• Jeremyward@lemmy.world
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      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

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        Microsoft could literally make “gargle the balls of Bill Gates” a login requirement and the masses would still use Windows.

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          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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          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.

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            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.

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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.

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      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

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      That was said by some random Microsoft employee who had no official capacity to say something like that, and the whole thing sounded like they meant to say “latest” anyway. It is and was a worthless statement that got way more attention than it deserved.

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        Luckily I’m in the US where we apparently only care about “the children” before they’re born.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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

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    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.

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      Ugh, not this voice control BS again. It’s like the people who pop up every once in a while asking why there isn’t a “natural English” programming language. It’s because human language is imprecise and full of nuance. To describe something to the precision needed for a computer to take action and actually do the thing you want it to do, you have to be so ridiculously verbose in your description that it would take 10-100x longer than just clicking a button with your mouse or typing a command on the keyboard.

      Have none of these people ever sat behind someone operating a computer and tried to instruct them to do something even moderately complex? About 5 minutes in I’m usually tearing my hear out screaming “JUST LET ME SIT IN THE CHAIR AND DO IT MYSELF!”

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    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.

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      For some reason, corporate just can’t stop itself from slaughtering its own golden cow.

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    More gluant, juxtaposing and hereditary.

    I too can just string adjectives together.

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    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.”