MS is insisting on AI pcs, and saying that mousing and keyboarding will be substituted to chatting to the PC.
I can’t help to wonder how will it work on a company, like the one where I work, where you have 30+ people working in the same room with their PCs. It will be madness if every one started talking instead of typing…
Even when do home-office, and sit in the same table as my wife to work. It would be very anoying if both of us where talking nonstop with our computers…
Microsoft tried to kill the mouse and keyboard with windows 8 as well, it almost killed windows. With any luck this stupid shit will kill windows this time.
MS will continue its split into 2 (or more) lines. Enterprise-grade software that remains somewhat useful vs AI slop served to consumers.
People say a lot of things.
No, it won’t.
Umm, it already is. You’d be surprised how many zoomers don’t know anything but a touch screen.
But nobody’s gonna want to hire a zoomer if all they know how to do is use AI. And I don’t know if zoomers can survive without knowing how to sanity-check AI outputs.
I hate this generation thinking. I am an early gen z. I (and a lot of my peers in a similar age range) have very little in common with people born at a time where touch screens were already the norm, yet we’re considered the same generation and are lumped in together because someone drew a random line.
My sister (almost 10 years younger than me) has never known a world without everyone having smartphones. I remember a time when we didn’t even have internet yet. Yet, apparently, according to the numbers, we’re the same in our relationship to technology and our approach to life.
The size of generations was definitely better suited for a time before the internet.
They are selling the idea of Star Trek computer interfaces. We are not quite there yet. I allways hesitated to call LLMs AI. In this context, they are definitively not AI.
What they have is a locked down computer that is just gonna be a LLM chat prompt.
You will need the interface and software to work in tandem to do anything you can imagine. It’s not gonna be enough to search, check the temperature and prompt micosofts AI.
The future lies in more open operating systems with local and transparent LLM models, bundeled for ease of use.
Based on this; I would not invest in Microsoft.
