Quite true. Unfortunately, MS crap is also a really good example for a market failure.

Indeed. Windows and MS Office are a disgrace to the whole human race. No product on that level should ever have long-term economic success.

Yep. As if denial would make their predicament any less bad.

The always have been. Unfortunately, most of their customers are too. It just has gotten more concrete with LLMs now.

I get the driver behind this. Also trade-secrets, etc.

But is this really a local model and is no data transferred? There is some fuzzy language in "use an on-device AI model to power some of its features". What bout other features? What about if it "powers" the features, bit the data is still sent home? The whole thing looks like a lie by misdirection to me.

Difficult to say. I have no idea how much power an "NPU" draws.

> And that means you vote for politicians who'll do it. If you're American that means a Democrat.

You mean, like the Microsoft anti-trust case which was filed in 2001 when both President and House were Republicans and the Senate was 50:50?

Has there been any anti-trust case against big business since then? Maybe the Democrats did something but I can't remember anything like that offhand.

At this point, expecting elections to do anything just makes you look incredibly naive. It's clear that the only thing the vast majority of populations care about is grift.

> The thing is, there's money to be made in AI, LOTS of money

Sure, just about everyone is losing money pushing "AI", but they'll make it up on volume.

So the only thing that requires actual on-target rational thought? That does not sound good at all.

THAT is your criticism? Seems pretty invalid to me, because Windows did not really do any better back when.

Sad but true.

They will likely still listen to and record everything. The main difference is that you pay the power used. But now you have the illusion of the data staying on your device. Nice!

See also: https://thehackernews.com/2025...

Or maybe the Epstein version ...

On Linux: No need, it finds the hardware and uses it.
On Windows: Well, Microsoft is probably fine with this crap move and will try to sabotage attempts.

Yep. That has happened to a lot of companies that were originally lead by engineers.