AI isn't isn't remotely on the same level as either of those things.
this post was submitted on 17 May 2026
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Haahaha, yeah they missed it.... Like missing a barn with a shot gun, it's literally still right there with new people coming in all the time to full their pockets with venture cap and delivery nothing of value.
All they had to do was not fuck over the consumer.
They could have put a new icon in to apply unique snapchat style webcam filters in, watch for priority emails and give them to you in rank order, remind you of things owed and files that were sent to you.
They could have give you a smart todo list and quitely built a new product with it that people would use.
Noooo they had capture your screen, store it unencrypted, try to hide/downplay they were doing it, fuck over notepad, fuck over paint.
It was the easiest wave to ride that dozens of other companies are relatively successful at.
I like AI, but I think that Microsoft's approach was all wrong for handling it. Instead, they should have made a completely new Windows built from the ground up to be AI-oriented, and kept Windows 1X as mainline.
Once the AI Windows was fully cooked, Microsoft could have either released it as Windows 20, or give it an entirely new name when the time to start pushing it out to the public has arrived. This would give time for suitable hardware to arrive and to sort out teething issues, along with just having a platform that is free of legacy spaghetti code.