After the Windows Server 2025’s launch, a Windows insider posted a screenshot on X showing Copilot running on Windows Server 2025, Build 26063.1.
The admins discovered the feature in shock and wondered if it was a mistake from Microsoft’s part.
A month later, the same Bob Pony broke the news that most admins wanted to see: Copilot is gone in Windows Server 2025’s Build 26085.
↫ Claudiu Andone
This reminds of Windows Server 2012, which was based on Windows 8 and launched with a Metro user interface.
FWIW, I use GPT-4 all the time as a software engineer and the boost in my productivity is very measurable. I do not use it to write code for me, but to help me learn new technologies and to write small examples. I have also had very deep conversations with it about the intricacies of how certain mechanism work. It’s not perfect, far from it, but my frustration comes from the fact that it’s all to easy to forget that I’m not talking to a person. To me this is magical already.
As for copilot, yeah Microsoft is sleazy, so I’m sure they are utilizing the tech to like spy or spam.
I feel the same way: AI is going to drive lots of innovation and productivity. However I don’t particularly like the idea of the OS being permanently tethered to proprietary microsoft services., which is objectively bad for privacy and control. I still view the OS as something that should under owner control, doubly so for a server OS. Any service integration should really be done in a vendor neutral way to allow owners/companies to plugin the solution providers of their choice, including self hosting. Unfortunately microsoft wants customers to be on a leash. They cannot be trusted to do it the way it should be done.
The sooner this bubble bursts the better.
Geck,
Some AI startups will fall, but AI is here to stay. It’s not going to be because AI’s cool factor or other short term fads. Instead the real reason AI is sticking around is because employees are the single largest cost for companies. As labor costs continue to rise, AI that comes down in cost becomes more and more appealing. AI makes it possible for companies to pay fewer employees by increasing the productivity of the remaining employees. This has already started happening and it’s going to keep happening because corporations will do what corporations have always done: push their own greedy economic agenda above everything else.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mOyeNeKUeI&list=PLsDBN8AWiuvaf2eyLROAD8tmyGe_BeGD8
Outside some niche segments this technology has no real meaning. Microsoft is rather desperate at finding the “next big thing” and that is on why it’s currently inflated as is, opening a candy bar and AI jumping out of it. On the long run this approach isn’t sustainable. As for worrying about real people and their jobs being threatened by it. This technology has not much to do with that, as this has been happening for decades now, degradations of stable jobs due to gigs economy, gentrification as a model of urban development, housing being considered a luxury, cars too … Anyway. From this technology point of view it’s impossible to take people away and replace them with code. As if you do that then the model degrades severely and becomes a joke. So it’s actually the other way around. If we would actually switch to AI economy, then more human resources would be needed, to sustain this model, not less. Currently it only works due to not paying for the human resources part, this is already changing. It will likely even become illegal soon, to not quote the sources and not to compensate the creators for it.
Geck,
You’re not wrong, corporations have proven that they are both willing and able to take more profits out of worker productivity at the expense of workers. However I think you are wrong to call this the bottom, things can get way worse and corporations will be happy to let it happen as long as owners and execs get even higher profits.
That doesn’t make local sense and I think is wishful thinking.
I agree that legal/legislative processes theoretically could change the corporate incentives. However politicians (both democratic and republican) have usually been in cahoots with the corporations. To date they’ve allowed corporations to take more and more of our productivity to enrich themselves while passing corporate tax subsidies that bankrupt social programs, and make healthcare, housing, food, education, etc less affordable for the lower and middle classes. So I lack faith in governments coming to save us here. While some politicians do care, they’ve been ineffective against strongly coordinated stonewalling.
Corporations are responsible of many things still here i feel the blame is more on policy makers and on society we became. As for switching to AI economy, if that ever happens, the amount of resources including human, to keep it going, that would only grow exponentially.
Geck,
You’re going to need to provide some rational for that statement, because what you are saying does not stand on it’s own.
Indeed, this “computer” thing is just a fad!
Pretty much at this point. Creators using it already stating they recognize the output of the model they use from miles away. Value of such content hence can’t be high.
At some point it will find its way into servers. And with good reason.
Think of it working like this. Rather than a person chatting to it, it’s reading a log output. When certain behaviours or errors occur it can then initiate responses in the system.
Simple example if a node/container stops responding, restart it.
All orchestration systems like Kubernetes are, at their core, a rule based system that action specific inputs.
Adurbe,
I can see how AI might be helpful there, but it’d be really problematic IMHO to be dependent on a remote service to achieve it. I take issue with making windows users dependent on their data centers. Not only is this bad for privacy and control, but it’s not as reliable as local services either. Unfortunately the tech companies are falling in love with replacing owner controlled software with software that is more dependent on online servers and accounts. It’s the same crap MS were pulling with the xbox that Sony called them out for in a commercial…
“Official PlayStation Used Game Instructional Video”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWSIFh8ICaA
This is my biggest gripe with the AI we’re seeing because I want owner to retain control over local software. We have a lot to loose as local operating systems become more dependent on the borg.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they actually pulled it for segmentation reasons rather than that it wasn’t wanted. 2012/2012R2 had an app store as did early 2016 builds but it was removed not for technical reasons but for market segmentation reasons (they didn’t want users running 2016 as a desktop and having no store discouraged that).
They were however happy to push an update to 2022 that installed the Azure management agents by default to any server without the ability for Admins to preemptively disable it. Adding random nonsense to server isn’t taboo over there, self-competition is.