“We set out to solve one of the most common frustrations we hear — finding and changing settings on your PC — using the power of AI agents,” Navjot Virk, corporate vice president of Windows Experiences at Microsoft, said in a blog post on Tuesday. “An agent uses on-device AI to understand your intent and with your permission, automate and execute tasks.”
If you have to supply your users with AI support to figure out how to configure your OS, you might be doing something wrong.
terraborra@lemmy.nz 3 weeks ago
Seems like it would have been cheaper, easier, and better pr to just simplify settings or have them in more logical categories, but what would I know.
nickhammes@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
If a problem exists, and you try to fix it without AI, do you even stand a chance at getting promoted?
thefartographer@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
It’s rather apparent that you composed this comment without AI. Guess I’ll have to give that pay raise to myself again…
echodot@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Of course this is a solved problem and has been a solved problem for at least 15 years now. It’s called a flat wide hierarchy. Rather than trying to put everything into categories you just put everything into alphabetical order and then have a search box. Want to change the background, it’s under B for Background, rather than having to go to
Display Settings > Customisation > Desktop Background > Custom Background > Select Image
dgriffith@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
It’s much more fun to just half-ass a new control panel with only a few features, and then hide the old, fully-functional control panel.
Bonus points if you can then begrudgingly finally show the old, useful, control panel when a user clicks 6 layers deep in the new panel.
Quazatron@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
First time using Microsoft products, is it?