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"Meet the computer that spies on you in totally new and innovative ways"
I mean the whole "AI" trend would be just "whatever" to me if they didn't force it onto people that hard (and if it didn't fuck over the environment).
Luckily I installed [REDACTED] on my rig years ago!
Fuck this then. I guess I'm going for linux
Yeah, and I'm sure it also wanted middle managers to write COBOL.
Beyond that sounding tedious as fuck, how much will that actually improve workflow? Or is this one of those features that sounds good to people with C level intelligence, and the rest of us just have to pretend we're using.
I can only imagine the utter chaos this would cause in a cube farm.
But, the only place where talking to your computer at length makes any sense whatsoever is where you're alone in a private office and nobody outside of the office can hear you. Nobody wants to hear other people talking to their computer, and nobody wants other people listening to what they're doing on the computer.
My spouse and I both work from home and keep our office doors open so that the cats can come and go. We have absolutely no interest in hearing each other work. I know couples that share a home office. It's like these fucknut executives at M$ think everyone either lives alone or has a private office in the east wing of their McMansion.
And all of that is ignoring the fact that you shouldn't need AI to interpret what somebody wants a computer to do. Discreet commands for discreet tasks have been a thing for as long as computers have existed and there's no reason for that to change, regardless of the input method. Making commands fuzzy and open to interpretation is not an improvement.
I was curious about an LLM-powered terminal, so downloaded it to check it out. The first thing I did was ask it to do something like "open my resume file," and instead doing something like "ls | grep -i resume" in the current directory, it ran the find command on root and started hitting all my NFS mounts as well.
Microsoft:
Your computer?
No.
Our computer.
That you pay for the hardware for, that you pay regular rent to use in any way, that we use for anything we want, at any time, that must be always online to function.
Innovation.
EDIT:
I've said it before, Windows is going to end up as a Corpo ONLY OS, for orgs and people who cannot escape their vendor lock-in trap.
No sane, moderately knowledgeable/informed person would willingly choose to start with a home or business setup oriented around Windows, unless there truly is something that only works on Windows that they for some reason need and cannot use an alternative.
Their entire business model is complex, opaque cost shifting and 'gradual' enshittification within their rent-based ecosystem lock-in.
GTFO as soon as you can, as a person or business or whatever, this will only keep getting worse.
I don't get it. Can I tell it to move a file from one folder to the other? Can I ask it to give me a diff of two folders? Or tell me if files are missing from one folder? Can it keep a sync between folders? Last time I checked, it only answered a bunch of simple questions.
What can this thing do that they keep trying to push it so bad?
What can this thing do that they keep trying to push it so bad?
Harvest any data they can from you to mine and sell
As much as I hate the idea and do not intend to be a part of it, I think their idea is that you won't be thinking in terms of folders anymore. You'll just say what you need. According to them
I recall articles that younger generations don't even really understand the concept of folders or files per se, because they've learned about them differently on smartphones.
Microsoft has no say what happens on my workstation, and never had any.
Not a week goes by without a headline reminding me what a good decision it was to jump ship to Linux.
The hell with that, fuck you MS.
Nah I'm good I don't dig talking to inanimate objects.
Can it be disabled?
Not worth considering. Even if one can disable it now, we can't trust that they won't disable that option eventually.
Just use Linux and these questions become "Oh no. Anyways...".
Can it be disabled?
Sure! There'll be a dialog box that comes up every single time that you wake your PC saying:
"Do you want to activate AwesomeAI™ now? 98 percent of the functions of this OS are crippled or unusable until you activate AwesomeAI™ so Microsoft recommends doing so immediately."
And the two options will be "OMG Yes!" , or "Maybe Later".
"We are on the cusp of the next AI evolution, in which we, the tech company, can simply say the word 'Money' to our AI, and it will automatically transfer money directly from our investors into our wallets. Future versions won't require us to say anything, permitting AIs to write their own next press release for budding, just-around-the-corner technology in an E-mail to investors."
I like Windows. I like AI. But this like is based on me having ownership over them. Microsoft is what has convinced me to move to Linux when an official SteamOS Desktop is released.
Or you can just as easily install a Linux distro, because that's all steamOS is but slightly game-ified. If anything you'd probably have a better desktop experience with a distro built with that in mind.
I love the idea!
I absolutely despise it when it is locked down from the user, owned by the corporation that produced it, and operating as an arm of the surveillance state.
Even discounting the need for safeguards, sanity-checks, and verifiability of information.
Those monstrosities are not allowed in my home until I can remove the spyware operating system.
