This has to be the idea of the century

  • Teknikal
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    86 months ago

    Give it another 6 months and it’ll be “Skynet for xbox” or something similarly worse.

    • @[email protected]
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      46 months ago

      As always, Microsoft is always one step behind apple.

      At least apple intelligence was a little clever, its abbreviation is still “AI”

      But windows intelligence? That just sounds fucking stupid. As an operating system windows is not known for its intelligence. Stupid slow, bloated, spying sack of shit software.

      • @[email protected]
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        36 months ago

        They should’ve looked at their star software product: Microsoft access.

        Now presenting: Access Intelligence

  • Tux
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    266 months ago

    Its still the same PR nightmare and no one wants your AI crapware Micro$oft!

    • Jack
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      86 months ago

      Yeah I love that it’s just a shitty product, but no, go on try fixing it with ✨ rebranding ✨

      This is not only for Microsoft, AI is overhyped as a whole.

  • Kokesh
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    126 months ago

    They should invest a couple billion in it, rename it and cancel afterwards.

      • Kokesh
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        16 months ago

        No, M$. The whole Windows Phone 7 Series or whatever it was called at some point saga

      • @[email protected]
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        6 months ago

        Microsoft will rename it, add something else in its place but let the old things linger in a zombie-like state.
        Lost count of how many separate Skype/Zoom apps there are now.

  • @[email protected]
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    1136 months ago

    If they did this from the start it might’ve sounded fine, but now it just feels like they’re trend-chasing after Apple Intelligence…

      • Tux
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        46 months ago

        Fuck MS

        Always has been

      • @[email protected]
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        6 months ago

        Seems a lot more similar to Gnome and KDE than Apple tbh.

        They have a history of copying stuff (including branding) from Linux projects.

  • @[email protected]
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    426 months ago

    Copilot is fantastic branding tbh. It’s like the MBAs want change for the sake of keeping their jobs.

    • @[email protected]
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      6 months ago

      For real.

      I dislike Copilot with a burning passion, but I can’t deny it’s an amazing name. Because that’s what AI in an OS should be.

      A copilot. One that will take over and help me do things, especially tedious things like offline translation, better screen reader functionality for the blind, better speech recognition and synthesis, etc.

      Of course that’s not what MS is doing, they’re doing it to shove gimmicks down our throat and to scoop up data en masse.

      Windows Intelligence is just… Ugh. Do they not get that Apple Intelligence, while still being a bit of a rubbish name, at least works because it still can be shortened to AI?

    • @[email protected]
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      56 months ago

      I agree. In a vacuum, Copilot is a good name, potentially S tier. Too bad they shoved it in everyone’s face and made us all hate it. Now they have to rebrand and hope we don’t hate that too. Spoiler, we will.

      • @[email protected]
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        26 months ago

        Don’t even know why they think rebranding it will work

        People aren’t stupid. Referring to shit with another word doesnt make it any less gross.

  • @[email protected]
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    136 months ago

    Ooh, can I use that App that used to be Remote Desktop and then they renamed it, hmm, what did they call it… oh right “Windows App”

  • Quicky
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    6 months ago

    No interest in Windows at all, but Copilot is actually a great name for what the product is supposed to be/being marketed as. Windows Intelligence sounds like a return to the very old-school long-winded style of Microsoft branding.

    • @[email protected]
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      336 months ago

      Agreed, Copilot was one of if not the best named AI I think. Why they would want to rebrand it to something so bland so quickly is beyond me

      • @[email protected]
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        176 months ago

        I have no love for Microsoft but their naming is one of the worst parts… Let’s make a game console! We’ll call it Xbox!.. That sold well let make another! We’ll call it xbox360… Time for a refresh on the gaming console! We’ll call it Xbox one… Another refresh but this time let’s make two versions! We’ll call them Xbox one series s and x box one series s!

        Or our popular ide is bloated and people are asking for a light weight ide… What’s our current ide called? Visual studio but alot of people abbreviate it to vs! Let’s call the new one vscode! Do they have anything in common or share functionality or shortcuts? No

        Don’t get me started on windows… 3.1… 95…nt…98…2000…me…vista…7…8…10…11 like wtf???

        • @[email protected]
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          66 months ago

          At least Xbox made some sense, it was originally going to be called the DirectXbox, thankfully they shortened the name to something catchier.

        • VindictiveJudge
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          26 months ago

          NT was a fully seperate product from 95 and 98, using a different kernel. 95 -> 98 -> Me was the old kernel, NT -> 2000 -> XP -> Vista -> 7 -> 8 -> 10 -> 11 is the other line. Me was a play on Millenium Edition, so that line was just numbered by year. The NT series names are a bit wonky, though. The reason for skipping 9 involves legacy program support and bad coding practices from ye olde programmers. 7 was kind of an arbitrary number to begin with, though.

          • @[email protected]
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            16 months ago

            Yeah, I understand the whole different kernal thing but that’s the type of thing that the average consumer shouldn’t have to know to follow your program naming scheme.

            • clif
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              16 months ago

              I just enjoy that I can call them “xbone”

      • Uninvited Guest
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        46 months ago

        Cortana was the best branding, though I understand only resonated within certain circles.

    • @[email protected]
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      6 months ago

      The virgin .NET:

      Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture;
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      The chad POSIX: LANG=C

      • Balder
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        36 months ago

        lol I didn’t think like that at first, but now it’ll stay in my mind.

        • @[email protected]
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          46 months ago

          Just so I’m the first one to utter the phrase:

          "We have credible reports from Windows Intelligence that a crime has been committed, your computer is going to restart. "

  • @[email protected]
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    346 months ago

    Microsoft try not to copy everything Apple does challenge: Impossible

    At least “Apple Intelligence” is cute because the initials for it are A.I.

    • ayaya
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      106 months ago

      I don’t think Microsoft is capable of not fumbling everything related to the Halo franchise.

    • @[email protected]
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      86 months ago

      I think staying with cortana and focusing on making that a useful feature would be a better strat. It would be cool to have a little cortana robot inside your computer helping you with various tasks.

  • Snot Flickerman
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    686 months ago

    “Windows Intelligence” is an oxymoron, just like whoever came up with this rebranding.

  • Brumefey
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    66 months ago

    It will be as successfull as the twitter to x rebranding