive.
This obvious takes a performance hit compared to actually installing it, but it’ll let you confirm that it actually works on your hardware.
Valmond@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
And IIRC you xan choose to just keep it (so install it) right from there.
You can also load it up, and then do wild stuff and install, upgrade things (which will disappear ofc.).
That USB boot is crazy cool if you think about it IMO.