yay marketing words!
This means you can expect Windows to get, "verbose, invasive, and difficult-to-use"
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What? Why would anyone want this?
That was my first thought, like what the fuck, I don't want my OS creeping on all my shit.
It won't matter, they will serve slop and most people will happily eat it.
A lack of even basic technology literacy hurts everyone so much. Most people have zero clue how their stuff works and zero interest to learn. Its easy to manipulate an ignorant population as we see again and again.
My favorite simple example is "do you shit with the door open? No? OK then privacy does have value--for all involved."
Am I missing something here? The quotes from said lead don‘t mention „the next Windows“ anywhere. He‘s just thinking out loud about what he thinks working on a computer will be like 5 years from now. This is click bait and I wouldn‘t be surprised if they quietly change the title later on after they farmed enough clicks. Awful.
Compute will become pervasive, as in Windows experiences are going to use a combination of capabilities that are local and that are in the cloud.
...what does Davuluri think "pervasive" means?
Apparently "invasive but like, when it's a good thing".
You get to mine crypto for microsoft?
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I bet the computer won't function (or at least not properly) without an internet connection.
Thanks, I hate it!
I hope one day my kids will come to me and ask me: “Windows? What is that?”
That is a lot of words to say it will be shittier and have more ads...
Maybe someone should inform mr. lead over there that ambient and pervasive do not go together all that great. But then again, windows 11 ‘s components do not seem to play along too well, so they might not be sure what congruence actually is about.
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take the penguin-pill and get out now!
If I could just play new multiplayer games on it, for me the next version of windows would be Linux.
Eww
Hey Microsoft, remember when you made the start menu bigger in win 8 and everyone hated it? Good luck changing everything about the UI. I'm sure it'll be super popular this time.
I’m sureAI will hit Linux one day . A lot of the toolset for building LLM’s works out of the box. I’ve used Linux for years.
I suspect if AI gets to distros your have 3 sorts of people :
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Privacy aware and dislike the idea entirely
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Those that embrace it but only with open weight open source models.
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Those that use any AI models as long as it’s not too invasive .
I’m probably a solid 1.5
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I would recomend Linux mint, but the main thing, get used to the openscource alternatives for your programs you use now while you are still using windows. By the time you swap to linux, you'll just have to get used to things like using "sudo apt install ****", appimages and snaps. Just some things that are different about linux. Also I wouldn't worry too much about trying to use a "gaming" distro. With some elbow grease pretty much any distro can look look and feel the same. All that matters is witch distro starts closest to what you want.
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The only word I understand in that sentence, in this context, is "pervasive." And given how Windows has really heen driving users away from Windows recently, I am doubtful that it will be more pervasive than previous Windows.
Yeah, that sounds exactly like what everybody were looking for in an OS. /s
I've been very happy to be using Linux for the past decade and a half, but never more so than now.
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.”
Since I don't feel the need for ambience nor multi-modal experiences in my OS, considering the implementation of that "modality" I'm afraid that even as a long-time Windows user I'm going to have to switch to another OS that closer aligns to my needs.