* Posts by pseudosphere

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

pseudosphere

Re: I'm surprised no one has yet suggested

You beat me to it :)

Resurrect Microsoft BOB but this time do it properly and Make Skeuomorphism Great Again!

http://toastytech.com/guis/bob.html

Rover and his assorted friends are now rather long in the tooth, plus today's Windows users don't (usually) require as much hand-holding, as assumed in 1995.

The new default assistant will be a cat, who appears to be asleep for much of the day but is aware of all your computing activity, on any networked platform; ready to offer help if you look like you could use it but can be also be woken up by wiggling the mouse cursor in its vicinity.

If you happen to be writing code, Kitty might well wake up, stretch, wander over for a closer look and engage in conversation if it's particularly interested, or perhaps it just fancies being stroked? It will be a somewhat autonomous/independent AI, as befits a feline embodiment having a marked tendency to develop highly efficient operating systems and applications, that are free of both errors and bloat, in its spare time.