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Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings (www.cnet.com)
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"We set out to solve one of the most common frustrations we hear — finding and changing settings on your PC — using the power of AI agents," Navjot Virk, corporate vice president of Windows Experiences at Microsoft, said in a blog post on Tuesday. "An agent uses on-device AI to understand your intent and with your permission, automate and execute tasks."

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[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 22 points 2 days ago (2 children)

They broke alt tab.

That's how fucking inept they are

[–] stephen01king@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In what way?

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Multiple ways

  • there was an update that meant alt-tab brought you a black screen
  • there was another one that meant it didn't tab between the two most recent windows, but brought up a selection. They tried to tout this as a feature you had to turn off
[–] stephen01king@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So one is a bug, and another is a feature I actually use everyday. Did you mean the selection prevents you from quickly changing between recent windows? I don't remember it actually slowing down my switching at all.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Edit: no, wtf am i doing

The thread was about inept the coders were.

Here is your answer: They were so fucking inept they broke a fundamental function and it made it to production. Then they did it deliberately.

That's how inept they are.

End of.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You brought back an old, old memory of reading a Dave Barry novel about computers. In it, he describes going to a Microsoft convention in which they introduced, IIRC, Windows 95; while describing the taskbar, they apparently touted "no more alt+tab!"

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 3 points 2 days ago

Dear god, those fools never worked with two spreadsheets at once in their life