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Microsoft may replace the Start button with the Copilot AI in Windows 12 (www.notebookcheck.net)
submitted 1 year ago by Steve0Greatness to c/technology
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[–] twack 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean... Yea. Yea it is. They want to:

  1. Fill the thing with ads
  2. Control the entire user experience
  3. Track everything you do in that experience
  4. Prevent users from accessing any low level system changes
  5. Fill the thing with ads

They're not even being subtle about it:

“The Copilot is like the Start button,” Nadella explains. “It becomes the orchestrator of all your app experiences. So for example, I just go there and express my intent and it either navigates me to an application or it brings the application to the Copilot, so it helps me learn, query and create — and completely changes, I think, the user habits.”

[–] specterspectre 4 points 1 year ago

Yup on 4. Mess at all with the hostfile and Windows Defende won't stop harassing you about a threat. User autonomy is a threat to Windows.