Fuck AI

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.

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.

Microsoft forgetting why we use Windows is hilarious. I might just go back to 10.

Hahahahaha, get fucked Microslop

Fascinating case study on how a company grows to a certain level and then rots from the inside.

I'm sure there are genius level marketing and finance dudes at Microsoft who can show how these changes look great on a spreadsheet. And I'm sure it works out for the next quarter or two or ten.

Who knows though, maybe the consumer PC os selling businesses is dead. And selling consumer software licenses is dead. And the only way to get any revenue out of consumers these days is to sell their eyeballs to advertisers.

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.

LOL. No one is going to buy that crap. Linux is going to keep going up in popularity.

I feel like america and many leading tech companies are evil.

It is a tough proposition without clarity on what happens to your data/log-in if your subscription expires. I'm sure this will be blessed as legal, but a line, subject to TOU shift, between subscription and ransomware is not one you should volunteer submission to.

Microsoft’s Copilot, the AI assistant the company has been aggressively injecting across the ecosystem, will now be a core part of the next Windows iteration rather than a supplementary feature.

Clippy 2's team HAS to have some serious Epstein level dirt on Satya Nadella, it makes no sense to see how reviled this shit was in 11 and double down on it.

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I use cachyOs   KDE ,works great

This feels like an LLM summary of the PCWorld article it uses as its sole reference.

Holy crap, they broke the pattern and doubled down on a shit idea that makes an OS underperform instead of listening to the consumer backlash. Windows is dead.

I'm also happy I switched to Linux 2 yrs ago. Thanks Microslop

Finally the year of linux desktop!

I don't know if anyone else saw this, but apparently Windows Insider reports that this is all speculation, and that MSoft had committed to rolling back AI features, and Windows 12 has been postponed until 11 is fixed.

Meanwhile, 26H2, set to release later this year is reported to have CoPilot integrated into file explorer. Not really sure who to believe, but with MSlop's behavior lately, I'm leaning toward being more disappointed than I initially expect.

Fun thing:

My laptop (from 2020) somehow skipped last year's update and only recently decided to update to the most recent Windows 11 release. And my first thought was "oh shit, is it going to install that Recall nonsense?" ...good news: not only is Recall not installed by default but the laptop is officially too shitty to run Recall. (...it's perfectly adequate for running everything else though!)

Which got me thinking:

Remember how mad everyone was when Windows 11 came out, requiring TPM 2.0, and how people were asked to buy new hardware?

Gee golly gosh, I hope Microsoft isn't seriously going to say "yeah, you're going to need to buy a new computer - so you can utilise all these awesome new AI features, you see." Because people just love buying new hardware. Again. In this economy.

This might be the trigger to move my parents computer to Linux too. They aren't technical, but damn sure don't want to pay for an os subscription.

Boy they can't read rooms

All I really want from windows is to run my programs. Maybe find a file, if I need it. Hopefully I can get just that component.

Wtf is a “fully-modular” OS

“Modular”

Fucking unbundling. Pay extra for gaming or something.

🤮🤮🤮🤮

I know the Epstein files revealed that all the last Windows versions have been named after Microsoft leaderships' preferred rape victim ages but I still don't think I'm ready to switch to Linux.