Microsoft has recently announced Windows Copilot, an AI-powered assistant for Windows 11. Windows Copilot sits at the side of Windows 11, and can summarize content you’re viewing in apps, rewrite it, or even explain it. Microsoft is currently testing this internally and promised to release it to testers in June before rolling it out more broadly to Windows 11 users.
Oh my God, they’re bringing back clippy.
That’s a big nope for me.
Internet goes out? I can still do some amount of work, now I need power and internet to both work to do any work at all.
Not a fan of this and I will not embrace it.
No thank you.
Also I bet instead of a one-time license you can have the privilege of paying $9.99 a month forever or lose access to all your files. And possibly requiring an internet connection to use your desktop computer?
Are we doing the nobody reads the article thing here too? This isn’t a replacement for Windows as an operating system, it’s a cloud based version of the OS being sold to consumers. They’re trying to compete with inexpensive Chromebooks, not take away your PC.
As an occasional sys admin, they’ve had stuff like this for enterprise forever, it’s just self hosted. This is about as surprising as the sun coming up, they’ve been moving lots of their enterprise tech to consumer subscriptions.
I don’t really want to switch to Linux, Microsoft, please stop pushing me to. I will, but I’d rather not. Ffs.
Come over, it’s nice here!
I tried it in the past, admittedly a long time ago, and it just wasn’t great for my workflows.
I use Adobe products for the time being because the other available software doesn’t have the features I need quite yet. They’re getting closer year by year and I could see switching being way easier once they get more feature rich. But for right now I still need Windows for my creative programs.
Ah, that’s unfortunate. Doesn’t Adobe still offer their tools on Mac? Not as good as Linux for me, but better than Windows.
Yeah, that’s a more likely option for me. I’m not super keen on how locked down Apple keeps the OS but MS is getting just as bad with Windows Apps and all that nonsense. So my reason for not switching to Mac is basically price of hardware at this point.
I would like to switch to Linux in the future though, not saying no, I just need my creative programs to work there and I’ll be golden. Because everything else I used worked mostly okay (some hiccups but that’ll happen when switching OS’s).
I don’t experience any meaningful issues either using macOS. Some parts are locked down but I don’t have any issues installing apps, running brew utilities, or using third party extensions.
there are ways of running macOS on non-Apple hardware, but it requires a fair bit of tech savvy, and you usually need to build your own machine. not sure how easy it is nowadays, but i ran a macOS desktop on a PC for years without many issues. its all linux for me now, though.
Oh you mean a good old fashioned hackintosh! I’m aware, but every update seemed to be a pain in the ass (experimented with that in the past too, I have about a decade of IT experience). I’d rather just get an official Mac. The hackintosh is a cool project but not something I’d want to make a daily driver. I know some people can make it work and I’m happy for them but I found it to be too fiddly.
For anybody else interested though you can find more info at this link
Made the switch 4 years ago. No regrets.
Of course they want to get as many people as possible to pay a monthly fee to use their cloud system. I’m sure they won’t be going cloud only anytime soon, but they will keep making each new windows version worse than the previous one.
They won’t get a single cent from me. I’ve been running Linux for the last 15 years. Wine, DXVK, and Proton keep getting better and I can run all of my games in Linux now.
Moving “Windows 11 increasingly to the cloud” is identified as a long-term opportunity in Microsoft’s “Modern Life” consumer space, including using “the power of the cloud and client to enable improved AI-powered services and full roaming of people’s digital experience.”
Intel and Microsoft have even hinted at Windows 12 in recent months, and Windows chief Panos Panay claimed at CES earlier this year that “AI is going to reinvent how you do everything on Windows.” All of this is part of Microsoft’s broad Windows ambition, detailed in its internal presentation, “to enable improved AI-powered services” in Windows.
Words cannot express how much I do not want to participate in this version of the future.
What a terrible fucking idea
Might finally convince me to move fully to Linux…
Assuming this is just fancy talk for Remote Desktop to the average user and hosted by MS.
Just another move toward " you will own nothing and you will be happy". Gotta resist the botnet people, Free software anarchy ftw!
The road to (technological) serfdom
I’m kind of confused…if the plan is to move Windows fully to the cloud, why are they talking to chipmakers about enabling more Windows features in future chip releases? Why would you need processing power for the OS if the OS is fully on the cloud?
Client side rendering and stuff? Your youtube video is still rendered locally.
Typical loop in this case:
- Oh, M$ is so disgusting, I never gonna switch to the new platform!
In a few months/years
- Well, my apps/hardware are not working, time to switch anyway. Not because it’s not working anymore, but because the platform is mature and I actually like it.
Or switch to Linux and never look back. I’ve been using it for close to 4 years now and the only time I almost miss Windows is when having to make a PowerPoint presentation. Everything else is better on Linux, including gaming.
As someone who works in cloud services/ops and has to deal with Microsoft partner relations almost daily, good luck with that.
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