The future of windows an interesting topic of descussion

Hi all.
Firstly returning briefly to the previous patch day, edge showed on one of my systems I currently use with 10 but not the main one so to make it easier I will leave the article unchanged but if you get it yout get it

It is rare for me a tech to wake up and find not only is there nothing really new on the news of interest but also almost nothing of import in his inbox, or in fact anything else.
The biggest news push is the ai in microsoft systems and to be frank this guy perfectly understands the backlash.

Take today for example.
I turn on my windows 10 pc.
Its old and I am close to getting another but I have no real reason to do so bar obvious reasons.
The system starts up with everything I want.
I run windows checks, program checks, and various news and adult content, social media checks as well as email.
It all seemlessly works and I have no issue.
The system starts and does what I want.
Granted today I am not moving files, doing massive updates of my chip resilio content, brousing files or in fact doing much more than basic opps that a normal user would do.
I am logging in with my passwordless local account so I don’t have to do anything.
Firefox is my prefered brouser.
I turn on the system knowing it will just run.
If I want something more complicated then I’ll run it.
On my windows 11 10th gen system the same does happen.
At least for the moment, run things, update things, and log in with my pin word code which is system spaciffic and again runs.
I am unsure about the privacy thing and most of this is hype as far as I care.
However I do think microsoft should pull back for a bit and see what users want.
I have no use of recall or anything like that.
Neither do I need a professional office product or anything and if I did I’d still use mozilla thunderbird as my email module of choice at least for home.
I am not a businessman, just a standard or rather nonstandard disabled access tech tester and system admin.
I don’t use standard functions by any means I just want my system to function.
The issue is that microsoft pushes an ai os of the future.
Ok, take it the utopian approach.
In a perfect world, I’d turn my system on, I’d login with my voice or dna scanner, and the ai would ask me what I wanted.
I’d tell it to run the update check tasks, see what was updated, do those, cleanup, backup and everything else.
I’d check and process my email checking what social feeds had updated followed by the news, brouse my adult feeds, and all while instructing the system to do my coffee, cook my breakfast and then I’d do my work.
The system would respect my privacy naturally because I had set it in its easy to edit configuration program and files understandable and easy for the user to read.
But this isn’t utopia.
Firstly privacy asside.
We know microsoft has a less than reasonable track reccord with bugs from updates to other things.
Lets take the bitlocker encryption and other automated things.
If they were not automated I wander who would take them up.
If it fails you have data issues and can’t get it back.
Multiple bugs, not to mention any updated released will probably break something.
Focusing on an online account is still asking for trouble.
From everything from a nuclear war to global warming to simply someone cutting a wire, if your network goes you go to.
At least I can still power my box and use my external drive to retrieve data if I need.
And then there is the features.
As I mentioned through the day I may indeed need online features, in fact I am sure I will but for the first startup part I am probably not going to need any online anything.
At least not like that.
Becides the first thing any user wants is their system to boot up.
No datasync issues due to something failing online, no other authentication issues due to whatever, thats after.
Most home users at least don’t need the extra business security and if I was in such a company government, top secret military etc I’d certainly leave my home stuff out of my workstation as it is so there wouldn’t be any issue there.
I still believe we do not need to be active online from minute1, maybe minute 5 or minute 10 but not 1.
And we can choose to be up or down.
For me a home user with online contracts, I am online in the true sence for the first 30 to 60 minutes a day then I will go up and down as I need access for various things at will.
I understand from a marketing standpoint obviously but I do think microsoft need to return to their users.
A fully ai controled system?
Ok, maybe in another 20-50 years, maybe things will change but I don’t even have my echo dot linked to anything.
Every so often I update the system but I got it for mucking with rather than actually using.
Now, the new gens like my nefews born 2.5 years back may be the generation that should be targeted going forward.
For me a guy born in the 1980s before the net appeared and certainly for my parents and grandparents before them, I personally could give a flying duck about ai to be honest as I never grew up with it, social media, or even the net.
And at my age I feel I don’t really need to or wish to do more than I need to survive.
Of course if ai does get in my way or I see a real reason to bother using it like my brother and a few of my peers do then I’ll gladly get assimilated.
I am not apposed to ai or the ms future of ai in any meaning at least at face value but with the reputation of microsoft Its an almost certain no from me just because of that alone.
My next thing with ai is we are throwing it about like a toy.
With all the movies about it screwing up, I do wander if we are to eagar to just throw it about and see if it will come back.
We should be carefull and ease into it.
We functioned before ai and if we take it easy we shouldn’t have an issue.
My biggest fear is then what happens when it blows up in our face and the way we are throwing things about its going to do that.
After that, take your basic science fiction movie from the matrix, to the borg, to terminator, slap today’s date on it and there you go.
Then who do you blame?
The ai is a programmed machine no matter what it is its got no soul and even if it does that could be programmed.
Is it its maker?
Maybe but its maker is human.
You’d think with our brains being one of the most advanced systems in known existance, if this organic tech is able to make success as well as mistakes and correcting them and if we make ai to be like us only better what are our chances as both a race and with ai as whatever it ends up to be.
Will it be our masters?
Maybe or will we equalise, maybe.
If its our masters will it be as a god, or will it be the worst bits of our race.
Or could it evolve above that and become something more.
Could we evolve over ourselves.
Maybe we could but this aint utopia.
And while the extreme distopian down and extreme utopia up may not be anything to concidder I suspect we will reach a platto and then normalise or it will fall flat and go like a lot of this stuff does.
Look at covid we are still dealing with it.
Its in the mainstream now and being managed by standard systems.
Its still a problem but its no longer a top alert issue.
Will ai be the same?
Back to microsoft and its future, I personally think its to early to just switch forward.
We probably won’t actuall know the outcome till at least 2100 or 2200 probably meanwhile we still have a load of pre net melenials like myself and those that are still active before the systems came online.
My grandpa, now dead never got into the networks in fact had issues accessing them.
If only touchscreens were about when he existed.
For myself I started in 1993 for schoolwork.
I have progressed, still using a keyboard and such and experimenting with voice systems and ai and yes even using it in a minor manner.
But its not my daily driver, at least not yet.
My brother is for his work as a civil enginier and several friends I have are using it for identification and description of images as am I.
Would I use it for reading my screen?
I don’t know but I have used a keyboard long before I used voice.
Its more than likely I’d continuing using the board till I passed on.
I have one of the latest gaming boards so that means I can type super fast without having to really beat the keys.
The ai system in the board keeps it updated and I can edit and fiddle round with the system easy enough so I guess the board manages itself.
I have not needed anything over basic functions though.
I have coms and printer gear that does the same.
I guess I do use ai of a sort now but don’t think of it.
A lot of things from security etc just do on the fly and are automated so I rarely have to do anything I even trust them enough I don’t need them to tell me what they do as long as they do it.
Granted the only reason they can fail is the physical disruption of the net itself and the city I live in has reasonable connection especially since I am close to a school.
Due to covid and net usage the local line previder has upgraded our systems free of charge to a third of a gegabyte so its reasonably fast for me a standard home user.
Bottem line microsoft should focus on its users as well as the future if it can.
Right now we just need a system that works, no complicated online accounts or services, no extras, no frills.
If we want something x, have us able to access it and control it.
For example I’d like a way to encrypt files and manage things with passwords and do it on the fly with an internal manager and have the ability for multiple cloud locations.
I’d like to login with my google account which loggs on to everything.
Also I’d be happy to have ms and google stuff share things to.
I realise from a business standpoint ms probably wouldn’t want to but for me as a user particularly since google is in just about everything it ssure as heck would make things a load easier to handle.
I’d like to be told about features but not have things automatically hoisted on me like total drive encryption and extra security controls that use ai to moniter what you run.
Not everything is equal and some signature based security can flag lagit programs to and some of our disability stuff can and does make conflict from games to other things.