Microsoft Just Revealed Windows 12 "Your computer can actually look at your screen and is context aware... you'll be able to speak to your computer while you're writing, inking, or interacting with another person. You should be able to have a computer semantically understand your intent to interact with it." - Voice becomes a primary input method alongside mouse/keyboard - OS understands natural language commands based on screen context - "Ambient computing" that spans multiple form factors - Combines local and cloud computing for seamless experiences - Complete UI redesign around "agentic AI" Apple is already adding voice navigation to iOS 26 that understands user intent across apps (September release). The future is now. Given Google's AI advancements, Microsoft won't wait.

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Read your screen - no E2E for desktop apps! That's a no from me. I'll stick to Linux thanks!
I don't think this will be windows 12 that would be so soon already. I think it will just be a windows 11 update.
Linux is also rapidly integrating AI. While Linux may offer more privacy controls and open-source transparency, major Linux distros like Red Hat (IBM) just announced in February 2025 their plans to integrate AI into Fedora and GNOME, and GNOME just released Newelle 1.0 in August 2025—a full AI assistant that can execute terminal commands, manage files, and do voice chat. There are also entire Linux distributions like Ubuntu AI, Fedora AI, and Pop!_OS AI specifically built for AI integration. So switching to Linux won't help you escape AI integration—it's happening across all major operating systems.
There will always be alternative distros to choose from, linux allows me to choose what runs on my machine, as opposed to being dictated by Microsoft and Apple.
Honestly, AI in the OS wouldn't be so bad if I could be certain all that info isn't all funneled back to MS and sold to the highest bidder. I'm very interested to see what sorts of innovations we see in Linux desktop environments with ethical AI use
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blkbird 4 months ago
I'm so glad I got into compiling software when I did. I couldn't imagine being forced to have AI components on my machine just for using a DE