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A new Copilot key to kick off the year of AI-powered Windows PCs

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Re: A new Copilot key to kick off the year of AI-powered Windows PCs

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Post by naikrovek »

xg15 wrote: post #20
prepend wrote: post #15

I used to use windows a few hours a day. Almost every day I would have to track down a rogue process that pegged my cpu and sometimes disk and would bring other programs to a halt. It was almost always Cortana or index service or disk defender or something Microsoft added with very good intentions. And I would deprioritize it, or tune it, or disable it if it was optional. And every time, Microsoft would turn it back…

> with very good intentions. As if.

> As if.

You may find it difficult to believe, but the people who work at Microsoft are people just like you. They have goals and get caught up in the whims of management, who are also people who get caught up in the whims of various things at various times.

Re: A new Copilot key to kick off the year of AI-powered Windows PCs

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Post by ryanklee »

shdon wrote: post #22

Unless it can be used as a more or less generic modifier key, I don't really see the point of a key dedicated to this one function. The placement on the keyboard in the photo would suggest that either the space bar is shrunk down or one of the keys to its right is removed to accommodate the new key. That doesn't seem optimal to me. Maybe the dedicated context menu key can be removed, which is equally useless as it re…

> I can't for the life of me think of a reason I'd need an AI to do any of the stuff I use my desktop OS for.

If the key can flexibly consume whatever content is in the current context -- images, audio, text, selectable files -- and potentially have access to RAG, it seems to me that the number of potential use cases is very high.

Of course, everything hinges on "flexible" -- if it's mono-modal and doesn't access context in an intuitive way, it'll be tough for it to find a place in people's workflows.

Re: A new Copilot key to kick off the year of AI-powered Windows PCs

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Post by baz00 »

I really wish they would just piss off with this. I have found no actual real world life improvements on the windows ecosystem from the integration of copilot at all. Anything that it has attempted to do actually removed the determinism I had in the existing process or did something to piss me off. It's like having Mr Clippy shoved down your throat constantly and being told it's a good thing without a single use case making sense for me at all. Literally I can't think of an actual use for it and I've tried. It's like pair programming with a chimp.

I'm still bitter that the menu key seems to have disappeared from the keyboards recently.

Re: A new Copilot key to kick off the year of AI-powered Windows PCs

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Post by jacquesm »

naikrovek wrote: post #31
xg15 wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> with very good intentions. As if.

> As if. You may find it difficult to believe, but the people who work at Microsoft are people just like you. They have goals and get caught up in the whims of management, who are also people who get caught up in the whims of various things at various times.

No, sorry. If you work for Microsoft you've lost me. That takes a departure from any kind of ethics. I'm fine with it, people want to get paid. But you do this sort of thing if you don't care about the world of software or where it is headed. This isn't exclusive to Microsoft, but it definitely applies to them.

Re: A new Copilot key to kick off the year of AI-powered Windows PCs

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Post by jacquesm »

Microsoft is just aiming to revive their monopoly but this time through AI. Beware. You think Google is bad? It is. But wait until MS can get their hooks into you with AI products that know just about everything about you and that tattle your every action back to the MotherShip in order to make it that much more sticky.

Re: A new Copilot key to kick off the year of AI-powered Windows PCs

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Post by baz00 »

naikrovek wrote: post #31
xg15 wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> with very good intentions. As if.

> As if. You may find it difficult to believe, but the people who work at Microsoft are people just like you. They have goals and get caught up in the whims of management, who are also people who get caught up in the whims of various things at various times.

I worked at Microsoft. I left because they weren't like me.

Re: A new Copilot key to kick off the year of AI-powered Windows PCs

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Post by tonyedgecombe »

You can imagine how this came about. Nadella issued a decree that every division has to come up with an idea of how to integrate AI into their product. The keyboard people thought they would add another key. I dread to think what the mouse designers are planning.
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