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'Windows is evolving into an agentic OS' says Windows president in what I can only assume is a bid to make me swap to Linux (www.pcgamer.com)

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Pavan Davuluri, the president of Windows and devices at Microsoft, recently took to X to share their feelings on the future of the OS (as spotted by Tom's Hardware). "Windows is evolving into an agentic OS, connecting devices, cloud, and AI to unlock intelligent productivity and secure work anywhere."

If that phrase reads to you like someone has thrown a dart at a board filled with LinkedIn buzzwords, you're not alone. Effectively, an agentic AI is one that can run autonomously, without the need to check back in on each step of the process.

If you ask a standard non-agentic AI to make you a poem, it can. If you ask that same AI to set up supply chains, adjusting stock and employees in real-time, based on information fed to it, it can't do it .

So, in this sense, Windows as an agentic AI is one that is designed to run automations daily to lighten the productivity load. However, I can't help but wonder who wants that out of their OS?

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[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Awfully nice of Microsoft to just volunteer to be Linux’s marketing team free of charge.

[–] alexei_1917@hexbear.net 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

"Do you not want a Hallucination Machine hooked up to a command line hidden from you, that you have to talk to like it's a person? Would you rather have an "old school" graphical interface, and a terminal that isn't trying to hide its existence? Still want to interact with your computer as a piece of technology? Let me introduce you to the most proudly outdated software in the whole world, Debian! A.K.A., The Universal Operating System! It'll run on anything, and it'll still have outdated packages of the best desktop environments available long after every other OS tries to destroy the desktop paradigm! It may be outdated, but it works and it's stable!"

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You can even say…it Just Works^TM^.

It’s going to be a shame having to say goodbye to many of my beloved games, but congratulations to windows for enshittifying so much they make consoles make sense again.

[–] alexei_1917@hexbear.net 3 points 6 days ago

You can play games on Linux, you know. Multi-player stuff with kernel level anti cheat won't run, but let's be honest, you shouldn't play that crud even on Windows.