Easy way to automatically set settings that are convenient for them and disguise it as AI being AI
this post was submitted on 07 May 2025
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It feels like Microsoft is really going all in on this AI trend. Probably because they are well aware that they missed/were late to every major trend since the 90s (e.g. the Internet, music players, smart phones, gaming consoles,...) and they don't have that much to lose any more with Windows' inferiority becoming more and more apparent. So they are probably going for the high risk, high reward strategy where they will either lose the desktop OS market completely (in the likely case AI turns out to be just a regular hype cycle) or win big by being early (in the unlikely case that AI turns out to be much better than it looks like right now AND having expertise with this will help with better versions of this once they show up).
Couldn’t make a proper settings menu and AI is dumb as rocks….. - + - = - -? Shoot control panel is better than this combo.
Magic creates a need for wizards
just a simple search feature works.
How much would setting the main registry file to read-only break on Windows 11? Someone may be about to attempt the experiment . . .
worse they make windows, more people want to switch off from it and alternative become more popular and thus get better support for stuff.
So maybe one should be all for the ai bullshit they force down their users throats. Maybe they will eventually really break the camel's back.
Because coming up with a UI that doesn't suck is too much work
Just put the search results in under the search bar, bro.
Surely there would be no way scammers or hackers would take advantage of this with some crafty prompts that somehow get feed into the agent...