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Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades
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I'm beginning to think this is all a conspiracy to try to kill Windows because Microsoft doesn't want to support a desktop OS anymore.
My theory is that all these CEOs in charge of all these companies that are incorporating AI are being gaslit by the AIs. I mean, has anyone ever met an actually strong minded and intelligent CEO? It's probably really easy.
This is an excuse to build out AI, wreck the consumer electronics market, and sell us all dumb terminals that connect to their AI cloud, so they can monitor and profile everything everyone does (including enterprise)
It's Clippy all over again, but with the AI slop it's now named Drippy.
I've had a similar suspicion actually, but it's also possible they're on some incomprehensible level of incompetence.
Are they loosing money on the OS? I don’t believe for a second that the capitalist company chooses less capital. But, maybe they’ve determined there’s more capital in less market share? What’s your theory, exactly?
But what if it very slightly makes next quarter's numbers go up? Any future cost might be worth that, after all.
Make it infeasible to run Windows on your personal machines by limiting how long you can use the hardware, but conveniently support it as a cloud vm service that is always guaranteed to work with a monthly subscription.
Subscription fees plus the double dip into selling bulk licensing of your thin client to companies who make computers.
To people in the real world, it sure seems like it. I think the people managing the product (middle management on up) live in their corpo bubble so far from reality, they don't feel/hear or have to deal with actual state of things.
Short term profitability over all else seems to be the mantra.