Microsoft’s AI chatbot will ‘recall’ everything you do on its new PCs | The Guardian

werefreeatlast , 1 month ago

https://imgflip.com/i/8qt5fe

NoneYa , 1 month ago

I kept wondering what would keep me from updating to newer versions of Windows.

Yeahhhh…this is it. This and the inevitable forced Microsoft accounts that will come with this.

The Microsoft of the past was evil, but at least you could pay for an upgrade to the enterprise version that didn’t include this bullshit, but even the enterprise versions suffer from this stuff too!

Speculater , 1 month ago

I just reinstalled Windows 11 and holy shit was it hard to setup without a Microsoft account. Like they even use a fake boot up screen weeks later to "finish the install" to trick you into making an account. This can be deactivated, but it is still super shady.

wax , 1 month ago

Holy shit that's annoying. Say I installed Win11 for my elderly parents. They'd get this sign-up screen after I would have thought everything was setup and ready to use.

Glad I installed elementary OS for them a few years ago, it's been completely painless (they are used to apple-UX)

Speculater , 1 month ago

Yup, I know what I'm doing, but someone else might have just assumed it was required. I was up and running for a week before a reboot sent me to the smiling windows install screen.

I found it's a pretty simple "don't ask to finish installing" switch in the settings, but escaping the install screen was the hard part. I think I had to do a hard power down and force safe mode to access the settings again.

privsecfoss , 1 month ago

Nice. Upgraded a Thinkpad, installed Linux Mint and gave it to my dad. I have not heard anything from him about it for a couple of months. Was reminded of it with your post.

So wrote him right now and asked how it was going, and he replied that he loved it and uses it every day.

And that he had not had any problems he could not solve on his own. He's 70 and a windows only heavy user - until now 🙂

As you said. Compelety painless.

Codilingus , 1 month ago

Check out Windows Xlite's windows 11 .iso's. Post install almost feels like a fresh Win7 install.

Emmie , 1 month ago

Is there a single person who is like “wow I love it”?

AtariDump , 1 month ago

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/5d4bcaf0-7269-4910-a5fe-46c4abacede7.gif

RizzRustbolt , 1 month ago

There go all the government installs.

BaroqueInMind , 1 month ago

So this is simply a WEC but in someone else's server.

0x2d , 1 month ago

🐧

trustnoone , 1 month ago

Ew

eran_morad , 1 month ago

Yeah, fuck that.

autotldr Bot , 1 month ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

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The software giant on Monday revealed an upgraded version of Copilot, its AI assistant, as it confronts heightened competition from big tech rivals in pitching generative AI technology that can compose documents, make images and serve as a lifelike personal assistant at work or home.

The new features will include Windows Recall, enabling the AI assistant to “access virtually what you have seen or done on your PC in a way that feels like having photographic memory”.

Google rolled out a retooled search engine that periodically puts AI-generated summaries over website links at the top of the results page; while also showing off a still-in-development AI assistant Astra that will be able to “see” and converse about things shown through a smartphone’s camera lens.

ChatGPT-maker OpenAI unveiled a new version of its chatbot last week, demonstrating an AI voice assistant with human characteristics that can banter about what someone’s wearing and even attempt to assess a person’s emotions.

Though Microsoft has invested billions in OpenAI, the startup also rolled out a new desktop version of ChatGPT designed for Apple’s Mac computers.

The Apple CEO Tim Cook signaled at the company’s annual shareholder meeting in February that it has been making big investments in generative AI.

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