ambient: we will do things without asking
pervasive: we want to be everywhere in your life
multi-modal: and by everywhere we mean FUCKING EVERYWHERE
multi-modal: and by everywhere we mean FUCKING EVERYWHERE
So, there’s non-zero chance that they’ll resurrect Windows Phone and Cortana?
The thought of relying on Microsoft services for something sends shivers down my spine.
Then I remember there are adults in this world using Outlook to keep their agendas, paying for MSN news, people BOUGHT MEDIA AND SOFTWARE from the built in stores Microsoft created and abandoned. I can’t imagine it.
The thought of relying on Microsoft services for something sends shivers down my spine.
government (including most chillingly, international governments) and hospitals pretty much all use microsoft tools - outlook, sharepoint, etc - to run huge parts of their organisations
that’s the truly scary part
It all means: You’ll eat AI slop and you’ll be fucking pleased about it.
Perfect translation
None of these are things I want in an OS.
Yup, I want “unobtrusive, lightweight, compatible, and secure.” Basically, the best case for an OS is that I don’t notice it.
Windows XP was the greatest OS of all time.
All we’re doing now is wandering away from perfection.
7 > XP
Windows 7 was peak. OpenShell for the win.
Have you heard of Linux Mint?
Best Microsoft OS maybe…
Xp was peak. Fight.
XP was just 98 with lipstick
Yeah. But I loved 98 as well for what it was ha
Good thing he didn’t actually say it would be the next Windows doing any of those things. He didn’t even say it would be the OS:
“I think we will see computing become more ambient, more pervasive, continue to span form factors, and certainly become more multi-modal in the arc of time … I think experience diversity is the next space where we will continue to see voice becoming more important. Fundamentally, the concept that your computer can actually look at your screen and is context aware is going to become an important modality for us going forward.”
The important and scarier part is actually the last sentence, not anything from the article title.
Well put. I confess that my hot take was based on skimming the title of the article, and as you note, their vision is even more dystopian. Fire the pixels onto the screen and forget about them, I say!
MORE pervasive? Everyone is already buried in their phones ffs.
Probably code for more ads
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Depending on what the hell “ambient” means in this context that one might be okay. The other two though, eww.
That’s an insane number of buzzwords in a very short statement.
Also, I don’t want any of what they’re describing. I want my OS to be what allows the programs I use to run, nothing more, nothing less. I don’t want it to try and guess what I’m doing, or look at my screen.
Unfortunately I can just upvote this once.
Wtf kinda language are they speaking? None of those words should be used to describe an operating system.
They are vibe coding on a higher level bro.
Vibe coding must be the easiest job in the world.
Never been happier to be 100% on Linux.
Switch about 6 months ago, so happy to read these articles and shrug at them now. I gotta say it’s weird there’s only like 2.5% of us
Microsoft could literally make “gargle the balls of Bill Gates” a login requirement and the masses would still use Windows.
Well, all tech is heading to fellatio-based authentication. Microsoft is just trying to beat Apple and Google to the market.
the way things are, things have to be completely unusable for the average user to care. people are still on reddit and twitter and facebook after all.
The average user no longer uses a PC at all.
There are lots of us, but we are not the majority. The average user is quite literally doing everything from their phone, and they don’t care about any OS.
but we’re talking about desktop users.
We are talking about operating system adoption.
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Most people just use whatever OS their computer comes with. We need to have more companies producing cheap computers with Linux pre-installed.
I can eject USB drives in Linux! You click the button to unmount it, and it unmounts. This is some crazy technology right here, maybe one day Microsoft will catch up
Microsoft really doing everything in their power to make sure I never buy another Windows PC.
I setup a Windows 11 laptop for a friend yesterday, I cannot believe the amount of ads built into the new user experience which are disguised as installation options.
I had to find the tiny, low contrast skip button to avoid signing up for more cloud storage, a Copilot subscription, and an Office365 subscription before I was even able to see the desktop.
The entire left side of the start bar seens to be a news feed which shows ads, opening an Office app requires closing a Copilot ad unless you disable it (individually for every application), it’s impossible to create a local user account, it looks like the user folder defaults to their cloud storage so just saving things into your document folder will eventually result in scary “You’re almost out of space, buy more here!” ads disguised as system promots, and your bitlocker recovery key is saved in your Microsoft account.
That’s just what I noticed in the first 20 minutes.
I’m so glad I ejected from that dumpster fire of an OS.
Its so much slower on my old win 10 machine at work. Meanwhile my Linux box got faster
And the normies know nothing different and nothing will change. As we get further to to ad hellscape and they find it normal, we will be the only ones screaming that they are insane for having so many ads.
I can only save myself.
I have successfully converted a friend to Linux though. I walked him through an Arch install becacause it’s easier to teach about the boot process when you’re required to manually install everything.
He quickly discovered EndeavourOS, apparently manual Arch installs are not to his taste…
I have a couple friends i want to convert but theyre so impatient and expect everything instant without learning so yeah, not good for linux. I’d guess this describes most humans.
Hey Microsoft, remember when you made the start menu bigger in win 8 and everyone hated it? Good luck changing everything about the UI. I’m sure it’ll be super popular this time.
God I love Linux …
Dear Microsoft.
Your operating system only exists because I have a need to click and type into business things in a quiet office.
Please stop fucking this up.
So they’re shutting down Windows 10 after telling everyone Windows 10 would be the last windows operating system, and at the same time as them doing that they’re telling everybody that Windows 11 won’t last very long either, and they’re going to replace it with an AI nightmare.
Great marketing strategy.
For some reason, corporate just can’t stop itself from slaughtering its own golden cow.
I actually like this strategy, they’re taking hope away from people who think Windows alternates between good versions and bad versions by announcing they’re going to follow up a bad version with another bad version.
Micro$oft doing this has been the best thing for Linux and MacOS
The next version of Debian won’t be more ambient and pervasive. It would be just the same as it is today.
I installed arch recently, and the steam client was pretty easy to install. What really shocked me is that all the stuff that works fine on my steam deck also works fine in arch, so that’s nice
Well makes sense, steamos is arch based right?
to be honest that’s exactly why I’m on arch and not ubuntu or cntos. Ironically it was gpt that helped me get it set up and it would have had a lot more trouble without it, but now that the job is done I don’t want it hanging around in the OS like ‘hey buddy squeaking past ya gettn a beer’
Ahh I saw bazzite and was like, might as well be that one. I don’t know if I have a preference for immutable/atomic setups yet, but so far I’m enjoying it. Kde plasma is awesome, setting up my own key shortcuts is great, audio device management is super cool. Bazzite has a Bazzar for flatpaks built in with a bunch of cool gaming related stuff.
What the fuck? I thought Debian should be stabile? Are they too stupid to get that maybe, people have mounted the wallpaper folder onto another Partition, and now they have to repartition everything?
What are you talking about?
Debian is stable.
Forgot the /s
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Microsoft does the best viral marketing for Linux.
no one wants to sit in their office talking to their computer verbally, its fucking awkward. Its cool on star trek as a means of exposition and plot, but not in real life.
Start fixing the actual architecture issue of Windows. An immutable base system and modular containerised app workflow might be a start, but we already have that in every other operating system
All those offices with open floorplans are just going to be a auditory nightmare, like some call center every single day.
I hope one day my kids will come to me and ask me: “Windows? What is that?”
