voice as input? lol, can you imagine a busy office with workers all talking at the same time? this is stupid. MS is stupid. I’ll stick to Linux thanks.
Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface
Submitted 8 months ago by mr_MADAFAKA@lemmy.ml to technology@lemmy.world
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letsgo2themall@lemmy.world 8 months ago
No1@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Pffffft! As if any humans are employed in an office!
It’s AI agents all the way down!
veeesix@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Microsoft really doing everything in their power to make sure I never buy another Windows PC.
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I setup a Windows 11 laptop for a friend yesterday, I cannot believe the amount of ads built into the new user experience which are disguised as installation options.
I had to find the tiny, low contrast skip button to avoid signing up for more cloud storage, a Copilot subscription, and an Office365 subscription before I was even able to see the desktop.
The entire left side of the start bar seens to be a news feed which shows ads, opening an Office app requires closing a Copilot ad unless you disable it (individually for every application), it’s impossible to create a local user account, it looks like the user folder defaults to their cloud storage so just saving things into your document folder will eventually result in scary “You’re almost out of space, buy more here!” ads disguised as system promots, and your bitlocker recovery key is saved in you Microsoft account.
That’s just what I noticed in the first 20 minutes.
I’m so glad I ejected from that dumpster fire of an OS.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
And the normies know nothing different and nothing will change. As we get further to to ad hellscape and they find it normal, we will be the only ones screaming that they are insane for having so many ads.
mesamunefire@piefed.social 8 months ago
Its so much slower on my old win 10 machine at work. Meanwhile my Linux box got faster
dparticiple@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
None of these are things I want in an OS.
hamFoilHat@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Depending on what the hell “ambient” means in this context that one might be okay. The other two though, eww.
JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Good thing he didn’t actually say it would be the next Windows doing any of those things. He didn’t even say it would be the OS:
“I think we will see computing become more ambient, more pervasive, continue to span form factors, and certainly become more multi-modal in the arc of time … I think experience diversity is the next space where we will continue to see voice becoming more important. Fundamentally, the concept that your computer can actually look at your screen and is context aware is going to become an important modality for us going forward.”
The important and scarier part is actually the last sentence, not anything from the article title.
etherphon@piefed.world 8 months ago
MORE pervasive? Everyone is already buried in their phones ffs.
dparticiple@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Well put. I confess that my hot take was based on skimming the title of the article, and as you note, their vision is even more dystopian. Fire the pixels onto the screen and forget about them, I say!
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Yup, I want “unobtrusive, lightweight, compatible, and secure.” Basically, the best case for an OS is that I don’t notice it.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Windows XP was the greatest OS of all time.
All we’re doing now is wandering away from perfection.
Zen_Shinobi@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Micro$oft doing this has been the best thing for Linux and MacOS
vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
Honestly I think we missed the moment when Linux went the wrong path too.
puppinstuff@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
[deleted]Canconda@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Enterprise customers I guess.
floofloof@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
They don’t want it either. Generally they just want something stable and usable.
wioum@lemmy.world 8 months ago
“10 will be the last OS”
herrvogel@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That was said by some random Microsoft employee who had no official capacity to say something like that, and the whole thing sounded like they meant to say “latest” anyway. It is and was a worthless statement that got way more attention than it deserved.
etherphon@piefed.world 8 months ago
They're no Spinal Tap, for sure.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 8 months ago
The last one I pay for anyway. Not even sure I actually paid for that one…