That we'll simply allow the USA to shaft us with all of these companies which are basically monopolies?

- Microsoft (Windows)
- Apple (App Store)
- Google (advertising, Android, Chrome)
- Amazon (AWS)
- OpenAI (illegally vacuuming up paid content without permission)

These monopolies deserve to be hit with regulations and, upon non-compliance, be fined. There is exactly one EU company which is a monopoly (ASML), and even that company is facing competition. All the rest need to catch up to the USA companies. Now, the EU is not playing favorites for EU companies, it's just that most tech monopolies are in the USA.

The EU is doing what the USA should have done a loooooong time ago. And now the USA is complaining because its government was basically bought by those 5 companies and/or the billionaires owning them.

Don't the various spreadsheet programs have a means to link specified cells to a query or table in a database?

Microsoft stopped caring about it's OS as an OS a loooooooooong time ago. Now it just looks at it as a means to squeeze as much money (either directly or indirectly) out of its users. Problem is, they can't immediately start charging people for the more obvious stuff - they need to put little things in there for which they can charge, such as... oh, say, access to your own data stored in the *cough* safety *cough* of the cloud. Those handy AI features, will of course eventually get integrated in *cough* helpful *cough* features in the cloud, which will, again, cost money.

Microsoft is dumping each and every single of its users om a ever so slightly, but oh, so slippery slope of dependence, data extraction, and subscription. It won't happen now, maybe not with Windows 12, but sooner or later it will come from Microsoft and every step on the way is meant to ease you right into it.

The companies aren't making that much money from their AI's, a company might be worth billions, while its revenue (not profit) might be no more than €20mln. This is going to implode as soon as the AI-fad is over.

AI is a useful tool and it has value, but right now the value of anything with AI in it is simply way too high due to it being hyped into the stratosphere. Anyone financial reads "AI" and stops thinking and starts seeing euro signs and starts investing without looking at the numbers of the company.

This is simply unsustainable. A lot of people will get burned sooner or later.

They've been taken over by the marketing machine. They're headed in the direction of the dodo.

Putting sanctions on Karim Khan instantly made everyone aware of their dependence on American companies. The USA proved that they're an unreliable business partner that'll do whatever the current president wants. It wasn't as if it was some low profile person. Whether Karim Khan was an asshole or not does not matter. The USA took revenge on him for daring to do what the USA doesn't like. Now the whole world knows. Anybody that matters is at this point looking to ditch Microsoft. Using Microsoft software is now much more a liability than it was previously. Microsoft was happy that most officials did not care. Now those same officials care.

But then again, it's Microsoft we're talking about here. They mess up everything they touch.

Well, if this feature gets used in call-centers, therapists are most certainly not going to be out of work for the foreseeable future.

Microsoft needs to roll out new, unneeded, features to make the various investors happy. On top of that, they're playing catch-up with iOS and Android. Not that it matters to the average person, because they wouldn't know of that feature except when they accidentally activate it without them knowing and chaos ensues.

I wonder how long it'll take them to reverse this shit as complaints start to hit the internet.

"The AI wiped all my vacation pictures."
"The presentation slides I needed to hand over to my boss tomorrow were messed up."
"It started playing loud music while my baby is sleeping next to me."

Probably just some shit headed for Microsoft. But hey! Microsoft gets to say they implemented AI which listens to input.

I'll call your bluff and raise you by one hundred: I'm actually typing this from computer rescued from Windows and which is currently running Linux Mint.

I quite appreciate the communities I'm a part of and ask you to not show up with your toxic shit. It's types like you which make sure the various open source communities need to invest time in Code of Conduct policies, thus distracting them from their primary purpose.

Here's a hint: don't be an asshole and people might actually treat you better.

CLI - he'll enjoy this most. Don't forget to remove the manual pages.

> And linux on desktop remains so god awful, that windows is still an obvious choice for a desktop PC.

Bullshit.

I'm a happy Linux Mint user. No problems whatsoever. I'm just your regular desktop user who doesn't give a damn about the CLI, and you know what? It actually works better than Windows. It doesn't change with each new version and doesn't vacuum up all your data.

And, no, I'm not a fanboy. I simply use it for my writing (ghostwriter), music (spotify) and browsing needs (firefox). It doesn't get in my way and allows me to tweak it to my liking. All point'n click.

That Microsoft wants to force users to have an online account when installing Windows. Seems to me they have an ulterior motive.

Now, what's the ultimate question?

Nobody is moving over to Windows 11 anymore and Microsoft is certainly aware of the campaigns which try to save computers which don't support Windows 11 by installing ChromeOS Flex or some Linux Distribution. Microsoft wants to prevent this, and so they make it easier to extend support.