I was going to make a joke that they could also replace the taskbar search bar with an AI chat bar, but after reading the article, it turns out that they’re planning on doing that for real:
Windows 11 taskbar is now being “upgraded” with AI-first features. Microsoft is working on the Ask Copilot bar, which may replace Windows Search in the taskbar.
They could just make another application. With compact mode to have as a prompt in the corner of the screen, similar to DigiCam or Winamp or other such.
They could even eventually deprecate tools allowing to do the same things it provides.
I can even say that conversational user interfaces are not all idiocy - at some point I dreamed of them replacing all the bright buttons and icons we have.
People making this are not idiots.
But putting a conversational user interface everywhere people expect to have one prompt and a response, preferably with clear logic of that response, - it’s just socially hostile behavior.
There really is progress behind this! Or, more precisely, there is sanity, it’s not all hype. Making a useful GUI requires learning something about ergonomics and human psychology and tests, most UI designers don’t have a clue. And a conversational interface, like in old text quests or MUDs and with these AI chatbots, solves the problem. It doesn’t require memorizing a thousand commands and interpreter syntax like a command shell.
Unless you make a UI with downsides of both and upsides of neither. Takes Microsoft to do this.
They NEEED to pump the copilot usage numbers to appease shareholders. It doesn’t matter if all copilot uses are accidental and unwilling, cause it’ll look great in the next quaterly report
Asking for things like AI integration everywhere?
Wouldn’t it be cool if you could have AI on the desktop clock so you could ask it what time it was in different places in the world?
I was going to make a joke that they could also replace the taskbar search bar with an AI chat bar, but after reading the article, it turns out that they’re planning on doing that for real:
Your best sarcastic self is prime Microsoft material.
Didn’t they try something similar with Cortana, and were thoroughly rejected?
This is madness. Madness? This is Wiiiiindoooows.
Why the hell …
They could just make another application. With compact mode to have as a prompt in the corner of the screen, similar to DigiCam or Winamp or other such.
They could even eventually deprecate tools allowing to do the same things it provides.
I can even say that conversational user interfaces are not all idiocy - at some point I dreamed of them replacing all the bright buttons and icons we have.
People making this are not idiots.
But putting a conversational user interface everywhere people expect to have one prompt and a response, preferably with clear logic of that response, - it’s just socially hostile behavior.
There really is progress behind this! Or, more precisely, there is sanity, it’s not all hype. Making a useful GUI requires learning something about ergonomics and human psychology and tests, most UI designers don’t have a clue. And a conversational interface, like in old text quests or MUDs and with these AI chatbots, solves the problem. It doesn’t require memorizing a thousand commands and interpreter syntax like a command shell.
Unless you make a UI with downsides of both and upsides of neither. Takes Microsoft to do this.
The people making it might not be idiots, but the people making the design decisions are
They NEEED to pump the copilot usage numbers to appease shareholders. It doesn’t matter if all copilot uses are accidental and unwilling, cause it’ll look great in the next quaterly report
It’s called a world clock
Who needs a world clock when AI can guess the time anywhere.
Or you could have a widget just showing it for a few timezones. FvwmButtons,
Exec exec date ...andSchedule Periodic ...in FVWM can do that.Does that even use a GPU?
It doesn’t.
Imagine displaying a window list without GPU acceleration.