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None of these are things I want in an OS.

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

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.

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.

Microsoft really doing everything in their power to make sure I never buy another Windows PC.

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.

Microsoft does the best viral marketing for 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.

God I love Linux ...

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.

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

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.

It's funny cause "ambient, pervasive, multi-modal" are all words used when envisioning the future applications of AI, so you know some marketing smuck glanced over the literature (or probably asked an AI to do so for him) and chose them with little care as to how the new Windows will embody these qualities. I am so tired of salesmen,marketing,word salads and entrepreneurship.

"10 will be the last OS"

"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. 👍"

I hope one day my kids will come to me and ask me: “Windows? What is that?”

So: an even more disempowering user experience.

Sounds like shit to me.

More gluant, juxtaposing and hereditary.

I too can just string adjectives together.

voice as input? lol, can you imagine a busy office with workers all talking at the same time? this is stupid. MS is stupid. I'll stick to Linux thanks.

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."

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?

In the interview, Davuluri is asked how AI is going to change the way we interact with computers. Here's what he had to say on the matter:

"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."

Watch out Satya Nadella, this guy's coming for your job as Head of Corporate Bullshit.

"We listened very carefully to everything our customers wanted, and then we cranked out this impossible to use fucking piece of shit" - The Onion (for Sony, but it applies here)

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."

Ah, so now having my computer spy on me is a feature, gotcha

pervasive

What? Why would anyone want this?

What the fuck does ambient even mean in the context of an operating system? Is it going to be floating around in the atmosphere of my flat? Is the next version of windows gaseous? Is it sarin gas?

Because we all told Microsoft we desire software that fits these adjectives.

Just rename it to Copilot 12 or something, it’s way too confusing having a product not branded as copilot.

I think a lot of people are going to struggle getting their head around the idea of voice being a reliable, primary input method when using a PC, but with agentic AI and the ability for the OS to understand user intent and natural language, it's going to feel a lot more natural than you might think.

You're damn right we're going to struggle. I won't believe it is reliable enough to be anything but infuriating until I see it.

Yup. Off to Linux I go.