Windows is Dead: Microsoft Adds Mandatory System-Wide Artificial Intelligence Engine “Windows Copilot” to Windows 11, Promising “Helpfulness.” Exactly How Will Your Data be Analyzed?

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[–]In-the-clouds 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Even the name "Co-pilot" reveals that Microsoft customers are no longer the pilots of their own machines, but have been demoted to co-pilot. It looks like Microsoft wants to be co-owner of your machine, equal in authority in its use of the machine.

I use Linux on my main machine and that machine never connects to the internet.

[–]cant_even 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

For all the 'futurology' hype, we're regressing to 1960-levels of impersonal computing.

"Your" data is held hostage to various monthly 'subscription fees'. You run rented software on increasingly 'dumb' hardware, subject to top-down control of "users".