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Introducing Copilot+ PCs

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Re: Introducing Copilot+ PCs

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Post by DeathArrow »

People even coined a term for Microsoft-Intel symbiosis: Wintel. Most often Windows meant Intel and Intel meant Windows.

I wonder how this will fare for the future of x86. Maybe Intel will focus on the server market.

Re: Introducing Copilot+ PCs

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Post by resource_waste »

drevil-v2 wrote: post #87

Being the designated "tech" person for my extended family and friends circle, I don't think I could recommend this to any of them because of the privacy nightmare. At least with Apple you have a single vendor who is vertically integrated and makes a huge song and dance about data privacy. Even if you discount their PR and marketing spin, IMHO you are still miles ahead of the likes of Microsoft + (pick one) HP, Asus,…

>At least with Apple

> Even if you discount their PR and marketing spin,

It doesnt seem like you were able to do that.

Re: Introducing Copilot+ PCs

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Post by adastra22 »

CamperBob2 wrote: post #105
jsheard wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the official line from Microsoft would be that most software should be using .NET anyway, and in that case the same binary should Just Work on either architecture. In reality there is still a lot of native software though, so who knows how that will play out. Games in particular will always be native.

If it's like their previous ARM Windows attempt, existing native software won't work in any event because the entire platform is locked down.

Windows 11 ARM isn't locked down at all. I run it on a daily basis.

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Post by lolinder »

drevil-v2 wrote: post #87

Being the designated "tech" person for my extended family and friends circle, I don't think I could recommend this to any of them because of the privacy nightmare. At least with Apple you have a single vendor who is vertically integrated and makes a huge song and dance about data privacy. Even if you discount their PR and marketing spin, IMHO you are still miles ahead of the likes of Microsoft + (pick one) HP, Asus,…

Are they actually collecting new data to enable these features? Or is all of this data collected no matter what version of Windows you have installed?

It seems to me that what you just said is an argument against Windows in general, not against these new features.

Re: Introducing Copilot+ PCs

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Post by rogerthis »

drevil-v2 wrote: post #87

Being the designated "tech" person for my extended family and friends circle, I don't think I could recommend this to any of them because of the privacy nightmare. At least with Apple you have a single vendor who is vertically integrated and makes a huge song and dance about data privacy. Even if you discount their PR and marketing spin, IMHO you are still miles ahead of the likes of Microsoft + (pick one) HP, Asus,…

As it has been said so many times, tech privacy aware people are the minority. It won't make any difference for my non-tech neighbor (in fact, he will probably be delighted if it helps him with something).

Re: Introducing Copilot+ PCs

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Post by semi-extrinsic »

candiddevmike wrote: post #20

Is Microsoft Copilot and GitHub Copilot the same thing?

Nope. They are not even included in the same subscription. At my dayjob we had GitHub Copilot for the developer team for some months before everyone got MS Copilot. I had to spend quite some time explaining to central IT what the difference between these two things are, and do quite some digging into MS documentation to show them that the subscriptions are strictly disjoint.
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