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.
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Can't wait for Windows min requirements to be an RTX 5090
Good thing my next computer will be a Linux system. :-)
I've always wanted my OS to be ambient. Whenever I boot SuSE, I'm thinking, "what this needs is to be more ambient". I'm glad that someone is finally doing something about it.
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.
I hope one day my kids will come to me and ask me: “Windows? What is that?”
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
It all means: You'll eat AI slop and you'll be fucking pleased about it.
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
Perfect translation
Wtf kinda language are they speaking? None of those words should be used to describe an operating system.
Never been happier to be 100% on Linux.
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
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.
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Compute will become pervasive, as in Windows experiences are going to use a combination of capabilities that are local and that are in the cloud.
...what does Davuluri think "pervasive" means?
Apparently "invasive but like, when it's a good thing".
You get to mine crypto for microsoft?
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.
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.
For some reason, corporate just can't stop itself from slaughtering its own golden cow.
"hey guys, you have complained about our latest software, and we heard you. Our next release will literally rip out your genitals and you definitely can't hide from it. 👍"
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God I love Linux ...
Eww
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.
pervasive
What? Why would anyone want this?
That was my first thought, like what the fuck, I don't want my OS creeping on all my shit.
It won't matter, they will serve slop and most people will happily eat it.
A lack of even basic technology literacy hurts everyone so much. Most people have zero clue how their stuff works and zero interest to learn. Its easy to manipulate an ignorant population as we see again and again.
My favorite simple example is "do you shit with the door open? No? OK then privacy does have value--for all involved."
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
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So: an even more disempowering user experience.
Sounds like shit to me.
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More gluant, juxtaposing and hereditary.
I too can just string adjectives together.
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That is a lot of words to say it will be shittier and have more ads...
This guy's got to know pervasive would come off bad. Ambient bad too
Microsoft: the biggest promoter for using Linux. "Our goal is to make Windows and it's apps so extremily repulsive even your grandma wants Linux instead. Because we care."
I would recomend Linux mint, but the main thing, get used to the openscource alternatives for your programs you use now while you are still using windows. By the time you swap to linux, you'll just have to get used to things like using "sudo apt install ****", appimages and snaps. Just some things that are different about linux. Also I wouldn't worry too much about trying to use a "gaming" distro. With some elbow grease pretty much any distro can look look and feel the same. All that matters is witch distro starts closest to what you want.
Most of these are great but I wanna point out some of the ones I don't agree with
- I've found that the elbow grease bit is gonna be a dealbreaker for 90% of Windows users even when they hate windows. I hate it but that's the truth
- Nvidia is much better than it used to be but it's still a PITA unless you use a gaming distro or one that comes with proprietary drivers preinstalled and properly configured (even for someone already very comfortable with linux). This is important if you want Wayland to work correctly or need optimus on laptops. Furthermore, and this is laptop-specific, KDE Plasma is gonna have low FPS on secondary monitors or drain tf out of your battery by defaulting to dedicated graphics if your config is wrong (and it's wrong by default on laptops)
- Switching desktop environments is a massive PITA so choosing the one you like first time is important.
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