It’s not april fools yet

  • yaroto98@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    9 days ago

    Windows 12 could be released as early as this year and will be a modular OS, meaning users will have the option to add or remove features, aiming to provide more flexibility.

    Does this mean I can remove the AI? /s

  • SuperDuper@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    9 days ago

    It’s honestly impressive how many unattractive “features” they’re apparently packing into this.

    Unfortunately, these are the only bright sides to this new OS. 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.

    11 is bad enough, but it seems like 12 will be infected with copilot at every level of the OS rather than just shoehorned into every single app.

    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.

    Oh, great. Yet another new hardware requirement, this time for unwanted AI, in a marketplace with runaway hardware prices caused by AI. On the plus side, this will make it easier for most people to not switch.

    Some features of Windows 11 might also be locked away behind a subscription model that are expected to be “advanced AI services”, but the core OS will be a one-time purchase only.

    Ok, so not only are you charging money for the OS, you’re also taking away existing features and making people pay a subscription?

    The modular aspect of the OS is Microsoft’s CorePC architecture project that they’ve been working on for years. It will redefine the Windows experience by allowing the addition and removal of components. This will help customise the OS for each build, whether it’s a lighter-weight system, a gaming-prioritized build, etc.

    Can we remove copilot, the subscription model, advertisements, and spyware?

  • picnic@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    8 days ago

    I’ve just deployed bunch of win10-iot devices in an engineering workshop with write protection. Those are supported until 2032 so we’re good.

    Gonna continue running linux at home, tho. In the office, because of autodesk, we’re gonna have to have something windows.

    Fuck autodesk

  • Chulk@lemmy.mlEnglish
    5·
    9 days ago

    So this is my understanding:

    • Microsoft is moving to a subscription model OS
    • new tpm requirement
    • hardware is sold out and/or 3x more expensive because of Sam Altman
    • Microsoft is leaning into thin clients

    I see people celebrating this “stupid decision” by Microsoft and saying that it’s the year of the Linux desktop. Honestly, I’d love that outcome.

    But what if Microsoft is willing to destroy Windows right before the AI bubble pops, shift the entire industry away from consumer parts, get people to throw all their old devices in a landfill, and then recoup their losses when Trump inevitably bails out the industry?

    I always think about how Obama’s Cash for Clunkers got people to trade in their old, reliable cars for arguably shittier new cars with built-in Surveillance capabilities and planned obsolescence. It ended up ruining the used car market too. I wonder if we will see something like that for AI. “Trade in your pc for a free year of windows 12 and a new pc (thin client) to run it”

    • MoogleMaestro@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      9 days ago

      To be fair to Cash for Clunkers, the intent was to get people on better gas efficiency cars, not to downgrade people to worse cars. California policy is the one that mandated cameras on newer cars, but also to be fair there it does reduce incidents of crashing during reverse.

      I think Microsoft shouldn’t really be making plans around windows based on the state of the government today and should be concerned with how it changes just 6 months from now.

      • Chulk@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        9 days ago

        To be fair to Cash for Clunkers, the intent was to get people on better gas efficiency cars, not to downgrade people to worse cars.

        I was a supporter of the program at the time and agreed with that intent. However, In retrospect it was more of a handout to the auto industry. And whether intended or not, it hurt the used car market and got people to abandon very reliable (and more importantly, easily self repairable) cars that were built in the 90s.

        2008 was right around the time when automakers started adding more tech to cars. So that’s where my suspicions about surveilance comes in. In fact, an infamous vulnerability, which can be used to uniquely identify vehicles, was introduced into most US vehicles made after 2008.

  • CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    9 days ago

    This headline describes the disastrous state of Microslop perfectly. It gets worse with every written word.

  • Korkki@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
    3·
    9 days ago

    I think they know that they have a shitty product that nobody asked and everybody hates, but they also know that corporations and institutions have their workflows and custom software stacks built on top of windows and therefore them and their workers are not very easily going to jump ship. Only thing they need to make sure of that they don’t break 40 years of backwards compatibility. Understanding that, why the fuck not just milk people? If it backfires, then it backfires, but even then Microsoft makes more money on Office 365 alone than they do from Windows.

  • MoogleMaestro@lemmy.zipEnglish
    3·
    9 days ago

    Not sure how they could be confident in the idea of selling hardware to users right now, considering even the cost of thin clients is stupidly high.

    Maybe there’s something I’m missing here.