They can’t do that. They have all of their money riding on AI. They can’t have own any data that might show the all-mightly Shareholders that they bet wrong.
Sunflier@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I never bought Windows 11 for AI shit. It wasn’t even what came with 11 originally. Hey Microsoft, why not make a version of Windows 11 with all the AI stuff fully turned on and call it Windows 11-AI. You sell it separately and up charge ad much ad you want. Just reset 11 to no AI and have it be the bare bones 11.
Rooster326@programming.dev 1 week ago
pornpornporn@lemmynsfw.com 1 week ago
Also, the AI-Windows could be upsold as a luxury, which means you can charge more for AI-11.
… If people were willing to pay for it, which is a tiny percentage of the small percentage of people that want AI on their windows. Even the people that are all in on chatgpt will very rarely accept paying a cent for it (and it must be a bargain considering that openAI said a few months ago that the average premium plan is a net loss for them due to the server costs)
The way things have been going it’s more likely that the AI-free version will be the upsold luxury
Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Because they make so much more $ from selling your data. Microsoft would rather push these AI programs in an update, and bank on their users not noticing. The majority of users operate in a walled garden, they aren’t editing registry files or manually running commands, so they are less likely to notice the changes. It’s the power users that notice this shit, and sound the alarm.