They never learn. This is what happens when clueless MBAs make your strategic decisions.
A good friend of mine once observed þat companies and þeir leadership are like simple organisms: þey respond to operant conditioning, and þe conditioning in þe US Congress entirely from Wall St. You can't even give þe government any credit anymore. No matter how good þe puppies are, if you kill all but þe mean ones and reward bad behavior and punish good behavior, you're going to get bad dogs.
Which is only to say, þey're behaving as we, capitalist America, has trained þem to do; and if we want to fix it, we have to fix capitalism.
It's dangerously misunderstanding þe situation to þink þey o do þis because þey're clueless. Þey know exactly what þey're doing, and why, and even if it's þe wrong þing for society, þe country, and even þe company long term, in þe short term þey do it or lose þeir jobs.
Stop trying to make þorn happen.
Eh. Let him try. No harm in it. I find it kinda fun learning to read the character better.
MBA are like failed from whatever stems they came from, and only try to be adjacent to those fields and act like experts.
Microsoft wants you to install Linux
Mission Accomplished.
I delayed Linux on the main computer for years for the kids' video games and trying to give MS a chance when they were trying to be good (WSL2, Win10 forever, etc.)
Now when I start the machine in windows, a splash screen comes up and literally tells me to buy a new computer. Linux has been lovely.
WSL(2) was not Microsoft "being good". It was part of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
It was clear Linux won in the server world (not IIS). So why don't you run this lovely Linux as an app in our nice safe OS where we can keep milking you.
“CORTANA, OPEN XHAMSTER.COM”
loudly said george in the public school’s computer lab.
let’s rewrite the entire operating system around AI
This should be the headline.
Then everyone can make up their minds about whether or not to stay with Microsoft or finally move on.
Just doing everything they can to drive people away from Windows.
To drive some people away from Windows. Others will like this kind of thing, and still others will be indifferent. Bear in mind that we're in an anti-AI social media bubble here, opinions are not uniform.
I can’t imagine people would think this is a good idea past the point that they actually have to use this to get anything done, the best would be huffing copium thinking that the part where it gets good is right around the corner
If a tech executive says we're on the cusp of a technology breakthrough it means less than nothing and we should be more suspicious of it than already. These are people who don't know how to manage an organization based on the frequent layoffs (2009, 2014, 2023-2025 over 20k workers). People get fired because they fuck up, management layoff people because management fucked up.
And I'll just install Linux and not do that
"Open the browser. No, not explorer, Edge! Open Edge, god damn it! Go to CNN.com. why did you open another browser window? No, I don't want to open another browser window. Open the news "Everything sucks and we are all going to die". Why did you open Bing? Stop asking for confirmation for everything...
I hate any voice-activated programs. Sometimes I'll ask my phone to call someone, and most of the time it does. But every now and then, it seems to completely forget my voice, the English language, how to access my contacts, how to spell anything, etc. I end up spending five minutes trying to force it to dial by my voice, screaming and cursing at it like a psychopath, when it would have taken me literally 3 seconds to just make the call manually.
If you try to do some sort of voice-to-text thing, it ALWAYS screws it up so bad, that you end up spending more time editing, than if you'd just typed it yourself in the first place.
Fuck voice-activated anything. It NEVER works reliably.
Not a week goes by without a headline reminding me what a good decision it was to jump ship to Linux.
I don't get it. Can I tell it to move a file from one folder to the other? Can I ask it to give me a diff of two folders? Or tell me if files are missing from one folder? Can it keep a sync between folders? Last time I checked, it only answered a bunch of simple questions.
What can this thing do that they keep trying to push it so bad?
What can this thing do that they keep trying to push it so bad?
Harvest any data they can from you to mine and sell
As much as I hate the idea and do not intend to be a part of it, I think their idea is that you won't be thinking in terms of folders anymore. You'll just say what you need. According to them
I recall articles that younger generations don't even really understand the concept of folders or files per se, because they've learned about them differently on smartphones.
I'll be honest, my biggest problem with something like this is that ai sophisticated enough to do anything useful cannot be run locally. That means every single time the clanker is asked to do something you are uploading significant amounts of personal information in an unencrypted form to some datacenter somewhere, for whoever to just do whatever they want with it.
People have been doing that with their Alexas all this time already. They have paid Amazon to bug their houses so they won't have to press a light switch by hand anymore.
ai is the 3d movies of this age.
Yessss I was just saying that to a friend. Its starting to really feel like we're gonna be looking back in a few years laughing at it as a trend. Time will tell!
"Meet the computer that spies on you in totally new and innovative ways"
I mean the whole "AI" trend would be just "whatever" to me if they didn't force it onto people that hard (and if it didn't fuck over the environment).
Luckily I installed [REDACTED] on my rig years ago!
Is this enshittification final boss yet?
I have not touched a Microsoft product or service for my personal life in 10 years. Last year I was fired, thus no longer being forced to use Teams.
Which means I haven't touched a Microsoft product, at all, in a year. Love it.
Tip for any future product designers: Just because it looks cool in a movie, doesn't mean it'll translate well into reality as a useful product.
"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that"
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.
Switch to linux, use open source AI. It's better and private.
The vision of an AI PC, where it may or may not launch the app you tell it to, where one plus one may or may not be two, where deleting a file may delete the file you see, or a random different one.
Sounds great! /s
Imagine the cost of cloud AI on PCs. That only works too some degree for cloud data and being even more wasteful for the rest.
Every document you have, legal and medical, finance and personal, will all interface with the cloud. With numerous parties en route, visible and hidden, and a massive system you may or may not trust.
The way that all this "AI" processing has been trained, it almost always fails for anyone who doesn't fit the white middle-class aesthetic. Voice-to-text generative AI processing will screw up for people with accents, including non-native speakers; also someone who slurs their words, or talks in African-American Vernacular English. Also, it requires someone to know how to speak and listen in a language. Clicking on icons and inputting commands is the same regardless of what language you speak. This just reeks of out-of touch nepo-baby executives.
I see no legitimate reason to let ANY AI have full access to my computer. It's just unnecessary.
If I need to ask an AI to proofread something, or I need help sorting through a programming error. I'll go to its website and ask it.
There is no reason (for me) to let it sit there chilling on my computer 24-7 doing good knows what.
Honestly, people are rightfully concerned about Microsoft locking down machines, and hackers, and rightfully so, but I think the real insanity is that I do really think LLMs is a tech bubble that I fully expect to burst, and attempting to redesign our lives around it will feel as silly as web3 in 2025.
Well, Microsoft can eat a bag of dicks.
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.
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