Windows 12 Reportedly Set for Release This Year as a Fully Modular, Subscription-Based, AI-Focused OS

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Windows 12 Reportedly Set for Release This Year as a Fully Modular, Subscription-Based, AI-Focused OS - Lemmy NZ

wow… OS Subcription-Based with AI? you’ll own nothing, and you’ll be happy

But the real question is, will it run the calculator app?
The calculator app is now a link to Copilot. You can ask it in natural language to multiply 2 by 3 and it will tell you “West Dakota”.
oh no, it will work for that. but ask it for 20 × 300 and you will get 5000. just good enough that people without critical thinking skills will find it amazing.

That’s useless. I don’t need AI to get answers like that.

And answers like that made my calculus homework problems get big and ugly.

It will use ““reasoning”” to write a python script that calculates 20x300 and it’ll still get it wrong but it has now wasted an extra 10 cents of compute