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Oh look it's Cortana 2

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.

Honestly, people are rightfully concerned about Microsoft locking down machines, and hackers, and rightfully so, but I think the real insanity is that I do really think LLMs is a tech bubble that I fully expect to burst, and attempting to redesign our lives around it will feel as silly as web3 in 2025.

Nah I'm good I don't dig talking to inanimate objects.

Then it's a good thing it's been a very long time since I last had to care about what Microsoft wants me to do with my computers.

Yeah, and I'm sure it also wanted middle managers to write COBOL.

I don't want a fucking experience I just want a computer that works you stupid capitalist fuckhead.

Well, Microsoft can eat a bag of dicks.

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.

My penguin doesn't listen to what Microsoft wants.

I wonder when they start removing being able to make administrator account on regular licences and make you beg the ai for anything that requires elevated rights.

Someone watched Star Trek and took their interfaces a bit too literally

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.

Yes, "control." That's what Microsoft wants you to have over "your" computer.

"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."

We always knew AI would lead to this one day. But it you ask me that this day is still far away. We‘re not there yet.

Microsoft has no say what happens on my workstation, and never had any.