Windows 12 - AI Features Require Subscription - Are You Switching?

[ghettosynth]

https://tech4gamers.com/windows-12-repo ... ocused-os/

Well, this could go elsewhere, but, this is a perfect forum to yell about AI, Money, and your Music

1) Reports suggest that Microsoft is gearing up to launch Windows 12 later this year.

2) The new OS will be entirely modular and will be AI-focused.

3) Unfortunately, the upgrade requires NPU processors, which will lock out millions from getting into the new ecosystem.

As Microsoft shifts to an AI-first operating model, the tech giant is now seemingly gearing up to release a new iteration of the Windows OS and spoiler alert: Artificial intelligence will be a core experience of the software.

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.

Why it matters: Even though Windows is the most used OS worldwide, Microsoft is seemingly taking advantage of the situation, forcing AI adoption on users by making it a part of the Windows experience.

[BBFG#]

https://tech4gamers.com/windows-12-repo ... ocused-os/

Well, this could go elsewhere, but, this is a perfect forum to yell about AI, Money, and your Music

1) Reports suggest that Microsoft is gearing up to launch Windows 12 later this year.

2) The new OS will be entirely modular and will be AI-focused.

3) Unfortunately, the upgrade requires NPU processors, which will lock out millions from getting into the new ecosystem.

As Microsoft shifts to an AI-first operating model, the tech giant is now seemingly gearing up to release a new iteration of the Windows OS and spoiler alert: Artificial intelligence will be a core experience of the software.

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.

Why it matters: Even though Windows is the most used OS worldwide, Microsoft is seemingly taking advantage of the situation, forcing AI adoption on users by making it a part of the Windows experience.

Stripping Windows is always my first priority. Shouldn't AI be one of those modules we can remove?

[VariKusBrainZ]

My laptop has an NPU, Copilot was the first thing I removed.
I did try out the Audacity extensions that take advantage of the NPU but it was underwhelming

[AsPeeXXXVIII]

I ditched Windows around the time Win10 went EOL and the decision only seems to get more justified by the week.

[zerocrossing]

An OS is just a tool to me. I literally can’t even imagine a feature that would make an OS AI a more useful tool for how I make music. If they EOL 11 and try and force me to pay for something that I don’t want, I’ll move on to something else.

One of the main reasons I suspect we’re going to see the AI bubble burst, is because they are shoving it down our throats. I don’t remember the birth of the internet being like this. I remember hearing about what was possible and being excited about it.

I’m sure for some people, it’s going to be awesome. Aspects of it are awesome to me, but I’m interested in how it can work to make emulation better. Things like SWAM instruments.

I also see a lot of tech bros who are very excited about the employee free business models of the future, as if employees aren’t consumers. Are they expecting humans to become surfs who only do the work that automation can’t do? I’m all for a Roddenberry style socialist utopia, but for some reason, I don’t see the current AI tech CEOS as being interested in Star Trek, as much as a Mad Max future. Lucky for me, I kept a lot of my 90s cyberpunk clothes, and the famine should make it easy for me to fit back into them for the apocalypse.

[Grizzellda]

Just quietly, and with no great sense of panic, start looking towards Linux, guys.

[agharta]

Windows 12 - AI Features Require Subscription - Are You Switching?

No, just don't subscribe to the optional AI features!
It's a clickbait article anyway.

[BONES]

Did none of you geniuses notice that the article acknowledges that all of the content has been refuted by Windows Central, who would likely know better than PC World. It's clickbait, pure and simple.

Who pays for Windows? Nobody. I think the last time I had to give Microsoft money for my operating system might have been Windows 7, which would have been 16-17 years ago. Yes, I know it's built into the cost of a new PC but that's not the same thing as expecting users to hand over money to Microsoft on a regular basis.

[ghettosynth]

Did none of you geniuses notice that the article acknowledges that all of the content has been refuted by Windows Central, who would likely know better than PC World. It's clickbait, pure and simple.

Who pays for Windows? Nobody. I think the last time I had to give Microsoft money for my operating system might have been Windows 7, which would have been 16-17 years ago. Yes, I know it's built into the cost of a new PC but that's not the same thing as expecting users to hand over money to Microsoft on a regular basis.

No, I didn't notice that at all. After all, I am not a genius.

[BONES]

I was going to give you the benefit of the doubt, thinking maybe it had been added later, but where would the fun have been in that?

[ghettosynth]

I was going to give you the benefit of the doubt, thinking maybe it had been added later, but where would the fun have been in that?

It was added later, but, I'm only here for the fun, so there we are.

[BONES]

Sure it was.

[ghettosynth]

Sure it was.

It looked like this. Not that this is evidence of me graduating from non-genius status as this is timestamped at 5pm.

https://web.archive.org/web/20260304170 ... ocused-os/

For the record, I'm still here for the fun, and knickers twisting on KVR is always fun.

On Edit: It is evidence. I'm feeling those genius genes growing as we speak. It is not Mar 11th here, even though KVR says that it is.

[BONES]

You do realise that I was just yankin' your chain, right?

[ghettosynth]

You do realise that I was just yankin' your chain, right?

What do you think?