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Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface (www.windowscentral.com)
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[–] Feyd@programming.dev 22 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I think a lot of people are going to struggle getting their head around the idea of voice being a reliable, primary input method when using a PC, but with agentic AI and the ability for the OS to understand user intent and natural language, it's going to feel a lot more natural than you might think.

You're damn right we're going to struggle. I won't believe it is reliable enough to be anything but infuriating until I see it.

[–] Quantenteilchen@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 day ago

I hate all MS Office products for their "smartness" already!

No Word, I chose those words and this spelling very precisely thank you very much. And no PowerPoint, I would like to align these things with actual precision even between your auto-snap guides and kilometer-per-arrow-press positions...

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Ahh, keyboard. How quaint!

[–] 6nk06@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I just bought a new mechanical keyboard, I'm such a fucking loser. I hate myself sometimes.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Was it one of the 8bitdo ones?

[–] 6nk06@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

No, and I'm deluded enough to think it's good quality and perfect for me.

[–] Feyd@programming.dev 4 points 2 days ago

Love that scene

[–] suicidaleggroll@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Ugh, not this voice control BS again. It's like the people who pop up every once in a while asking why there isn't a "natural English" programming language. It's because human language is imprecise and full of nuance. To describe something to the precision needed for a computer to take action and actually do the thing you want it to do, you have to be so ridiculously verbose in your description that it would take 10-100x longer than just clicking a button with your mouse or typing a command on the keyboard.

Have none of these people ever sat behind someone operating a computer and tried to instruct them to do something even moderately complex? About 5 minutes in I'm usually tearing my hear out screaming "JUST LET ME SIT IN THE CHAIR AND DO IT MYSELF!"

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

I tried dictating a talk onto the computer in several ways recently. Not one piece of software was able to do it without me having to edit constantly. I haven't seen anyone get voice input to the point where it isn't a pain. I highly doubt Microsoft figured out reliable voice input but kept it back for Windows 12. It's going to be the same shit.