A senior Microsoft official who is the Windows chief has confirmed that the OS is set to "evolve" in a big way, however, there has been a massive backlash.

Unfortunately for Microsoft and Davuluri, the response has been overwhelmingly negative, so much so that the comments on that X post have now been disabled.

  • pwnicholson@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Save you a click: not surprisingly, they plan to add a ton of AI features that no one asked for (“agentic OS”) tired to the cloud, etc, to the point that it will require new AI-specific hardware to run.

  • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    5 months ago

    I found Linux Mint to be a reasonable upgrade path from Windows 11. I’m 60 years old and figured it out. It plays my games, runs Libreoffice, Jellyfin, Gimp, Inkscape, and Blender, which covers everything I want to do on a PC.

    The only thing it can’t do is drive my cheap autofeed photo scanner (it drives my Epson flatbed just fine) I got to finally digitize my family photos for my kid, so maybe he’ll look at them someday. I have an old laptop running Win10 to do that. Once that project is done in a couple of months, I’ll put Linux Mint on the laptop and get several more years of use out of it, I expect.

  • Frenchgeek@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    5 months ago

    Don’t forget to thank Microsoft for his untiring promotion of Linux as an everyday OS.

  • SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.worldEnglish
    1·
    5 months ago

    The company is working on Model Context Protocol (MCP) for Windows 11 in an effort to help it become the Agentic OS that essentially will turn Windows into an AI OS.

    Here is how Microsoft puts it: “MCP on Windows offers a standardized framework for AI agents to connect with native Windows apps, enabling them to easily participate in agentic interactions on Windows. Windows apps can expose specific functionality to augment the skills and capabilities of agents installed locally on a Windows PC.”

    MCP? Really? Somebody wanted a Tron tie-in…