Technology

They've really painted themselves into a corner with their AI investments. It's starting to look like the total addressable market is a small fraction of what they'd need to break even on their atrociously ill-advised investments into the sector, and now they're becoming increasingly desperate to shoehorn a technology that nobody wants into everything they can.

Literally everybody who has an inkling of an idea of what's going on in the AI space knows how this ends, but somehow the board and c-staff at MSFT are not counted amongst the inkling havers. In a few years they're going to have to write off countless billions that they've wasted on this idiocy and nobody will be surprised but them.

i have a simple question... who the fuck asked for this?

I hate how tech companies just constantly want to change everything.

Just give me something usable that I can get shit done with and fuck off. I don't want your changes and updates and new feature.

Remember, they said Windows 10 was the last version you'd need. The last version.

In a country full of people that get a chub at the thought of litigation why hasn't this angle been pursued?

Sorry for being an idiot, but what is an agentic OS?

Whatever it is, it sounds fucking stupid.

The OS doesnt need to be a focus. the OS is best when you completely forget its existence and can just do things without worry.

Which is why Windows 7 is the best operating system microsoft has, and seemingly will, ever produce.

What I see time and time again are people saying "I HAVE TO use Windows at work, but I don't use it at home".

So, logically that means Windows is losing market share to Mac and Linux, right?

Well, no. What I see over the past 20 years is that people just stopped buying PCs for personal use.

At this point, it really feels like if you're over 55, you're in the minority if you own a PC. If you're younger than 30, you're in the minority if you own a PC.

And for 30-55 year olds, it's simple. You grew up with PCs, so you're used to them. Everyone else just sees it as "that thing we use at work"

So, no. People dropping microsoft from their own personal lives doesn't mean they switch to linux. It just means they use their cell phone or tablet to browse the web. Because for most people, thats all a pc is anyways. Just a machine to browse the web on.

Microsoft's Windows chief Pavan Davuluri had earlier hinted at such plans already about how the next evolution of OS will make it capable enough to "semantically understand you" as Windows will get "more ambient, more pervasive, more multi-modal". Using features like Copilot Vision it will be able to "look at your screen" and do more.

Since when did corpos try to reframe the word "pervasive" as something positive?

Backlash is actually losing business, what they are really getting is a lot of whining from people who never do anything anyway.
It was the same with Windows 95, XP, then Vista, then 8 and 10 and now 11.
Very few who are used to Windows will abandon it just because it's becoming a surveillance hellscape of forced updates, advertising and other annoyances.
Microsoft is posting record profits on their way down, just like Intel did 10 years ago.
That said Microsoft is still in a better position, and while Windows may lose relevancy, Microsoft has way more revenue coming from other sources than Intel had without X86.

Unfortunately, most Windows users have a long history of complaining about it and then still continuing to use it.

There's no way around it: if you keep using abusive software, you'll stay in an abusive relationship.

In a few years Microsoft will just release Windows 12, with most of these AI features removed. Maybe they'll do some user friendly tweaks too, but just a few. And most of Windows refugees will come back, praising Microsoft for listening to the community. Meanwhile there'll be even more spyware and even less user control over the OS, but the vast majority will never notice that. That's all it takes.

The best part here is that, when the AI bubble pops, AI will become a dirty word for a while before settling in some, much smaller, feature.

MS is going all gas no brakes on AI and when that bubble pops, their entire ecosystem will be toxic and laughable

I have some aging hardware (approaching 10 year old desktop PC) and I switched to Linux. I have to still use Windows at work but none of my personal computers are Windows anymore.

Microsoft can go kick rocks.

Yup. Got two days off, and I'm going Linux. If i can actually replace windows for what I need, then it looks like i just freed up some space on my nvme.

I can't wait for that whole AI bubble to blow up. Shame it's most likely not gonna kill Microsoft..

This is why I'm glad PCs aren't locked down like phones and there's nothing stopping you from running an alt OS on the desktop yet.

Replaced the last Windows computer in the house with CachyOS this morning. Fuck off Microsoft.

Further comments may have been disabled, but a number of them are still up and are highly entertaining:

https://xcancel.com/pavandavuluri/status/1987942909635854336

I wonder if no one is left at Microsoft that knows enough about the core systems to actually improve those... So the best they can do is throw more shit on top

Can the AI Shit be disabled?

See, now that they've strongarmed everyone into using their new shitty OS and no longer using the old kind of okay one, they can change it however they want and all their users are stuck with it!

(Excuse me while i cackle madly in linux)

Shit like this is why whenever companies say they’re “customer focused” I say they’re full of shit.

No one wants this but M$ has so much investment tied into this that they need to make people want this.

Microsoft [...] gets massive backlash

Pretty much since the release of Windows 10, Microsoft has been getting backlash because of the invasive, hostile and insane decisions they make and force on their users. It's gotten particularly vocal since W11 and the EOL of Windows 10.

Yet, everybody seems to eat the plate of shit MS serves them. They complain, but most people dont seem to want to put in effort to rid themselves of Microsoft.

I could cry.

If only my computer was constantly hooked up to cloud AI watching everything I do! -No one ever.