Honestly I stopped using the OS because of the ads, it was such a ballsy move to keep spamming me with "use one drive" "try edge" "look at alllll theses aaaappppsssz that yoouuuu can pay for" or even "activate windows" my OS is my home not your billboard ffs
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I stopped because XP
What did XP do? I've never heard someone complain about it
For the main initial one, near 10x the resource use of 95/98/NT/2000, to accomplish apparently nothing more but pointless shiny.
Then when I moved to SuSe, with KDE3, I saw they had even far greater shiny, for near 10x less resource use. Further confirming my leaving Windows and all proprietary. And further making me wonder what the resources were being squandered on. Also, I dont recall the specifics, but there was rumors going around of various spyware in there too, and some compatibility difficulties with some of the software I was using at the time, and no apparent means to work around it.
Also, shortly after, I learned of M$ Window's subliminal messaging system, and one drunken night with a couple of rotters on the outer fringe of our friends network, we messed around with it on a friend's computer (with WinXP), largely thinking it wouldn't be effective. But oh boy was it effective [just one example, as a new Linux user, I put in "get red hat", and days/weeks later, utterly uncharacteristically, he bought a red fedora!]. Really glad I put the brakes on the more foul stuff they wanted to put in the messages. Gets one wondering what messages the corporation put in.
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When a sewer pipe blows up with a fountain of sewage, people are impressed for a few minutes.
When it just leaks and stinks, people are not impressed even for a few minutes.
This is a surprisingly apt analogy
There are things that AI does well and certain features should be available in an operating system. For example the AI features on my Samsung phone I actually really like them I use them all the time.
Especially the highlighting feature for copy and paste absolutely fantastic for my work.
But what Microsoft is doing is just all intrusive AI it's completely unnecessary and nobody wants it.
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What is really impressive, is how people in this day and age of connection, are still able to be so out of touch.
Connect.
Yep. Maybe got suckered in by the AI's positivity-ninnyism about itself and how much people like it.
Testament to the brain atrophy from using such things.
If you're "mindblown" about this then you shouldn't be the CEO of any division of one of the most profitable businesses on the planet.
His mind has to have been blown all along to think this way and be so disconnected.
"Talking fluently". You get completely meaningless answers. Big walls of text without content.
AI is a hindrance, not a helper.
Yup, compelling-deceiver, stochastic-parrot, yes-man, brain-atrophy'er, is not our friend.
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I don't think I know anyone who has been excited for a single microsoft product in the last ~15 years. It's never "wow, that's cool", it's "I wonder how they fucked it up this time".
27 years by my measure.
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It’s time for me to build a new gaming pc. With the current cost and this…(keeping in mind I’m no computerologist) I may just get the Steam Machine.
It will entirely depend on the price.
If it's expensive, odds are you're better off, like, finding or cobbling together a used RTX 3080 deskop or something like that.
Not saying that that's a bad idea, but you could also just install Linux. Bazzite is similar to Steam OS and was a breeze to install. Pop is might be easier to get into if you also use your computer for other stuff than gaming, and was also easy to install.
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The public's expectations differ from those of professionals. Microsoft seems to be ignoring this fact. By now, there should be two distinct product lines. This is already the case with server architecture. However, it appears that Microsoft's strategy is to alienate its customers and make them hate every update.
Oh no, don't mistake it, professionals hate this shit too. Every goddamn 'update' we have to write another GPO to disable fresh hell
Well, according to Microsoft, your AI agent should be... err, neutering AI agents for you?
And once again, Ed Zitron is proven right about the Business Idiots running everything. Jesus fuck these MBAbros are so fucking stupid.
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It is interesting to see his reaction to reality. He finds out that people think he's peddling bullshit, and instead of asking why they think that, he dismisses them as irrational... That's one way to run a company, but only if your company has a monopoly and customers can't run away even if they want to.
Textbook narcissism. Yup.
His comparison to snake on his Nokia is actually good because in its current state AI is like a little gimmick for many users. Sure there are use cases but it can't reliably perform any truly critical tasks because it makes terrible mistakes.
Imagine Nokia shoving snake in customers faces as it is being done with AI. Every phone marketed as OPTIMIZED FOR SNAKE. A big snake button on the phone as a shortcut to open it. Snake integrated everywhere. Trying to send a text? Would you like to play a round of snake first?
That's what AI currently feels like.
have you heard of THE WORM i have installed THE WORM on everything you own THE WORM is great it can do POETRY and ART for you and also EMAILS are you happy about THE WORM ? THE WORM is monitoring your reaction to THE WORM at all times
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"You WILL like my AI. Why don't you like my AI? mmMOOOOMM!!!"
Didn't manufacture enough consent. That's on you
The issue that I have with Microsoft's AI, is that I simply don't trust Microsoft to not serve the interests of the 1% against me.
If I am to use an AI, it is with the expectation of privacy and following my intentions.
This.
Being able to talk to a computer is pretty cool (to me). But I want it to be "my" computer that respects my privacy, acts in my interests and doesn't talk to anybody else.
The sad thing is, if it weren't for the privacy horrors of today's world, a voice activated agentic OS could be a fantastic accessibility aid for visually and cognitively impaired people, for example
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They must think we're more stupid and gullible than we are.
Good sign.