Windows 12 fan fiction shows how Microsoft might ladle AI into the OS A visualization of what Windows 12 – or whatever Microsoft decides to call its upcoming OS – might look like has arrived, and it is expectedly heavy on AI integration. The Windows rumor mill about the next iteration of Microsoft's operating system has been turning and with hardware vendors desperate for customers to buy exotic …
or maybe they did ages ago, and we are only just realising.
"Olden days" - the OS was needed to manage the machines resources most effectively, efficiently and properly.
The future: the OS is merely a shim between the user and the AI cloud.
Looking at cars might help. Gone are the days the driver had to adjust the advance/retard themselves as well as tweaking the fuel/air mixture in flight. Now they just drive.
That being said, you can fuck off if you think I want any sort of AI in my OS. Especially MS AI.
It's possible that AI will actually be good for something. But it looks to me like projections of AI future capability are dramatically in excess of likely actual utility. And my guess is that MS management might well end up forcing Clippy_on mind-altering_drugs on one and all.
Those who haven't long since jumped ship might want to start thinking about an exit strategy from Windows. Hopefully, they won't have to use it. But if they do, it's likely not going to be anywhere near as easy as just buying a bunch of Apple gear or simply downloading some Linux release. Being prepared to bail will probably require some effort. But if one does need to switch OSes, one does not want to do it in a state of panic.
Interesting that you mentioned this because on a typical window there are three icons in the upper right hand corner and they are minimize, resize, and close the window. For a fully square and full screen window like on my Win7 machine then when using the first two I position the mouse over it and press click because I have no other choice. For the last one however, I never do this as I just over generously and quickly and lazily move the mouse in a 45 degree angle upwards and to the right to a point way somewhere past the notional height and right width of the screen by about 20% and since the mouse can't actually be any further than this, then it therefore has to sit on the upper right hand pixel so when I then click the mouse button it does close the window.
I cannot comprehend actually having to position the arrow right on the "X" and then clicking the mouse unless of course the window is not full screen and then obviously you do have to do this to close it.
Problems started for me with the introduction of Vista because the windows were very slightly rounded and doing that same trick I always used to do on a full screen Vista window meant that the upper right corner pixel wasn't part of the slightly rounded window and hence not part of the "X" either and therefore all that happened was that when I clicked as usual then I just successfully de-selected the window as if I was actually clicking on the background which I found a real nuisance.
This must have eventually gotten noticed by Microsoft one way or another because a service pack (probably the first one) notionally included the missing area as if the window was still square and included it as part of the window itself such that my old method of closing the window worked again.
Two things I don't understand and the first is does no one else on the planet close full screen windows like I do? And, secondly, how did Vista go into production without anyone whatsoever at Microsoft not noticing this either?
I remember that animated dog in Win98 (or was it XP?), I also remember saying to people that if MS had spent more time on getting search to work properly instead of that crappy dog things would be a lot better. That dog might have been there to distract us from the POS that searching in Windows was. 20+ years and search on Windows is still crap - not that know or care these days.
I pretty much gave up using Windows after XP, played with Vista and 7 but by that time I was using Linux* nearly all the time.
*Slackware in 1996, Mandrake, Red Hat/Fedora), SUSE with the last good KDE (3.5.??), then Mint from around v7 (Gloria) to now - Mint 21.2 (Victoria). Just noticed the upgrade to 21.3 Virginia is now available.
Buying a laptop with Windows 12 + So Much AI You Didn't Even Want would be an astronomical waste of money. I can't think of a single thing I could even use this integrated AI for. I browse the web. If I want to write something, *I* want to write something, not tell a chatbot to vomit some words. In the year since all the image generators came out, I've never needed to use one, much less wanted to. Blogs that include generated images have already reduced their value to generic stock photos that just happened to be thrown together specifically for that blog and look more pretentious than anything else.
Personally I never felt it was a good idea that infrastructure modern society depends on is the most susceptible to the "we need everything to be revolutionary and new because money" phenomenon. I like stability because I don't like having to worry about catastrophic collapse because some idiot neeeeeeded to push some stupid new feature to look good for his manager.
Yesterday my GF was trying to Teams someone and all she got was screen after screen of "see what's new in Teams" infomercials. She ended up screaming "I'm just wanting to fucking make a call". The day before she was trying to write a document and couldn't without internet access and bellowed "I'm just trying to write a fucking document". She's a C suite and the CTO is a "friend of Linux".
I don't rate highly, MSs chances of survival at her company. INHO, MS your current cloud strategy is shit.
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