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Microsoft Debuts New Copilot+ Windows PCs Designed Around AI
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Windows 11 Recall is Not a Privacy Concern
Sitting in the audience as Microsoft unveiled a new Windows 11 feature called Recall, I predicted the reaction we're now seeing.
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Of course they are better. $3500 vs $500. They are probably absolutely superb. But they are for those that have really deep pockets, or are priced for people with some type of expense account or tax deduction. So really, they are useless for the general public. Not a product they could possibly think would become mainstream.
Gross. No thanks. LLMs are neat, image generation is gimmicky, and the work that can be done with photo/video is really cool, but I don't want any portion of Windows OS embedded with AI. If Mac OS (and Apple wasnt as anti-consumer with their hardware as MS is with software) could get along with Nvidia for gaming, I'd drop Windows in a heartbeat.
Wow, and wow...
"My previous signature..." is your answer? Really???
Sorry but that's a no response emoji from me...
No. I have a Windows PC too and CoPilot is disabled completely.
It's because of snide comments like yours that I chose my screen name. Be smarter, otherwise you're not better than chatbot.
Not really, Time Machine is the same thing (more or less) as System Restore in Windows, more or less. Now, Windows 11 has a dedicated Windows 11 Backup App.
Sure, with the knowledge of Time Machine gained for so many years, Apple might be able to create something like CoPilot+ and Recall. The thing is, being primarily a hardware producing company, Apple has a problem of keeping up.
Disclaimer: I use a 2018 15" MBP, an old one in today's "standards", from ~9 to 22 with intervals in between. It is such a good machine, it won't allow me to buy a new M chip MacBook or Mac Mini yet.
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I agree with you wholeheartedly on this. Only, with time moving always forward, a person tends to forget things with age. With old age, recalling something from memory is not that easy, even if one has a trained memory.
I won't be using AI, other than searching for some extra info of certain products/services (for work) usually hidden away by search engines.
I've got so used to Safari, I won't be changing it for a long time, meaning my next computer will be running macOS. 😊👌
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This is computing we are talking about. A computer has no business taking screenshots of your whole life and storing decades worth of memories. The feature they are selling is for recalling some kind of work you did or file you opened in recent history. They appear to believe our brains are too stupid to remember a week ago and that we don't have something called a browser history or a file search or an email inbox for that anyway.
This is just spyware. Intel agencies are always pushing tech firms to normalise this dirty stuff.
You/we can't help it anymore now. You'd have to get rid of your mobile phones, debit/credit cards, your "smart" watches etc if you want to stay away from scrutiny.
Well, the browser history helps. Our own "inbuilt" memory is not enough. There's lot of other important things for our own inbuilt memory keep up with than remembering the "browser history" and such like.
Like I said before, we have to get rid of mobile phones, debit/credit cards, your "smart" watches, personal computers, practically live in wilderness.
I immediately had the same concerns. Imagine what someone hacking your system could do with this information. Quite apart from the consequences of manipulating the data. With AI and the manipulation of this data you can accuse any one of anything and you have no chance of justice, ever again.
Then of course there is the professional industrial espionage that has been going on for decades... Very nice tool for this, the best thing about it is that the user himself finances the calculations of the espionage in performance and watt, very practical.
The wet dream of every dictator.
I use Zorin 17 without the Pro version and for personal use my software runs on Zorin.
Btw I would think as my experience with ARM Windows is that not all applications are programmed for ARM code as it was in the early days of Apple silicon, so we can wait a few years for software to run native as was the case for AS. So the benchmarks are very synthetic and far away from real use.
If I have reprogrammed an old VB6 proggy, I am done with having banned all Microsoft products from my company.
Working on this for Years.
Good timing.
Would you think MS would release Windows that won't run MS Office natively? Or, the major players in the software industry was not ready for the new Windows ARM laptops?
Hmm.
Having worked in various corporations youd be VERY surprised how many people work on documents on their work laptops (the behaviour of working and saving files is no different in habitual behaviour) that many people, almost daily, loose a file and don't recall the file name. Also they don't recall where it was saved or if it had been deleted, moreover they can only estimate the day or time which makes it "fun" to comb to find especially if their MS office suite app has auto save disabled.
This isn't specific to Windows or macos platform either nor if it is on a file share with correct permissions either.
Time Machine offers a much better option for restoring a specific file or folder - version ingredient is built I ot the mach kernel (Unix based). System Restore does NOT in any way do this even on Win11 ~ not sure how someone early thought them to be similar claiming they own a Mac and not knowing this key difference. You can view a specific folder in time machine to do this as well (primary or subfolders) or focus on a specific application for files within.
Actually, most people don't know how to name their files and catalogue them accordingly. One of the reasons why some secretaries get very high salaries.
Computer literacy needs to come back into the spotlight in education. "Digital native" kids have no idea how to use a computer - the problem you mentioned will only become more prominent.
I was responding to "the whole computer industry." If your wife worked in the computer industry, she would have heard these things.
Computers are more mainstream now than they were back in the 90's. Remember the Moore's law limit? That big wall we were supposed to hit in 2010? Y2K? Good lord, we have more fads than dieting.
Just watched Full Keynote: Introducing Copilot+ PCs, 1 hour and 7+ minutes. I thought my next laptop would be an M chip MacBook, but I am not sure any more. MS has not dropped Intel and AMD, but they are joining in with Qualcomm to create Copilot+ PCS, together with Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo and Samsung. A pretty big, powerful team. Competing on sales/market share, but together to achieve the goal.
(I am still using the 2018 15" Intel MBP, for it is a pretty good machine. Only, I'm not sure if any new macOS would be better than Sonoma, or get any better than Sonoma. I've already used Big Sur, Monterey and Ventura on this MBP.)
(I am still using the 2018 15" Intel MBP, for it is a pretty good machine. Only, I'm not sure if any new macOS would be better than Sonoma, or get any better than Sonoma. I've already used Big Sur, Monterey and Ventura on this MBP.)
Go ahead and buy a slower and less secure machine loaded with badly designed software and corporate malware. Nobody is stopping you. Just don't run around complaining about it after you spent your money when people advised you better.
Maybe someone else has a different idea of what a computer should do?
Many people forget what they did just 10 minutes prior. Especially as they get older.
As if corporations like Microsoft need any encouraging?