It seems people don’t really want to hear about an operating system integrating yet more AI into the user experience.
Pavan Davuluri, Microsoft’s president of Windows and devices, posted a tweet promoting a company event and promising that Windows would soon evolve to include even more AI. Davuluri posted that Windows would soon be “agentic,” which is an AI buzzword that basically means it can do some tasks autonomously.
“Windows is evolving into an agentic OS, connecting devices, cloud, and AI to unlock intelligent productivity and secure work anywhere,” he posted on X.
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Whatever Davuluri expected, folks were not thrilled with their operating system becoming “agentic.”
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“Stop this non-sense. No one wants this,” read one reply.
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“Its evolving into a product that’s driving people to Mac and Linux,” read another.
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The replies were largely uniform in their disapproval of the announcement.
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Read another reply from the account @EricLengyel: “Maybe you should pay attention to the unanimously negative replies here and adjust your goals accordingly.”
That seems to about sum it up.
