Windows users who have installed the preview update may see advertisement when they interact with Copilot. Asking Copilot for the best gaming laptops returns five suggestions, similar to what Bing Chat would provide, and ads at the end of the output.
Copilot for Windows has barely shipped and Microsoft is already using it to push ads into the operating system you paid for. “AI” is just a fancy autocomplete designed to push ads.
Windows is grim.
24hr/day usage data, fancy “ai”, ads.
Whatever could go wrong?
One of the inevitabilities of allowing these companies to increasingly blur the lines between your private, personal computer and the Internet, apart from them completely annihilating your privacy, is that there will eventually be non-removable dancing corporate mascots on your desktop to sell you random garbage!
Don’t say we didn’t warn you!
And when the corporate suits are finished with the consumer, you’ll have to pay a (constantly increasing) monthly subscription fee to experience the above, as well as anything else they randomly decide to impose on you tomorrow. “We have an exciting new feature that will make us more money, and we are so sure that you’ll love it that we’ve automatically installed it and configured it for you, and you’re not allowed to remove it.”
As the old saying goes: people who can afford a Mac, get a Mac. The only exception is PC gaming (a headache most people avoid by getting a console, this also allows for buying a passively-cooled computer) and some specialist workloads (in which case I feel your pain, trying to do work and having to cut through all those ads and upsells).
Generally, when it comes to win32/win64 compatibility going forward, SteamOS is our last, best hope.
kurkosdr,
Never heard this, and I personally don’t agree with it. My desire for products is more utilitarian than based on how much it costs. I don’t see myself getting over my dislike of computers with soldered storage. Even to the extent that I were willing to spend unlimited money, I can still get higher end GPUs, higher core CPUs elsewhere. The inability to run my linux distro of choice on modern macs is a definite “no” from me.
That said, if I had one I would be curious to try asahi linux on it. Last I heard though the support for much of apple’s proprietary tech was less than ideal. Without m1 accelerators, which are responsible for m1’s smoothness in applications, unaccellerated software-only linux applications on m1/m2 could actually end up lagging. I’d certainly be interested in testing this.
https://linuxiac.com/asahi-linux-alpha/
The obvious advantage of ARM computers today is power efficiency, something that x86 computers aren’t competitive at.
I guess there’s always this reason to buy apple/mac/iphone…
“Survey: iPhone users don’t want to date Android users”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhYqR6yzryI
It’s fascinating how shallow people have become in their dating lives. Apple could probably sell a lot more phones just by advertising this fact. Want to be more datable? Buy an iphone and your dating appeal will go up 50%! 🙁
It’s interesting to debate this. I suppose you do not need Ads when your system is so closed that the user base is trapped by the ecosphere, the real trick then becomes having the user believe they have a choice!
I think the people primarily see what they want to see, on one system they might call it an abuse of rights, on another they’ll claim it is managing the system for the best possible user experience.
I’ll be the one to say it… ads can be useful. And there is a difference in how ads are presented.
If I’m searching for “best X deals” I want results that give me the best deals for X.. and yes that will come in the form of an advert. This is the reality of how people currently use search engines. Compare this to the ads on OSnews which are “personalised” (read taken from my usage data) which I’ve not asked for in any way.
P.s. I appreciate Thom isn’t taking my data, but the ad supplier IS