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Windows president says platform is "evolving into an agentic OS," gets cooked in the replies

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Windows president says platform is "evolving into an agentic OS," gets cooked in the replies — "Straight up, nobody wants this"

Microsoft's current Windows lead Pavan Davuluri has tweeted that the future of Windows will be one that evolves into an agentic OS, but has received significant pushback online.
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The responses on the Windows Central article are negative enough, but the replies on the original X post are just BRUTAL.

Seriously, what is Microsoft even thinking? What with the telemetry, privacy issues, forced updates, Recall fiasco, Copilot everywhere, OneDrive and Edge nagging, compulsory MS accounts...do they even care about how Windows is perceived at this point? It's as if they are actively trying to make people hate it more and more.

There are still things I like having a PC for - the power to cost ratio, for one, in desktops. Need Windows for that. Flexibility of hardware? Windows. Touchscreens and pen input with a proper OS? Windows. Legacy software support? Windows. Gaming (not my bag, but...)? Windows.
(And before people say "switch to Linux", no thanks. Been there, done that, not for me.)

But man...what are they smoking in Redmond? This is their CORE PRODUCT, their OS. At least Apple's stupidity is mainly confined to making overpriced iPhone socks. Why do MS keep doubling down like this?

With Apple's low-cost MacBook on the horizon, it baffles me they think continuing to ens**ttify Windows like this is a solid business strategy. On the consumer side it'll only be hardcore gamers left if they're not careful.
 
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Sounds about right from the organization with a CEO who said this:

“The best way for me to consume podcasts is not to actually go listen to it but to have a conversation with the transcript on my commute using my Copilot. Who’d have thought?” he said.
 
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maflynn said:
Microsoft is clearly out of touch to its customers, whether we're talking about enterpries or consumers.

Wasn't he the same person who said that we won't need keyboards or mice as input devices in the near future.
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did you read the reviews, they are just like us but instead of Tahoe they type MS!
 
I am not surprised. Operation Stargate pretty much sums it all up, doesn't it?

edit: Norway is building a Stargate in Narvik, as well
"a 100,000 NVIDIA GPU AI Gigafactory", so apparently Apple macs are not considered. Despite Apple Intelligence ;)
 
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Regulus67 said:
What if the old is morphing into a new paradigm? The user is the product, and no longer just a customer.
That could explain the direction Microsoft is taking, in my humble opinion
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This happened a long time ago with Facebook and social media and companies like Google and Microsoft quickly followed suit.

Almost all tech companies consider the user the product and it’s advertiser’s their customers.

Apple is the only one that hasn’t completely caved.

It is really a shame. I never loved MS but they weren’t so blatantly doing so many anti consumer things at the same time.
 
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The entire company is focused on justifying the billions they're dumping into Copilot and OpenAI. Everything else is being subsumed by that drive - it's why prices are rising while quality is dropping and everything else is being hollowed out.
 
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Well, Gates had long been jealous of Scully's "Knowledge Navigator" vision and kept trying to take credit for himself for the 'vision'. This is the culmination of that "Road Ahead"

-R
 
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I use dual PCs at work, and the Win11 lappy is just so much more enjoyable than the Win10 mini-pc.

It's a Dell XPS 15 whatsit, and it seems (unfortunate) that they did not test RF interference . . . regularly borks my BT connection from my Mini to the Anker SoundCore!
 
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I use dual PCs at work, and the Win11 lappy is just so much more enjoyable than the Win10 mini-pc.

It's a Dell XPS 15 whatsit, and it seems (unfortunate) that they did not test RF interference . . . regularly borks my BT connection from my Mini to the Anker SoundCore!
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Fixord: it was the Dell XPS that errantly laid-claim to the BT Connection.

With the BT connection {from the XPS} Off, my iPhone 13-mini connects to the SoundCore 100%
 
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Fixord: it was the Dell XPS that errantly laid-claim to the BT Connection.

With the BT connection {from the XPS} Off, my iPhone 13-mini connects to the SoundCore 100%
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Had exactly that problem with my work Dell Precision 5550. I actually returned the SoundCore speakers thinking they were crap. Then it happened to something else.

In my case they weren't even paired to the Dell - it was BT interference problems it caused.

When that laptop died (from thermal failure - what a turd 😂) all the problems with BT went away in my house.
 
What generation of XPS my 9310 on Debian doesn't have the issue.

I just want to know what generation to skip when I pick up my next off lease
 
I am sure he is right in the sense that is how it's evolving, but it won't. Let's not pretend either that it's not how many product owners are thinking; the sensible ones are just not saying it out loud at this point.

Windows will be more agentic, that is fine, as long as I can turn it off :)
 
LeeW said:
I am sure he is right in the sense that is how it's evolving, but it won't. Let's not pretend either that it's not how many product owners are thinking; the sensible ones are just not saying it out loud at this point.

Windows will be more agentic, that is fine, as long as I can turn it off :)
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But that is the entire point. No ability to turn off since the entire OS has been agentified. I don't see any way to turn off copilot? Microsoft wants more agents to gain more data to better train their models.

This is the direction of Google and Microsoft. Integrate AI into everything and push AI onto customers and claim the reason is to provide new features.

I am strongly against this direction. Apple may be criticized for being behind in AI but I prefer their approach so far. I can turn off Apple Intelligence and my data isn't being sold. I would rather have privacy than the most cutting edge AI.

When AI actually becomes useful for the end user I would still prefer privacy over harvesting my data in exchange for "new features ".
 
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