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.

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.

Yep. On Linux, as soon as you get the kernel loaded and started, it takes over and uses what is there, unless you tell it not to.

I.e. they want people to pay more for it, so they disable what is there and works fine on cheaper models?

I think in the EU, that would be pretty illegal. In the US, it is probably entirely fine.