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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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.