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wow.. OS Subcription-Based with AI?

you'll own nothing, and you'll be happy

I'm glad I already moved to Linux for 2 years

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[–] Honytawk@feddit.nl 2 points 20 minutes ago

Why is this sub spreading AI slop?

The entire article is based on rumors, clickbait and hallucinations.

[–] bmebenji@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 hours ago

“Fully modular” reads to me as “1 step away from returning to the terminal-mainframe” business model.

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 6 points 12 hours ago

Is it April 1 already?

[–] dhruv3006@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago

April Fools?

[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 40 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

For all the people on here quick to mock others for being gullible enough to fall for AI-generated slop, this is embarrassing.

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/no-an-ai-focused-windows-12-is-not-coming-this-year-false-report-gets-the-facts-completely-wrong

[–] rodneylives@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

It's not the users that are being gullible as much as "tech4gamers.com" that published the story and the news sites that copied them. They deserve the ire here.

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 hours ago

This. If you are a "news" outlet it is your literal only job to make sure the information you report is factual.

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 points 15 hours ago

Yeah I initially saw the OP's article shared on Mastodon by some generally reliable individuals and honestly my BS sensors went wild. The described roadmap by the sources from Windows Central makes a lot more sense for Microsoft given the current environment. Its the exact same thing they did around this time in Windows 10s lifecycle, squash some bugs and quietly reduce the stuff that users generally did not like and weren't being used (such as Cortana, remember that?)

[–] clif@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago

Heh, this line cracked me up :

In fact, I understand that the Windows roadmap for 2026 is all about fixing Windows 11

Also, thank you for your service.

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[–] saltnotsugar@lemmy.world 24 points 23 hours ago
[–] Frenchgeek@lemmy.ml 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"Fully modular" as 'It can run on a toaster" or as "For access to the file manager, subscribe to premium"?

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Fully modular as in it runs in a VM in the cloud that you pay them for access to

[–] Worstdriver@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (9 children)

Absofuckinglutely not.

And I say this as a dedicated Windows user who spent a year on Ubuntu Linux a decade ago and hated it. Windows does this, and sign me up for penguin lessons.

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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Not doing a subscription based OS.

Just throwing that out there.

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 1 points 15 hours ago

We already have that with Apple. Your subscription is buying the hardware. But for a company that makes just the surface (which is admittedly nice but seems to have forgotten what it was for) no, nobody is doing that.

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[–] Loce@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

Hahahahaha, get fucked Microslop

[–] Ghostie@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)
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[–] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I know the Epstein files revealed that all the last Windows versions have been named after Microsoft leaderships' preferred rape victim ages but I still don't think I'm ready to switch to Linux.

[–] Hacksaw@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] pseud@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 day ago

Confused Windows Millennium Edition noises

[–] Malfeasant@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

Thinking back to Windows 3.1, I just threw up in my mouth a little.

[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 7 points 23 hours ago

Fun thing:

My laptop (from 2020) somehow skipped last year's update and only recently decided to update to the most recent Windows 11 release. And my first thought was "oh shit, is it going to install that Recall nonsense?" ...good news: not only is Recall not installed by default but the laptop is officially too shitty to run Recall. (...it's perfectly adequate for running everything else though!)

Which got me thinking:

Remember how mad everyone was when Windows 11 came out, requiring TPM 2.0, and how people were asked to buy new hardware?

Gee golly gosh, I hope Microsoft isn't seriously going to say "yeah, you're going to need to buy a new computer - so you can utilise all these awesome new AI features, you see." Because people just love buying new hardware. Again. In this economy.

[–] schema@lemmy.world 43 points 1 day ago (4 children)

So when they said "windows 10 will be the last windows", they were kinda right. Just not the way the imagined...

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[–] resume7512@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Finally the year of linux desktop!

[–] Maguz@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] parlaptie@feddit.org 92 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Excellent. Finally the cycle of alternating good and bad versions of Windows will be broken. It'll just be bad versions from here on out.

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[–] LordTal@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hey people are already leaving the OS for Linux, theres no need to advertise for Linux even more.

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[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 201 points 1 day ago (21 children)

Subscription-based. AI-focused.

Lol. No thanks.

[–] M137@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Just it being Windows, no matter those things, should be enough for everyone to go "Lol. No thanks." But sadly that isn't and won't be the case. Hundreds of millions of people will just go along with it, even the idea of something else existing will never occur for them and Microsoft knows this. All the hate and outrage about how evil they are and how Windows has gone to (from like Windows 95) absolute shit has only made a very small portion of their possible userbase switch to or even ignited the idea of finding out about something else. I think the only way Microsoft will loose enough "customers" is if it just dies, nothing else will make the average person lift a single finger or have a neuron activate for making the leap.

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[–] Cekan14@lemmy.org 32 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Windows 12? Well, I'm using Debian 13. 13 is a bigger number than 12; therefore, Debian is better than Windows.

[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Wtf is a “fully-modular” OS

[–] GEEXiES@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Want the clock? That'd be $2 a month. A calculator? $5.

Honestly, no idea.

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[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I don't know if anyone else saw this, but apparently Windows Insider reports that this is all speculation, and that MSoft had committed to rolling back AI features, and Windows 12 has been postponed until 11 is fixed.

Meanwhile, 26H2, set to release later this year is reported to have CoPilot integrated into file explorer. Not really sure who to believe, but with MSlop's behavior lately, I'm leaning toward being more disappointed than I initially expect.

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[–] thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world 5 points 23 hours ago

God fucking dammit. I just know I'll have to use that shit at work too.

continuing to up the hardware requirements and pricing people out of the market to satisfy features nobody cares about. brilliant strategy.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Businesses will buy this.

Hell, they'll love it. Decision makers will jump on an "AI OS" faster than you can blink.

Some say businesses don't like extra costs, but that's not been my experience when it comes to Microsoft products and other software subscriptions.


...And that's what MS wants.

They couldn't care less about home users. They don't make them any money, not in the short term. MS wants business buyers sucked in, yesterday.

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[–] ArgentRaven@lemmy.world 98 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Finally, an OS for me! My biggest complaint since the days of Windows 95 has been the lack of being able to add new features. I didn't really care what they are, but I just like the process of subscribing to additional features until I can max them all out.

And secondly, my next biggest gripe has been how hard it is to find AI. It's never at my fingertips. Now that it'll be integrated into the OS itself, I can finally use AI for everything! And if I can buy new hardware annually to allow me to resubscribe to all the latest features, while telling AI my shipping habits, I think it'll be perfect!

I can't wait to give Bill Gates money for this! I know he'll spend it on a good cause. Maybe two young Russian good causes! He's such a cool guy and not at all a billionaire creepo, thank goodness!

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