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Yeah, the taskbar changes remain most upsetting to me. I've used a right hand task bar since Windows XP, so it's constant, weird upset every time I'm on a Windo

Yeah, the taskbar changes remain most upsetting to me. I've used a right hand task bar since Windows XP, so it's constant, weird upset every time I'm on a Windows 11 machine and can't put it back "where it is supposed to be". It is alleged that one of the reasons to lock the taskbar to the bottom was to make it feel more like the Mac OS X Dock, but the Dock has allowed you to move it to either of the sides (but not the top, I don't think? Because of the weird old Menu bar?) for a long time. If Microsoft is trying to badly copy cat the Mac, I'm half wondering if it is time to invest in a "real" Mac. > AI? I subscribe to ChatGPT and use it frequently. But I want it to stay in it's own sandbox, not be spread all over the OS. Unless they make some extremely innovative and useful app for it, keep it there; I don't want the hit it'll take on the CPU, memory, or my attention. I'm something of a skeptic about AI, but the upcoming AI changes in Windows 11 don't currently scare me. Windows Copilot is just the new, more boring name for Cortana. Same keyboard shortcut. Same button location. Newer, uglier icon. Many of the old features, plus some new LLM features. Way less of it runs on your physical hardware than Cortana did (Microsoft can't ship a full LLM model with Windows, that would be a massive number of GBs that people would yell about if they tried), so most of the "hit" on CPU/memory is in the "Cloud". I can't speak to how much hit it'll take on your attention, though.

toss1 2y ago
Yes, on the AI, I'm not so worried about the UI (as you say, it'd piggyback off Cortana), unless they make it an aggressive form of Clippy, always trying to "help". I'd be OK with a local version as long as the multi-GB download was optional (I'd prefer it to having to login to a MS acct, which I've so far avoided). One thing I did think of, is if they could have an intelligent super-search, it'd be really cool, like "find the pictures of my nephew playing tennis" or "who was the person I emailed a few years ago about the suspension upgrades for my car" or "find all my spreadsheets with weight workouts on volume D:".
- WorldMaker 2y ago
  > unless they make it an aggressive form of Clippy I'm starting to think that I'd prefer that to Copilot branding. It started as a joke, but the more I think about it the more I think the LLMs should be represented as cartoonish idiots with a face you want to punch, and that we are going exactly backwards in the branding from Clippy to Cortana to Copilot. As the text gets too easy to anthropomorphize as "human-like" I think we need the visual reminder that it is still a grandiloquent idiot. We should have been making the visual brands of these things more cartoonish and less serious, rather than the other way around. Now is the time for a Bonzi Buddy to reign. Of course, I'm a bit of an Microsoft Agent apologist having programmed quite a few weird things with it in High School that obviously didn't survive bit-rot. I really want to see the fun (and maybe unhinged) things that an LLM would do if it was trained to produce scripts for the Agent cartoon characters.

toss1 2y ago

Yes, on the AI, I'm not so worried about the UI (as you say, it'd piggyback off Cortana), unless they make it an aggressive form of Clippy, always trying to "help". I'd be OK with a local version as long as the multi-GB download was optional (I'd prefer it to having to login to a MS acct, which I've so far avoided). One thing I did think of, is if they could have an intelligent super-search, it'd be really cool, like "find the pictures of my nephew playing tennis" or "who was the person I emailed a few years ago about the suspension upgrades for my car" or "find all my spreadsheets with weight workouts on volume D:".

WorldMaker 2y ago
> unless they make it an aggressive form of Clippy I'm starting to think that I'd prefer that to Copilot branding. It started as a joke, but the more I think about it the more I think the LLMs should be represented as cartoonish idiots with a face you want to punch, and that we are going exactly backwards in the branding from Clippy to Cortana to Copilot. As the text gets too easy to anthropomorphize as "human-like" I think we need the visual reminder that it is still a grandiloquent idiot. We should have been making the visual brands of these things more cartoonish and less serious, rather than the other way around. Now is the time for a Bonzi Buddy to reign. Of course, I'm a bit of an Microsoft Agent apologist having programmed quite a few weird things with it in High School that obviously didn't survive bit-rot. I really want to see the fun (and maybe unhinged) things that an LLM would do if it was trained to produce scripts for the Agent cartoon characters.