This is a threat?
Microsoft is making every Windows 11 PC an AI PC
Submitted 6 months ago by mr_MADAFAKA@lemmy.ml to technology@lemmy.world
https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2025/10/16/making-every-windows-11-pc-an-ai-pc/
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BigBrownBeaver@lemmy.world 6 months ago
DFX4509B_2@lemmy.org 6 months ago
One more reason to restrict Windows to a VM and run Linux or some other *nix on the host for a baremetal OS.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
All glory to the QEMU-toad!
Asafum@feddit.nl 6 months ago
Nice update!
…open O&O shut up and disable, disable, disable, disable. Sweet.
Archer@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Disable? I think you mean Remind Me in Three Days! - Clippy
Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
fuck off, not my shit you wont
NeryK@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
More unwanted bloat to disable, I guess.
FalseTautology@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
You seem knowledgeable, can I remove copilot or make sure it doesn’t install?
NeryK@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
It’s unlikely you can prevent install or remove entire features when Microsoft does not want you to. Depends on how baked-in they make it. More often than not it’s a game of whack-a-mole where you find out what toggles are available that disable stuff you do not want.
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Tiny11 is how I did it on my dial boot system. Cleanest Windows Install since Windows XP. But I‘m mainly using Linux because it just works.
bigchungus@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
From what I’m reading it’s just Cortana 2.0
BoloMKXXVIII@piefed.social 6 months ago
Clippy 3.0
Kissaki@feddit.org 6 months ago
Hey Copilot, what happened to Cortana?
TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Microsoft is so incredibly fucked when the AI bubble starts to burst. They’ve abandoned so many of their other projects and customers to go all-in on it.
BassTurd@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I keep parroting this, but in the next couple of years, I think there will be a couple of giants that fall. I work in ServiceNow and they, like many others, have gone all in on AI. Their problem is that they were slower than some, their solution is half baked at best, and it’s prohibitively expensive. Nobody is paying 10s of thousands+ extra for the licensing to be able to run agents, and less are paying the extra licensing required for the users to be able to use that agent.
I’ve now been pulled into copilot studio, and yet again it’s another product rushed to market that isn’t ready for the big stage. Dog shit documentation and training material, and terrible environment design.
All of these big players have invested so much money in adding AI, nobody wants it, and now they’re all hemoragging money.
jjlinux@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
Precisely my thoughts. Companies that are all in on this, except for 2 or 3 of the ones that actually are making headway on AI (as opposed to just mirroring Sam Altman’s ponzy scheme like Microsoft is doing), will eventually crash and burn.
Look at Apple, they’ve been left behind in the AI race, but they have other good stuff thatsome of their fans will support (I’m using the word “good” very lightly here), and with their market value and endless cash flow, they are way more likely to still be here 10 years from now.
None of us can see the future, but we can look at the signs. MS will never be a point of reference for AI, as that task belongs to OpenAI and Google exclusively for now (and Meta to some extent).
cley_faye@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Their problem is that they were slower than some, their solution is half baked at best, and it’s prohibitively expensive
Sounds like a lot of company these days.
Kissaki@feddit.org 6 months ago
It won’t make a difference.
What other projects they abandoned do you see as so critical that it would break Microsoft?
Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Windows Live Writer, obviously.
z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
Copilot, Github, LinkedIn, ChatGPT are the ones that come to mind. All of them have started to degrade in quality in one way or another, and with the exception of LinkedIn, they all have competitors that could potentially, over the long haul, could dismantle Microsoft. They’re also running out of places to extend and extinguish.
It probably won’t happen in one or two lifetimes, but enough cracks in a dam accumulate and eventually the whole thing breaks.
artyom@piefed.social 6 months ago
Hate to tell you, but we’re all incredibly fucked. Least of all Microsoft. They know what they’re doing. They most certainly already have a plan for recovery, as they know it’s coming just as well as everyone else.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
I dunno. I feel like they are like the cable company now. They will jus sit there twiddling their nipples while we are all fucked.
z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
Oh really, how bummed would they be?
PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world 6 months ago
They will be fine. They are second most valuable company in the world. They have money to throw around and their source of income still seem inexhaustible. A few new Linux users won’t even make a dent.
LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
I need the cable company (or similar) due to the fact that infrastructure is hard to deploy, and we need Internet to participate in society.
Nobody needs Microsoft cause every single one of their products has an alternative that’s at least as good.
They survive by courting enterprises, but many of them can also switch away if they want.
MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Microsoft is doing more for Linux adoption than anyone else ever has lol
FenrirIII@lemmy.world 6 months ago
And literally 99% of their userbase will stay on Windows.
zewm@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Valve with Steamdeck and Proton development: “Am I a joke to you?”
towerful@programming.dev 6 months ago
Steam took the cap off the toothpaste tube.
Microsoft is giving the toothpaste tube a good squeeze!SaltSong@startrek.website 6 months ago
They are helping, yes, but windows 11 is a driving force like I’ve never seen.
BassTurd@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I’ve got two friends that are right in the edge of trying. One has a spare thin client that he wants to PoC with and was asking for distros and how to install. The other was thinking of jumping in the deep end with Arch, and I’ve warned him, but the wiki is solid, he’s not dumb, and Arch install is better than it ever has been.
Vakbrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Honestly, big shoutout to Microsoft for the strong push to get me in Linux’s loving embrace.
Double shoutout to them for making it very easy to not even considering to come back.
JigglySackles@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I have said the same as well. Prior to them dropping the fat grumpy that is 11, I was all in on the windows ecosystem for myself. I heavily modified it of course so it didn’t have a bunch of the nonsense but overall, the experience was good. But then they started warping 10, and then they came out with 11 which was massive garbage at release and now is worse garbage years down the road. And with that AI outlook, I’m full on bailing from everything.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 6 months ago
MS has to justify thier cost of spending so much money on AI datacenters, they need everyone to buy it to offset the unprofitable cost of AI usage. thats why they are so desperate and suddenly trying to force W11 down peoples throat.
artyom@piefed.social 6 months ago
And Mac.
MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Yes definitely, but mentioning anything good about Apple on Lemmy gets you stitches…
tidderuuf@lemmy.world 6 months ago
That and backwards compatibility for Win7 & Win10. Shares of those OSs have gone up and several application developers have announced continued support or are advocating for unlocking/keeping secure those OSs.
Brkdncr@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Source?
twinnie@feddit.uk 6 months ago
I honestly don’t mind as long as it’s down with permission. At least Microsoft are trying to do something interesting, computers are so boring nowadays. You could take any of the operating systems and wind them back five years and I probably wouldn’t notice.
cley_faye@lemmy.world 6 months ago
From Microsoft “fuck you now all your files are on onedrive”, sure, they can be trusted. After all, it’s not like microsoft “I’m wiping this bootloader for you” have done anything shady before. Microsoft “I’ll revert those default apps settings because you clearly wanted edge when you changed everything to firefox/chrome” is THE company that respects user decisions. Microsoft “I’ll update and reboot now, fuck you” really knows how to stay in line and not do the opposite of what users want.
Really, what could go wrong in believing that Microsoft “I shit you not, you want to open that link in edge even though you uninstalled it” will honor the end-looser checking or unchecking a checkbox.
ryrybang@lemmy.world 6 months ago
OS’s should be boring. Applications are the interesting part of the computer. Anytime you get an OS trying to be “interesting” it’s really just invasive/annoying. OS is the bass player in the band.