Link: https://tech4gamers.com/windows-12-reportedly-relasing-2026-modular-ai-focused-os/

wow.. OS Subcription-Based with AI?

you'll own nothing, and you'll be happy

I'm glad I already moved to Linux for 2 years

All I really want from windows is to run my programs. Maybe find a file, if I need it. Hopefully I can get just that component.

Sounds like a huge sack of shit

Modular meaning...I can have bare minimum without ai?

Lol so force gamers and home users off the OS and go full b2b is the play? I mean we all saw it coming but that does not bode well for us serfs.

Also rumored to require a CPU with a npu 😂

Subscription-based. AI-focused.

Lol. No thanks.

Let me guess? The AI usage is going to stick its hand in your pocket for usage credits. Remembering that AI is currently massively unprofitable, at some point they're going to try to make money off it. Ironically I don't think they've considered that any supposed savings they make in getting rid of employees will get eaten up in energy and compute costs by AI companies. The business case for this has never made any sense.

Maybe when you keep your feature requests reasonable then Microsoft will be willing to consider them.

Lots of buzzwords

You’ll be hounded relentlessly to upgrade until you give up and pay the monthly usage fee

Oh quite the opposite. A mass adoption of GNU+Linux OSes would be great for consumers / non business users.

Unfortunately you can't remove AI from Winslop 12

Unfortunately, these are the only bright sides to this new OS. Microsoft’s Copilot, the AI assistant the company has been aggressively injecting across the ecosystem, will now be a core part of the next Windows iteration rather than a supplementary feature.

Some parts of the OS might also be locked away behind a subscription model that are expected to be “advanced AI services”, etc.

Well at least they meant it when they said windows 10 will be the last os they make,.

No. Modular payment methods you can assign for your daily usage fees.

I had not really considered going full-time Linux until now. If they attempt to force that unto me, it will be the end of Microsoft for my household. I've successfully been AT&T free for almost 2 decades. There are a few other companies like that which will never earn another direct dollar from me. Microslop may be next.

Microsoft can subscribe to deez nuts.

What’s so bad about homosexuality?

Don’t reduce gay people to the level of Microsoft.

No the move to all b2b is not good with the way our world is structured. But yeah the move to linux that will be good specifically.

I'm also happy I switched to Linux 2 yrs ago. Thanks Microslop

I feel like america and many leading tech companies are evil.

Lmao no thanks.

Finally, an OS for me! My biggest complaint since the days of Windows 95 has been the lack of being able to add new features. I didn't really care what they are, but I just like the process of subscribing to additional features until I can max them all out.

And secondly, my next biggest gripe has been how hard it is to find AI. It's never at my fingertips. Now that it'll be integrated into the OS itself, I can finally use AI for everything! And if I can buy new hardware annually to allow me to resubscribe to all the latest features, while telling AI my shipping habits, I think it'll be perfect!

I can't wait to give Bill Gates money for this! I know he'll spend it on a good cause. Maybe two young Russian good causes! He's such a cool guy and not at all a billionaire creepo, thank goodness!

ewwww I feel like I need to bleach out my brain just from reading that.

Lol no. It means you pay a subscription fee for everything individually. MicroTransactions, only this time they have your files hostage.

I was there when they put solitaire in the app store.

Holy crap, they broke the pattern and doubled down on a shit idea that makes an OS underperform instead of listening to the consumer backlash. Windows is dead.

As a gay person...

I'm wondering why there is an uneven number of guys on both sides. Is it an orgy? Or is one guy doing 2 at once? Or is there a woman that's not counted because we only count men in this analogy?

Also, why does analogy contain "anal", it's weird.

I have so many questions.

It's nice over here.

Or switch to Linux

Only if you switch to Linux

Boy they can't read rooms

I remember in early 2024 when I switched to Mint I got some mild pushback from acquaintances, saying in so many words that I was overreacting to Windows getting shittier and that "you can just strip all that bullshit out/you can make a local account/etc." (while at the same time telling me "linux is too hard/painful because of all the stuff you have to do to make it work right/doesn't have xyz program").

I have been getting ever more smug and feeling more vindicated about this decision every day for the past two years.

I feel like this is what Microsoft would need to do for mass linux adoption lol. They're doing an amazing job, love this from them

Thank you Microsoft ❤️❤️

Also, why does analogy contain “anal”, it’s weird.

Anal-og-y

As in: anal is the OG y(why)

As in: why? Anal, that's why.

Source: my anus.

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Hello Linux

Lol the office 365gpt of OS's?

I live here. Yes and yes to both of your assessments.

It's so fucking nice, in nearly all aspects

These AI features won’t come cheaply, with Windows 12 set to debut a new hardware requirement just as its predecessor did with the TPM 2.0 requirement. This time around, a dedicated NPU would be required, a specialized processor designed to handle AI tasks.

LOL. No one is going to buy that crap. Linux is going to keep going up in popularity.

Nah, I’m not the target audience. Switched to Linux over a decade ago with no regrets. Windows is essentially malware now.

I moved my personal computer to Linux Mint and it’s pretty much the same experience as Windows except my i7-6700 works fine with Linux as opposed to being hamstrung into not working with Windows 11.

This feels like an LLM summary of the PCWorld article it uses as its sole reference.

I wonder how much it would cost to just have a command prompt....like MS/DOS? I'd buy that...MS/DOS 12...yeah!!! Of course I would expect to get more than 640K...

It's like complaining about requiring the command line but willing to mess with regedit, group policies or even powershell to just get Windows to a temporarily usable state (before an update overrides your settings).

As an American who used to work in tech, yes.