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I wonder when they start removing being able to make administrator account on regular licences and make you beg the ai for anything that requires elevated rights.

Yes, "control." That's what Microsoft wants you to have over "your" computer.

Please stop! I can only love my Linux machines so much!

What. Could. Go. Wrong.

Microsoft:

Your computer?

No.

Our computer.

That you pay for the hardware for, that you pay regular rent to use in any way, that we use for anything we want, at any time, that must be always online to function.

Innovation.

EDIT:

I've said it before, Windows is going to end up as a Corpo ONLY OS, for orgs and people who cannot escape their vendor lock-in trap.

No sane, moderately knowledgeable/informed person would willingly choose to start with a home or business setup oriented around Windows, unless there truly is something that only works on Windows that they for some reason need and cannot use an alternative.

Their entire business model is complex, opaque cost shifting and 'gradual' enshittification within their rent-based ecosystem lock-in.

GTFO as soon as you can, as a person or business or whatever, this will only keep getting worse.

Yeah, and I'm sure it also wanted middle managers to write COBOL.

I can only imagine the utter chaos this would cause in a cube farm.

But, the only place where talking to your computer at length makes any sense whatsoever is where you're alone in a private office and nobody outside of the office can hear you. Nobody wants to hear other people talking to their computer, and nobody wants other people listening to what they're doing on the computer.

My spouse and I both work from home and keep our office doors open so that the cats can come and go. We have absolutely no interest in hearing each other work. I know couples that share a home office. It's like these fucknut executives at M$ think everyone either lives alone or has a private office in the east wing of their McMansion.

And all of that is ignoring the fact that you shouldn't need AI to interpret what somebody wants a computer to do. Discreet commands for discreet tasks have been a thing for as long as computers have existed and there's no reason for that to change, regardless of the input method. Making commands fuzzy and open to interpretation is not an improvement.

Yes, I do honestly want a computer I can command with my voice. One that understands my needs and the context of the things I say.

However...

• That PC should not be tethered to the cloud. It must be capable of doing all that on its own.
• It should not fold me into some subscription model to some corporate entity.
• It should be open source and under my control, not opaque and subject to the whims of a corporate entity.
• No, it doesn't have to be FOSS. I would pay for it, once. It just needs to be OSS.

Beyond that sounding tedious as fuck, how much will that actually improve workflow? Or is this one of those features that sounds good to people with C level intelligence, and the rest of us just have to pretend we're using.

The hell with that, fuck you MS.

Nah I'm good I don't dig talking to inanimate objects.

Can it be disabled?

Microsoft has no say what happens on my workstation, and never had any.

HOT CILFS IN A 3 MILE RADIUS WANT TO TALK TO YOU

I like Windows. I like AI. But this like is based on me having ownership over them. Microsoft is what has convinced me to move to Linux when an official SteamOS Desktop is released.

"We are on the cusp of the next AI evolution, in which we, the tech company, can simply say the word 'Money' to our AI, and it will automatically transfer money directly from our investors into our wallets. Future versions won't require us to say anything, permitting AIs to write their own next press release for budding, just-around-the-corner technology in an E-mail to investors."

Then it's a good thing it's been a very long time since I last had to care about what Microsoft wants me to do with my computers.

Someone watched Star Trek and took their interfaces a bit too literally