Shoulda stuck with the old school names - Celeron (i3) / Pentium (i5) / Pentium Pro (i7) and added something like Pentium Enterprise or Workstation (i9). A P# prefix could be used for generation, and a 2-digit suffix for speed. There's still that song celebrating how It's all about the Pentiums.

With Microsoft admitting US surveillance laws override local data sovereignty laws, it's no surprise non-US companies are jumping at the chance to take over cloud-based storage services.

Type VER at a command prompt of your Windows 11 PC and tell me what version of Windows you're running.

Windows 11 is essentially a marketing term for the consolidation of all the updates they've rolled out up to a specific point in time, plus a deliberate update to the GUI, name, and TPM requirements - all rolled into the one convenient ISO.

"last Windows version" was meant to be the killing off of the radical release cycle they used to use, whereas now you get newer Windows 10.x kernals under the hood, and continuous development derived GUI on top. When there's sufficient changes to justify a new package of updates, they'll summarise up to a new release of Windows 10, called whatever is the flavour of the moment for naming conventions.

Go type "ver" at a Windows 11 command prompt and tell us what version OS you're running - mine says 10.0.261003.4652

Context matters - if you're in front of a personal workstation or similar you're probably going to prefer kb+mouse. If you're driving a vehicle then voice can be perfectly fine.

It seems weird that MS aren't providing more differentiated UIs for different scenarios - they seemed on the right track with Windows Mobile and their tile interface then iterating to Windows 8 tablet interface, but stuffed up by trying to make that tiled interface the default UX for PCs and workstations as well.

Have been rewatching Marvel superhero movies with my kids recently, and how Stark interfaces with technology you'd think would be some targets for MS, Apple, and Google:

Context aware - typically visual data with minimal audio, lots of drill through capability. Eye tracking and highlighting whatever is focused on. Multi-input display aware GenAI that can answer questions about displayed or highlighted information. Ability to output to near-random output devices with a flick of the wrist.

For MS that means different UIs for different interfaces, with seamless and instantaneous transitions when you change the output device.

Let us setup a 'show' based on a book or submitted script and allow crowdsourcing the prompts (and/or submissions) for digital artworks and backgrounds. Allow users to submit voice models and/or prompt for AI creation. Let AI consolidate and create multiple animations based on storyboard or original book and allow voting from contributors and viewers on preferred artworks, direction, models etc.

You do realise small scale implementation is to gauge feasibility of these tidal-based generators, including environmental impact, as opposed to say, coal fueled generation plants, which have been spewing particulates and higher levels of CO2 into the air for several decades now?

When it comes to wind turbines, the numbers of birds impacted are blown waaaaay out of proportion.

Maybe not, however with the increasing temperatures caused through CO2 based climate change, any energy pulled from the atmosphere is probably decreasing the problems created by higher temperatures. In this case, wind turbines are doing double duty.

If the goal is to find a new planet to call home I think that would resonate with a lot of the people on board a generational ship.

Yes, maintaining scholastic discipline when you know you're just part of a long chain of generations is probably the key problem after solving the closed ecology & space travel issues.

I haven't read any sci-fi where generational ships have worked completely as intended - it's essentially almost an accident that they arrive and can do anything at all mission related, mainly because the author acknowledges how difficult it would be.

This seems to be the solution that China is taking, whereas the USA is reversing all the progress they were making along this path. I see it in my own state where the newly elected conservative government has decided that wind farms need to be cancelled but many other non-renewables projects can skip environmental regulations entirely.

Apparently, axolotls live for 10-15 years, and regrowing a limb for a healthy juvenile takes 40-50 days. In human terms we'd be looking at 3/4 to a full year to regrow a limb - far too long to maintain a hunter gatherer lifestyle. We evolved instead to just cover the problem up ASAP with some protective stuff and get back to grubbing around to keep ourselves alive.

Replacing all those widgets in my system tray with a Windows Update related process certainly seems to reduce attack vectors significantly, though I guess it will depend on where the update is stored - if they still point at some random URL I'd be quite disappointed.

Managed desktop admins should be able to curate what's updated and when, and this may also help with those annoying times where the manufacturer wants to use their "just compiled overnight' version for in-house training and expect it to be installed on managed PCs for that day's session.

I started a new job this week, and every day I walk past dozens of people I don't know - but work "with". Augmented reality should be able to show me their name and role, my last interaction with them, whether I have any upcoming meetings this week that they're in, and if either of us are waiting on the other to do something. As we also have hotdesking with a booking system, if I wanted to talk to someone face to face it could guide me there as well if they're in the same location as I am that day.

Conversely, when others look at me, "new starter" should be marked so that they can introduce themselves.

I'm getting too old to remember all that stuff when I go somewhere new - I'm at the other end of the bellcurve of age.

Mind you, I'm also getting close to just not giving a shit about it all anymore, so I guess I have that going for me, which is nice.

For me it would be to identify people around me and provide their name, how I know them (for those I rarely see), and any pertinent info that may be of interest for starting / continuing a conversation. Even with my direct work colleagues, there's something like 8+ kids that I'm trying to track names, approx age, and their occupation or year of school. Would also help with my nieces and nephews, where I will see them a few times per year but still ask the same leading questions each time. Oh I'm starting a new job soon, imagine that after every introduction the name, position, and responsibilities became available via these. This could work also when on a phone call, with relevant info showing on the screen. Socially these things would help massively.

There's the possibility they could highlight dangers, like a snake on a hiking trail that blends in for me - but not a pattern matching AI. Or perhaps it can hear a bear coming or the rattle on a rattlesnake, or use infrared to highlight someone walking on the side of the road in dark clothes at night

Maybe they'll help manual tasks by showing you the steps, or highlighting the part you're looking for on the table in front of you (LEGO for instance).

Law enforcement might be able to subpoena recorded video for any AI glasses that are near an unlawful event to help identify perps (probably most likely thing TBH).

That's something the school should be doing rather than the student. The school has contact details for the parents and can (or should, my school can) send targeted SMS and email messages about things like this.