* Posts by AdB3

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Win a slice of XP cheese if you tell us where Microsoft should put Copilot next

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The bastard of a ménage à trois

Copilot digs up Cortana, nurses her back to life, followed by Nightingale syndrome.

This inevitably leads to a couple week long freak-off...

Somewhere along the way they start using a Rabbit R1 in unspeakable, yet very intimate, acts. (use your imagination)

While the sordid details cause quite a media frenzy at the time, ultimately the hype dies off just as fast:

"AI gets a virtual AI", "Cortana waxes poetic... and philosophic, but can't spell raspberry", "Master Chief decides to go analog", etc.

And we all move on with our lives...

However, 9 months later the bastard spawn of this unholy trinity rears it ugly little head!!!

It lives neither in the cloud or dedicated hardware, nor the device you're reading this on, but strangely requires all 3

A blind man can scrape the web better than the software developer's god, every device wants to talk to you even if it's not 'smart', and the alien hordes bearing down on earth don't stand a chance!

But sadly it still can't spell raspberry!!?

The rise and fall of the standard user interface

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Did Star Trek IV know...?

This article evokes a distant memory of the ancient the Star Trek IV movie, (which I re-watched, it's at just about the 1 hour mark) when Scotty sits down in front of a late '80s Macintosh Plus and enters a chemical formula for what we now call optical alumina with the keyboard alone. (Only after saying "computer" repeatedly to the mouse, RIP Cortana, you could have been the future user interface - please just ignore this little quip in any comments)

Point being: the universal user interface! or as el' Reg has now illuminated, CUA

I really wondered if the writers knew as much?

~ AdB3