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"You get an AI! And YOU get an AI!! EVERYBODY GETS AN AI!!!!!"
Posted on 10/18/2025 3:53:53 PM PDT by Openurmind
Microsoft has officially ended support for Windows 10, all but forcing users to either upgrade or pay more money to keep getting essential security updates for the OS they already own. No matter that its replacement, Windows 11, can’t be run on nearly half a billion machines, meaning it’ll create mountains of e-waste as those old, perfectly usable PCs get thrown out for new ones.
If possible, things are getting even worse. This week, Microsoft is launching a suite of artificial intelligence features that basically turns existing Windows 11 systems into full-blown “AI PCs” which are controlled by Copilot, the company’s AI assistant. This isn’t us being uncharitable: it’s literally how a Microsoft exec is describing the update.
“We think we’re on the cusp of the next evolution, where AI happens not just in that chatbot and gets naturally integrated into the hundreds of millions of experiences that people use every day,” Yusuf Mehdi, executive vice president and consumer chief marketing officer at Microsoft, told The Verge in a briefing. “The vision that we have is: let’s rewrite the entire operating system around AI, and build essentially what becomes truly the AI PC.”
It is all according to plans laid long ago.
Thank God for Linux. All my machines are Dual Boot and 99.7% of the time, Linux is what is running
On the VERY rare occasions that I need to do something on Windows, I have Windows 7 installation on my main desktop that I use, and on another old laptop I may use Win 7 two hours a month..
Have another laptop that was originally Windows 8.1 and I hated that from the start. I use the Linux install on it maybe fifteen hours a year and the Win 8.1 a half hour a year.
New Mini-PC that came with Win 11. I played around with that for a few hours when I first got it, hated it, and wiped the system for another linux install.
I reckon that the antichrist will mandate that everyone use Windows 12.666 in a few years.
But I know most people don't do that sort of thing. However, there are methods to get Windows 10 updates for another year, which I'm getting now. And CoPilot can be uninstalled from Windows 11, which I also did along with Edge and much of its telemetry hacks.
That said, I hope this news finally gives the makers of Linux products the backbone and drive to finally update Linux software so that Windows software can finally be installed without the need for emulators, VMs, etc.
I for one will not bow the knee to AI driven software and if need be I'll start using Linux full time, falling back on W7 & W10 only when I have to. It's sad it has to come to this, but those of us who knows what the future holds are not taken by surprise by this news, and we will adapt accordingly.
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"You get an AI! And YOU get an AI!! EVERYBODY GETS AN AI!!!!!"
Mustafa Suleyman is Microsoft’s AI guy and he wants it to control your life ,LOL
With all respect, you've got it backwards. There's no benefit in twisting Linux/GNU into knots, trying to act enough like Windows/NT that it can fool an application program that expects Windows into running on some misbegotten quasi-Linux hybrid.
Instead let us hope the makers of Windows-only software will recognize the benefits of making their software compatible with a better operating system (Linux) whose user base, while smaller, is growing. People are abandoning Windows. It's nowhere near in danger of disappearing, but it's clear Microsoft has lost their way.
Linux is the future -- application makers need to get the backbone and drive, to see the direction of the future.
For many people, a FREE Linux distribution will be more than adequate for their needs, provide great performance on existing hardware, be more secure and with Open Desktop (free open version ) that looks and works like MSOffice; do everything they need
Faster, more secure and easy
Bump
And the great thing about Linux is that once you make that initial installation USB stick you can install it to as many computers as you like. No licenses, no accounts, no internet to use it, none of those leashes, it is YOURS.
Braxman is an authority!
“Instead let us hope the makers of Windows-only software will recognize the benefits of making their software compatible with a better operating system (Linux) whose user base, while smaller, is growing. People are abandoning Windows. It’s nowhere near in danger of disappearing, but it’s clear Microsoft has lost their way.”
You know that is up to us right? We have to contact the software companies in mass over and over asking about Linux versions. Fill their mailbox so that they cannot just ignore it. Do not take no for an answer.
Have Linux Mint installed on an older PC. Works great and gets better as more drivers and interfaces have been developed over the last couple of years. Web queries for drivers and installation commands and procedures generally return favorable answers. If you can do command line copy and paste actions you should be ok.
Well done... :)
Perfect time to return to Mac after 30+ years. Goodbye Win 10 - Hello Mac mini 4
I got my first post-end date (that wasn’t) update of Win 10. First screen after updating was an offer to buy a family plan 360. Declined. Next screen was a low cost personal plan. Declined. Third screen was free access to 360 if I would let them upload my documents to the cloud. Closed that out, went back to using the laptop as usual.
They don’t really care if you go to 11 or not; as long as you give them (or is it the NSA) an open channel to your documents.
Well, at least MS stock is doing well, and Intel is close to doubling from its recent lows.
Same here. I bought a new printer a couple weeks ago and was worried it would not be compatible with W7. It is, and works perfectly.
I treat a computer like an old vehicle, if it still runs, does all the things it was designed to do, then why get rid of it?
For high tech buffs, you and I are sinners. We should be thrown into the deepest pits of hell for not having the latest devices that can be used to spy on us. And this new W11 AI garbage will likely be Big Brother’s best friend. You will not be able to do anything privately. Disable your wifi, it will still keep track of every word, each picture and anything you do, then report it the next time you go online.
Rob knows his stuff
Windows: the OS you use to download Linux..
“Windows: the OS you use to download Linux..”
Only one time... From then on you are free and never need it again...
If you use Microsoft and you are a home user ******get your bitlocker recovery key and safeguard it***””
I couldn’t access the Microsoft account to get the key when my computer gave me the dreaded lockout.
I somehow finagled my way into my computer and made darn sure I got that key . Microsoft had told me I would have to reset my computer but I got around it by a miracle.
Don’t ask me to explain any of it. Just get your key. Research the word bitlocker
That guy is great! I’m a fan and a follower now. Especially after he said “Tell Microsoft to go Zuck themselves!”....lololol.
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