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Agentic OS is a buzzword that's meant to imply that the OS is (or has) an AI agent doing useful things for you in the background without you explicitly asking it to do those things (ie an agent working for you). For an agent to be useful, (they say) it has to know and learn everything it can about you, your life, your friends, activities, contacts, work, and so on.
The tradeoff is pretty extreme though. Everything you do on the PC is watched, analyzed, catalogued, and retained by MIcrosoft (and possibly whoever they choose to share the info with, which is likely every government that asks). The features that do this are generically called client-side scanning and Microsoft has a few specific variants you can read about called Copilot Recall, and Copilot Vision.
physical revulsion
We should kill all the big tech CEOs and investors
Look at the positive side, you can cook sausages on your overheating laptop
You mean cooking breakfast on the smoldering corpse of your laptop.
And in the non-Windows world - this could all be implemented on Linux in such a way that you, the end user choose if you want it at all, which models you want (including both local and online ones), and what gets what access. Plus all kinds of customizability. I'm sure someone is already working on this too.
Basically, system wide Clippy that is somehow even more annoying.
As far as I can see MS is planning the agent not to stay in the background as you described but to be an active means to control the operating system and software functions, so that many tasks can be instructed in natural language.
They should call this version of the OS "Doors" then, as it just shows you what doors it wants, and closes it's door in your face if you don't stump up your precious data.