Subscription-based. AI-focused.

Lol. No thanks.

Sounds like a huge sack of shit

Excellent. Finally the cycle of alternating good and bad versions of Windows will be broken. It'll just be bad versions from here on out.

Which entry-level Linux distribution do you recommend?

So when they said "windows 10 will be the last windows", they were kinda right. Just not the way the imagined...

Windows 12? Well, I'm using Debian 13. 13 is a bigger number than 12; therefore, Debian is better than Windows.

For all the people on here quick to mock others for being gullible enough to fall for AI-generated slop, this is embarrassing.

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/no-an-ai-focused-windows-12-is-not-coming-this-year-false-report-gets-the-facts-completely-wrong

Let me guess? The AI usage is going to stick its hand in your pocket for usage credits. Remembering that AI is currently massively unprofitable, at some point they're going to try to make money off it. Ironically I don't think they've considered that any supposed savings they make in getting rid of employees will get eaten up in energy and compute costs by AI companies. The business case for this has never made any sense.

Yay! More Linux users!

Microsoft can subscribe to deez nuts.

"Fully modular" as 'It can run on a toaster" or as "For access to the file manager, subscribe to premium"?

just move to Linux

Full functionality is said to require a dedicated NPU with at least 40 TOPS of computing power.

Because hardware is getting cheaper by the day, especially RAM and SSDs, so I should be happy I get to rent a reviled, unwanted, AI-crammed OS from Microslop to put on my not-at-all expensive new machine I have to buy just to run it, that will package all my data up and send it home on the regular, via bandwidth I also pay for, to use it to train their AI for free, along with every other byte of private data they're stealing around the world as fast as they can get their hands on it. But wait, I'm not happy enough! Because then Microslop also gets to sell that same private, personally-generated data along with geolocation and wifi triangulation and every other privacy-obliterating feature they can cram in with it to advertisers for ad targeting wherever I go, as well as to my own hostile government as surveillance should I happen to be brown, not cis-het, and/or suspected of engaging in thoughtcrime. AND there's even a bonus! My subscription fees, as well as my data sold every which way they can flog it to others of the Epstein class, will very likely fund Microslop's direct involvement in genocide, just as it has done in Gaza and elsewhere. Win/win all around!

Yeah, no. Shitty company, shitty product, enshittifying the world one PC at a time. Fuck that.

Hey people are already leaving the OS for Linux, theres no need to advertise for Linux even more.

Subscription based lol. I think linux have enough free tools to support basic office work and retail stuff, so majority of work pc can just switch to linux. Hope m$ get fucked.

Oh MicroSlop doesn’t want to exist anymore? 🤷🏻‍♀️

Not doing a subscription based OS.

Just throwing that out there.

Absofuckinglutely not.

And I say this as a dedicated Windows user who spent a year on Ubuntu Linux a decade ago and hated it. Windows does this, and sign me up for penguin lessons.

These AI features won’t come cheaply, with Windows 12 set to debut a new hardware requirement just as its predecessor did with the TPM 2.0 requirement. This time around, a dedicated NPU would be required, a specialized processor designed to handle AI tasks.

This is so dumb if true. First they force HW upgrades because of TPM 2.0 and now, on the very next product they force yet another one for many due to NPU?

You can see they have long term vision...

Lol so force gamers and home users off the OS and go full b2b is the play? I mean we all saw it coming but that does not bode well for us serfs.

Holy shit. Just fucking stop

But the real question is, will it run the calculator app?

I had not really considered going full-time Linux until now. If they attempt to force that unto me, it will be the end of Microsoft for my household. I've successfully been AT&T free for almost 2 decades. There are a few other companies like that which will never earn another direct dollar from me. Microslop may be next.

This is going to cement their status as the most dominant software company for a decade, or a crash so catastrophic entire economics semesters will be dedicated to its lessons.

Linux is right choice

Even Windows 11 looks better than this shit.

continuing to up the hardware requirements and pricing people out of the market to satisfy features nobody cares about. brilliant strategy.

I’m skeptical about this seeing as there are also articles pointing out that this is fake news.

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/no-an-ai-focused-windows-12-is-not-coming-this-year-false-report-gets-the-facts-completely-wrong

Businesses will buy this.

Hell, they'll love it. Decision makers will jump on an "AI OS" faster than you can blink.

Some say businesses don't like extra costs, but that's not been my experience when it comes to Microsoft products and other software subscriptions.

...And that's what MS wants.

They couldn't care less about home users. They don't make them any money, not in the short term. MS wants business buyers sucked in, yesterday.

Did they accidentally post this a month early for April fools? Cuz… holy hell what a choice.

If anyone is wondering, it’s literally easier to install and use Linux than windows 11 already. I can’t imagine how much worse this will make it.

“Surely they can’t be THAT stupid and double down on this disaster?”

And then I read this 🤣

Hahahahaha, get fucked Microslop