That's great we really need to get the AIs playing the game for me so I'll have more time to spend on things I enjoy: like standing in the bread line.
I'm happily typing this from a Linux machine but it pisses me off that the vast majority of people will be OK with this, won't know about it, or won't care.
Big Tech has learned how to perfectly boil the frog.
Online connection? So I remove the internet from the thing and it just doesn't work? Easy fix.
If you're going to air gap it, there are better windows operating systems than 11
It isn't air gapped, I just have a program that can block internet access to anything running. My internet is bad enough I can tell when something is using almost anything, and I've blocked most windows processes. It's just another check box to click
I have been balls deep in some copilot studio stuff over the past week. It is legitimately one of the worst applications I've use in my life. In a business environment, there is no security unless you pay for premium licenses for every user that touches a managed environment. That's $30 per user per month for basic security. If you have one agent that 1000 employees may use, that's baseline $30k per month. If you don't have a managed environment, the anybody in your organization with a copilot license (not copilot studio) can login to the default environment, create agents, and share them indiscriminately. There is no middle ground.
Fuck everything about Microsoft. I really hope that AI kills them.
I've just switched from Windows 10 to Windows 10 IoT LTSC (long term support channel), designed for IoT means there's no AI garbage, game bar and any other crap installed, and I get updates until 2032.
Quite happy with it, after a disastrous experience with Windows 11 that essentially killed my system.
And no, I can't switch to Linux due to company requirements. I work in finance and some of the banks we use operate by hardware tokens that only have Windows drivers.
Every day I'm happier I switched to the penguin
Penguin is a nickname for Linux, just letting people know.
Excuse me, I find that offensive. We are publicly known as “friends of Tux”
but Gaming Copilot silently installed anyway.
Well how else are they going to get training data?
To all the people in this thread hyping Linux. Please remember that those screenshots capture you as well if you play with windows users. If this becomes a staple and you refuse to be AI fodder, then multiplayer is pretty much dead to you.
Could you expand a bit, I understand that their systems are compromised, but how does that provide information to them about you if you play a game together. Unless you are just referring to the information that a server host or your friend would know anyway.
automated screenshots when your username is visible, like player lists or above your character when in front of a compormised player
If that is what was meant, this is nothing new, server hosts have had this information and more for ages, and your gamertag is by no means priveledged information. I am having trouble trying to figure out how this change affects my willingness to play on cross play servers, as others have pointed out however I would be wary of compromised devices with privelidged data like banks or HR which I realistically have no way to protect myself from.
One of the most useless feature I've ever heard of.
At some point tech companies stopped focusing on what customers want/need, and started chasing their own delusions on what the next big thing is that will make them money. Solutions in search of problems, with billions of dollars of hype and marketing behind them. Crypto, NFTs, the metaverse, AI... it's sad to see.
It's not just a tech company thing. Companies are utterly divorced from what customers want now. The only thing that matters is shareholders, and shareholders run on vibes and delusion. From chip makers to coffee makers, if actively pissing off the customers made the stocks go up, they'd do it.
Windows is just malware at this point. No matter how much spyware junk you turn off, there is always more to come in the next update.
Yeah, or simply stuff you uninstalled and they reinstalled it. I have uninstalled Teams several times now.
While I do want to someday have AI pals while gaming, I refuse to have Microsoft be one of them.
pretty soon they're gonna put ai in ai
They're already doing that. It's like nested if statements but LLMs
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