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  • Raining and more rain.

    Today it was raining all day and raining at night – it really didn’t stop until around 2am which by that time was far too late to go for a walk. I decided to stay at home, have some vegetarian chilli for dinner while watching some YouTube videos (the vegetarian chilli would actually go well with mince or firm tofu that is fried and then the chilli mix added to it).

    It looks like the update to Chrome, Edge as well as Safari Technology Preview has been delayed probably either until Friday or maybe next week. It is an indication that if there are security fixes in the next version those issues are either low severity or if they are high severity that there are not active exploits out in the world. There are rumours that the next version of iOS and macOS scheduled to be version 27 will be a a ‘Snow Leopard’ release where the focus is on ‘fit and finish’ where there will be no new features other implementing the AI features talked about at this year’s WWDC. Even at version 26.1 I still see a lot of people complaining about the half finished nature of version 26 which kind of feeds into the narrative that the whole ‘liquid glass’ was something that was hurriedly slapped together at the last minute.

    For me the most disappointing part of the whole Apple M5 refresh is the fact that it didn’t include the N1 chip and still relying on the Broadcom wireless chip lacking WiFi 7 support. It is the year 2025, if you’re shipping WiFi 6 products and you’re charging a premium for your products then what you’re really doing is just ‘taking the piss’. Yeah, I have my laundry list of things I can whinge about regarding Microsoft but holy heck when both Apple and Microsoft are just half assing their product quality and adoption of the latest technologies then it is difficult not to feel negative/pessimistic about the future of technology.

    I remember in the past I used to excited about a new hardware or software release, that there was a leap forward but now I recoil in horror wondering what useless crap they’ve foisted upon the end user (see Microsoft and their ‘agentic OS’ fixation) mean while they cannot get the basics correct (see Safari and the Declarative Net Request API implementation being broken six ways from Sunday). I can deal with features that I may not be interested – plenty of them on my Samsung phone but I just ignore them but when the basics aren’t done well while all the focus is on pointless features then it does raise the blood pressure a bit.

  • Rather uneventful day.

    Finished work tonight, went for my 11.6km walk, jumped in and had a shower and now relaxing in bad watching some YouTube videos. The day so far has been rather uneventful, got up, had brunch, logged into my computer and found that Google hadn’t released an update for Chrome – maybe something happened and it had to be pushed back to Thursday NZ time (Wednesday US time)? I guess we’ll need to wait and see for what happens tomorrow when I check for updates.

    If Microsoft want to know why there is backlash against their whole ‘agentic OS’ idea then here is another article pointing out problems that have been left unaddressed with Microsoft demonstrating via the lack of progress that they actually care about fixing the problem (link). I’ve been lucky enough to not have any of the issues expressed in the article but others have – when you cannot get the basics done well then don’t be surprised there is push back online for dopey ideas such as ‘agentic OS’ – something no body asked for and no body wants other than the insufferable people you hang out with in silicon valley that are completely divorced from the real world.

    On the Microsoft 365 saga and how it has been impossible for me to close the account – it appears that if you cancel a licence that the licence isn’t officially cancelled until the end of the billing cycle. The reason why I bring this up is because when I try to cancel the account it keeps coming back saying that I have an active licence even though all the licences are cancelled on the account.

    I’ve been watching a few YouTube videos of synth music playing to a video montage of photos and videos and there is a feeling of not only nostalgia but also a feeling that there was a time where there was an optimistic vision of the future only for the future to arrive and it has been a giant disappointment. The internet was envisaged as being a way for the world to come together only to find that the optimism about social media has turned into a dystopian hellscape – providing a platform of people to show the worst side of themselves and there being no shame for behaving in such a way then algorithsm amplifying and rewarding such behaviour.

    Products that were exciting have now become boring, what is being launched is filled with crap no one asked for meanwhile said companies can’t even get the basics working. Let’s not get started on the pointless waste of resources and energy the whole AI LLM is going to turn out to be all the while we have an environmental calamity coming our way but silicon valley dude bros have got their head firmly planted up their own backside while they enjoy their yacht that has another yacht inside it along side a sports car that costs more than the average house.

    Oh well, maybe I’m becoming cynical in my old age but the optimistic future seems to be replaced with faux futurism – the illusion of progress without an real meaningful progress. I think a good part of this has to do with neoliberalism – where as in the past the government would engage in big nation building based forward looking vision of where to take the nation where as today what the government now does is little more than managed decline at best and at worst indifference to the fact that things that were taken for granted in the past, eg building public housing, is now marked in the ‘too hard’ basket as politicians come up with elaborate PPP because god forbid the government directly build something for the common good.

  • Three more weeks to go.

    I decided to go all out tonight and go for a 23.2KM walk – I really needed to go for a walk after a lazy day on Monday and after coming back it felt good having accomplished what I wanted. On my walk I like to use it as a time to consolidate my thoughts and plan what I am going to do for the coming week – I’ve decided that going forward what I’m going to do is buy all my groceries online and get it delivered because when I go shopping I buy things I don’t really need (aka ‘junk food’) because I browse where as online I have a list of things I need to purchase and just get those delivered. Three more weeks to go before I go on my two weeks off at the end of the year.

    uBlock Origin Lite 2025.1123.1640 is now in the Chrome extension store – most of the time you should find that the update is transparent and you won’t need to do anything yourself. On Wednesday NZ Time (Tuesday US Time) Chrome 143 will be released and depending on the nature of the security updates (if there are any) then we may see an update for Microsoft Edge but that is unlikely due to Microsoft tending to release the update after Chrome releases their update. Not next week but the week after Microsoft will be releasing patch Tuesday and based on the notes from November it’ll be purely a bug and security fix so don’t expect any new features.

  • Software efficiency: The programmer’s time vs additional overhead.

    A few ideas have been rolling around in my head for quite some time so I thought I may as well put them out there – I could very much be wrong (most likely) but I’ll ‘put them to paper’ then see how embarrassed I am within a few years. A topic that I see regular come up in conversionsations is in regards to software quality, performance, memory usage and general efficiency is the lamenting over how ‘inefficient’ modern software is while waxing poetically about ‘the good old days’ (while ignoring back in the ‘good old days’ the same accusations of ‘inefficiency’ was levelled at the very software that people today consider efficient) how the software was more efficient. The whole discussion reminds me years ago learning about the different generations of programming languages and how with each generation the underlying technology is abstracted which enabled portability, removed the need to manually manage memory and a lot more in the name allowing the programmer to be more efficient with their time.

    The benefit of abstracting the complexity away means that programmers can focus on functionality that end users want rather than spending large amounts of time dealing with issues that for the end user they’ll never see. It is no different than abstracting away version management to an intelligent piece of software that keeps track of source code, changes, associating changes with bug reports and who is assigned to take care of said functionality being added or bug being fixed. Abstracting complexity away and allowing the computer to take care of the details makes programmers more efficient – freeing up time so that they can focus on their work rather than having to spend that time on ‘house keeping’.

    Apple for example created Objective-C 2.0 garbage collection but it was only available on macOS but that then was replaced with Automatic Reference Counting which was available on all platforms (for Swift and Objective-C) – all the benefits of abstraction without the overhead associated with it. Another good example of abstraction is Grand Central Dispatch to make concurrency easier (the functionality has been ported to other operating systems) – the rough equivalent of that would be Thread Pools on Windows. We moved from a situation of single cores and dual cores to now we’re in a world where on my laptop I’ve got 12 cores. Most applications were single threaded or limited in the number of threads being used because of the added complexity and at the time it make much sense because there was limited benefit given most were just running dual core or maybe quad core. The problem is that if you want to deliver more performance and responsiveness thus a better experience for your end users then it will require you to make greater use of threads to make use of extra cores. The solution? hand some of that complexity off to the system to take care of.

    When it comes to AI and LLM it makes me wonder whether the direction over moving to Java and .NET with garbage collection, just in time compiling etc. is being overshadowed by new memory safe languages such as Rust and Swift along with in the future the use of AI and LLM for C/C++ code based being able to traverse large amounts of source code then establish relationships between parts of the code base to then pick up the sort of issues such as memory bugs that result in security vulnerabilities. I personally I don’t see ‘vibe coding’ replacing programmers but what I do is AI and LLM being used to make programmers more productive because they’re not having to spend their time doing ‘housing keeping’.

    I bring this up because there is a big push by many within the technology space to make data centres a lot more efficient – yes, there is the environmental benefits but there is also benefits to the bottom line with less power being used and more profit being made. The benefits of abstraction means you don’t have to deal with a whole heap of things you’d have to hand code but that abstraction sometimes comes with an overhead cost – for the end user the difference isn’t probably that noticeable but if you’re running a large data centre that overhead can be measured. There was a great comparison a few years ago comparing Perl, Python, Java, .NET and a few other frameworks/languages when compared to modern languages like Swift and Rust – the differences were staggering and that was with the using the latest techniques such as Python with Just In Time compilation which certainly improves performance but there is still the matter of the overhead of using a JIT model.

  • A really good start to the weekend.

    I went to sleep last night, slept in until around 12 noon, woke up, had something to eat for lunch then headed down the road to pick up a few essentials and then got in contact with mum regarding what was happening. Had a chat with mum and it turns out that my sister had he account hacked and money emptied but thankfully she got onto it quickly so hopefully it’ll be tracked down. It appears that the money was transferred to a one of those new fintech bank accounts which isn’t surprising because where I work in my day job customers who were hacked the money was sent through to the same fintech that operates in Australia – maybe the hacking scene is related? a coordinated scamming launched at multiple targets from different backgrounds but done by the same group of people.

    Funny enough, the chicken I was going to have for dinner I ended up taking to mum’s and we had that with some baked potatoes and salad along with a berry apple crumble with ice cream for desert. On the way hope I picked up some groceries – the sort of items that would have been difficult to carry home myself. Normally if I’m unable to get a ride with mum or my sister I’ll just order it online and get it delivered because the cost of delivery is roughly the same amount it would be if I did the grocery shopping in two trips (to spread the burden over to trips).

    I’ve decided that what I’ll be doing is 5 days of walking then followed by two days of relaxing – being able to enjoy those two day of really allows me to recover for the 5 days of walking I do after work each day. Had a great day and I guess it is a habit I need to get out of which is punishing myself because god forbid I want some time off to rest and relax – trying to get rid of a life time of bad habits and embrace moderation.

    uBlock Origin Lite version 2025.1123.1640 has been released – waiting for it to appear in the Chrome and Edge store however it ready now in the Apple App Store. It is amazing how Apple does a pretty good job at getting it approved a lot faster than Google and Microsoft. I updated y mum’s computers and my sister’s as well – I’ve decided it would be best to keep them on the previous version of macOS and iOS until version 26.2 is released which, by that time, should be pretty stable.

    A great interview of Yanis Varoufakis by Tom Nicholas – it is interesting how the feudal lords and landed gentry had their power come from the land that they owned but it appears that the feudal lords of today in this age of neo feudalism the idea of ‘land’ is virtual in terms of platforms in a virtual space where like in the past the seek rent from those who toil ‘the land’ in the virtual world where the feudal lord take a cut (in the form of data) and the ‘peasants’ pay the lord for that privilege. Then again if you’ve been following technology for the last 30+ years like I have then you’ve lived through the major leap forwards with each generation to now silicon valley mega corporations are stumbling around trying to find the next growth opportunity. The problem is that these attempts have fallen flat – the metaverse and AR/VR headsets no one cared about because such virtual worlds already existed in the form of Second Life which had a limited audience, wearable devices like glasses are rejected because they’re expensive and they make you look like a dork, AI services that are losing money even on the most expensive plan with many experts pointing to LLMs are limited by design no matter how many data centres and data you throw at the problem and that doesn’t even start on the fixation on autonomous vehicles because god forbid we tax these damn corporations to build a decent mass transit city for metro as well as intercity transportation (there is already autonomous trains).

    Daily writing prompt
    Name your top three pet peeves.
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    Here are my three plus a bonus one because I like to rebel against the system.

    1. The mixture of ignorance and arrogance – it is one thing to be ignorance, we’re all (including myself) are ignorant of something(s) but it is made worst when it is married with arrogance. The whole ‘influencer culture’ and the ‘prodcast bro culture’ being two examples of such behaviour.
    2. If you’re stating an opinion then don’t phrase in a way that it makes it sound as though you’re making a declarative statement – if is your opinion then make it clear it is your opinion, don’t phrase it in a way that gives the impression that you’re stating a fact or otherwise you’ll come off sound arrogant.
    3. If you don’t know the answer or the topic al that well then there is nothing wrong with saying “I don’t know” or “I haven’t looked into it” – there is nothing wrong with saying you don’t have an opinion on something or are indifferent. it appears that these days apparently you’re meant to have an opinion on everything even if you’ve never glanced at the topic in your life.
    4. Boot lickers and those who defend millionaires and billionaires as if they’re going to receive a silver dollar as a reward for their sycophancy – people who convince themselves that they’re temporarily embarrassed capitalists who are just one step away from being ‘wealthy’ then spend a good portion on their life defending millionaires and billionaires online while voting for policies that harm themselves but they’re convinced that one day when they become rich they will benefit from those policies.

  • Back into the weekend.

    The weekend has finally arrived – finished work today then went for my nightly walk and picked a couple of sandwiches for dinner then came back home, watched some videos while eating dinner. It was a long week but I think this coming week will be a lot easier – getting back into the routine of going for a walk each night. After having not doing it for almost two weeks can be difficult because the temptation of doing nothing is a lot stronger than my desire to want to exercise but that being said I like the benefits that come from regular exercise.

    Qualcomm has release a control panel (you’ll need to install the latest .NET runtime because it depends on it) which also includes the ability to update the GPU driver (link) which has a slight performance improvement although WDDM 3.2 isn’t supported. It’ll be interesting to see whether with the release of the Qualcomm X2 whether there will be a GPU driver upgrade that’ll cover both the X and X2 – I guess we’ll need to see what happens when the laptops start shipping next year which is the rumoured time which falls inline with the release of Windows 11 26H2 where new hardware support is added (it’ll be interesting to see whether the release of Panther Lake will result in FRED support being added to the Windows NT Kernel/HAL).

    When it comes to politics I tend to avoid hopium (like copium but for hope) because all too often the narrative in the media tends to not be reflective of the mood out in the real world. There is a lot of stories in the media regarding the impact of Trump’s policies, the negative impact of those policies but I can’t help but get the feeling we’ve been here before when John Kerry ran for president and a lot of noise in the media about how unpopular George W Bush was but as we all know he was voted in for a second term. As cliched as it sounds, the only poll that matters is on election day (in the mid terms) because that shows not only the number of people who are unhappy (or happy) with the status quo but also how much of the population is motivated (either by anger or support for the status quo) to turn out to vote.

    On a side note, I find it funny how the liberal pundits are twisting themselves into a pretzel trying to explain away Zohran Mamdani’s win in the election – it is amazing how these people must get paid to avoid the most obvious explanation in favour of coming up with long winded excuses. The simple fact of the matter is that Zohran Mamdani won because he talked about the ‘meat and potatoes’ issues, the ‘bread and butter’ issues, the kitchen table and pocket book issues. If there is something that Democrats need to take away from Zohran Mamdani’s win that can be taken nationally it is the laser focus on the issues that matter to people regardless of their background – don’t get bogged down in boutique identity politics issues and push back when Republicans try to change the topic back to culture wars by dragging the conversation back to ‘meat and potatoes’ issues that matter to the overwhelming majority of the electorate.

  • Almost there, one day to go.

    Another day at work and then went for a my usual walk. I really do love this time of year, not too hot, not too cold, a cool breeze, things aren’t too chaotic around where I live and I’m looking forward to a few work get togethers over the next couple of weeks and then my holiday starts on 15 December where I’ll enjoy two weeks off. On my walk I was thinking about taking a week off in June next year over the WWDC – it’ll be interesting to see what the focus will be – maybe we’ll be lucky and everyone has realised that the AI hype was over the top and the industry finally gets back to dealing with the issues that end users want addressed instead of saying AI related gibberish to increase their stock price.

    I couldn’t be bothered watching Real Time with Bill Maher – when you can’t even get the facts straight when talking about a group of Democratic politicians saying to those working in defence that they don’t have to obey an illegal order (link), why should I waste my time watching your show? Btw, within the defence force you don’t need to be a legal expert but there is a chain of command, processes to fallow and outside groups that can provide free legal advise so his ridiculous scenario he gave of a 21 year old in the Overtime segment of is show is, quite frankly, a load of crap and he should feel ashamed for putting out such nonsense in the first place.

    I was watching a video regarding the iPad Pro and the video presenter was complaining how it isn’t a Mac replacement – for some reason he has convinced himself that if Apple doesn’t give him what he wants then Apple has let him down rather than it being the fact that the device was never designed for is use case in the first place. I hate to be the bearer of bad news but the iPad Pro isn’t a drop in replacement for the Mac because they cater for difference audiences. First thing off I have to point out, the term ‘Pro’ lost any real meaning years ago when it pretty much became sort hand for “this has all the bells and whistles that the standard version lacks” not that it is designed for ‘professionals’ (who is considered a professional and what a professional needs is like asking how long a piece of string is).

    The iPad is designed to be an appliance, a device for the every man who simply wants a computer where they can turn it on, do what they want and then turn it off. The audience for an iPad is someone who wants a device that enables them to do a set of tasks but abstracts the details away and with that abstraction comes a lack of power and flexibility by virtue of enabling such power flexibility invariably means adding complexity – something the target audience doesn’t want to deal with. Long story short, the iPad is for your mum, your brother who wants something they can check out the football scores, your nana who likes sending emails and keeping in contact with her knitting group on Facebook.

  • Two more days to go.

    Work today was uneventful and after all that I went for my usual 11.6km walk which funny enough I did quicker than 1 hour and 50 minutes. I received a text message from my doctor regarding a 3 monthly blood test to keep track of how things are progressing to ensure that there isn’t any spike in blood sugar numbers. I’m unsure how much of a regular thing it’ll be but it is good to keep track of ones health. As my doctor noted, there are a whole heap of downstream problems that come from high blood sugar so it is best to get it under control. For my numbers my hba1c went from 89 to 42 and then to 37 with my personal goal being that I’d like to get it down to the low end of the thirties or even the high twenties which will get me in a health normal range with enough head room.

    I’m getting myself back in a routine, taking each day one at a time – getting back to having a walk every night and although it has taken a bit of effort to be motivated to get out of the house after working all day I have to admit that afterwards I feel a whole lot better. I’m going to get really focused on getting back on track and then not next week but the week after I’ll go in for my blood test – I don’t see any major change because I’m feeling pretty good at the moment.

    I saw a video of Paul Thurrott regarding the whole debate online in response to a Microsoft executive talking about making Windows an agentic OS.

    I have to disagree with Paul although I do agree there are people who will fight tooth and nail against any progress there are legitimate issues being raised with many at the end of the tether because they’ve been saying the same thing for years and just being ignored by Microsoft. There is a push back to Microsoft AI fixation because ever since Windows 8, Microsoft has clearly decided that the concerns of the user base play second fiddle to what ever happened to the the latest trend of the moment. Touch screens for example being the archetype of faux futurism where Microsoft hoped that a touch first user interface would spur on greater sales yet here we are years later and the overwhelming majority of computers don’t have a touch screen and end users went through a whole lot of disruptive pain for nothing worthwhile. Then the two releases per year under Windows 10 with ‘Windows as a service’ (a great idea in theory assuming you’re not dealing with a spaghetti code mess but instead everything is clean and modular) where a small prayer was required before installing an update in a hope that the software gods will bless oneself with a stable platform and nothing broken. When people look at Windows 7 as a ‘golden age’ it wasn’t that people are saying Windows 7 was perfect but it did get the basics done well and just got out of your way to allow you to use your computer with minimal disruption.

    The issue isn’t about new features, the issue is about the misplaced priorities with Windows 11 for example being released in October 2021 and here we are 4 years later, very little progress on the UI in consistencies (see inconsistencies regarding dark mode as one example), the Windows Settings introduced in Windows 10 release 10 years ago and they still haven’t gotten rid of the Control Panel or clearly lay out any sort of road map regarding dealing with legacy components of Windows. That doesn’t even touch on things such as the MAX_PATH limitation where you can enable long path names but Windows Explorer (for example) doesn’t support path names longer than 256 characters. If these issues were addressed (and more) or being addressed in a timely manner than most users would view this whole AI thing as something they would disable or just ignore (assuming it doesn’t keep pestering them) but when power users and developers see the basics not being done well mean while all the focus is on features very few people give a flying continental about then it shouldn’t be surprising that people online are voicing their concerns via the modern day equivalent of writing a letter to the editor.

    Daily writing prompt
    What are your two favorite things to wear?
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    My two favourite items of clothing are zip up hoodies and hoodies in general along with Dickies trousers with the double patch on the knee. I prefer to have my clothing baggy and comfortable – even when I was slimmer I still preferred baggy clothes because I found fitting clothing too restrictive and rather uncomfortable. Oh, and heavy cotton shirts I also like – not a fan of cotton shirts that are thin, feels like I’m going to rip the shirt if I look at it the wrong way. Oh, while we’re at it, I do like skate shoes – preferably black or a dark colour.

  • Going on three days.

    Keeping on track with the third day going for a walk – I decided to spice it up a bit and change where I walked tonight. It is good to make changes so then it isn’t the same old same old. Taking each day at a time and set goals that are achievable rather than having massive aspirations, fail to achieve them and then feel bad about not achieving those goals that weren’t really all that attainable. It is about finding a middle ground, moderation if you will, rather than swinging from one extreme to another – from binge to austerity then binge again, attempting to undo a lifetime of bad habits and conditioning but reprogramming oneself is easier said that done.

    Samsung has released the November 2025 update for their S25 Ultra – the size is around 569.89MB and it took only a couple of minutes or so to download then install. After rebooting I checked for the October 2025 Google Play Services update but nothing came through – stuck on September 2025 but then again an update may come in the next few days so I guess I’ll need to wait and see what happens. The kernel has been updated where it has the same linux 6.6.77 kernel which indicates to me that there weren’t major updates other than security fixes. One UI 8.5 is being worked on at the moment with reports that it’ll be based on Android 16 QPR2 with the focus by Samsung to bring about a release schedule that’ll line up with the Android QPR (Quarterly Platform Release) schedule.

    In a follow up to the post I made yesterday about the fall out regarding the whole ‘agentic OS’ fiasco, Microsoft responds in the only way out of touch silicon valley types can respond – telling end users that they’re ignorant rubes who don’t understand how wonderful their vision for the future is. At this point they sound like religious zealots convincing you that they have the truth and the reason you don’t accept it isn’t because what they’re telling you as a load of crap but rather because some super natural force is stopping your from accepting it.

    All I can say is this, Apple must be pretty happy right about now knowing they’ve side stepped the whole unfolding situation in the AI world (or more specifically the LLM segment of the AI market) but then again Apple put out a white paper note too long ago regarding the limitations with the LLM approach. I can’t help but get the feeling that when Apple makes a entrance in the AI world it’ll be off the back off a new approach – meanwhile they can pay Google for their Gemini model, improve Siri and take their time so then at least using Gemini will mean they won’t lag behind the competition.

  • It felt good getting back into a routine.

    I finished work then headed off for a 11.6km power walk which I did in around 1 hour and 50 minutes then I arrived home, had a big glass of cool water then jumped into the shower. I love this time of the year where it isn’t too hot and you can go for a walk with tracksuit pants and a t-shirt with the temperature just at that right level of warmth where it is warm enough to wear a t-shirt but not too warm to the point you end up sweating profusely. I guess I’m lucky in that I go for my walk after 10pm when the day starts cooling down at around 8pm

    I was reading through the fall out from the ‘announcing Windows is becoming an agentic OS’ that was posted on X/Twitter only for the head of Windows to hear people, to put it politely, voicing their concerns about the future direction of Windows. It appears that Microsoft have learned nothing from the Windows Vista and Windows 8 debacle – if you lose the tech enthusiasts, who also are product boosters (see NPS and the role that customers who are ‘promoters’ play in promoting your brand), then you lose your ability to win over the non-tech savvy audience who make up the majority of consumers out there. The tech enthusiasts tend to be the ‘friend whose good with computers’ and what they have to say carries weight – you lose them then you lose their willingness to advocate on behalf of your company to their friends and family.

    Well, after receiving constructive criticism he then took onboard the feedback and made the appropriate changes…ah ha, I almost got you, nope, they didn’t change direction but instead paid lip service that Microsoft was listening and then double down on the idea that as end users we’re idiots and we need masterful geniuses such as the head of Windows to take it upon himself to make those critical decisions and lead us to the promise land of features we didn’t know we needed. I’d love to meet the people he apparently talks to who are demanding this agentic OS vision he has because survey after survey show that consumers don’t care about AI (only 7% of phone users consider it to be a factor when purchasing a phone) so who is demanding what they’re pushing? an example of shoving something down a customer’s throat relentlessly and then eventually they’ll give in and embrace it?

    I can see that they’re working on improving the user interface consistency, making the system more reliable regarding drivers and trying to move things into the user space where possible but ultimately they’ll have to start to deliver on this promises then maybe then their most loyal fans will star to cut them some slack. When neglected the core competencies of your operating system then it shouldn’t be surprising that there are a sizeable number of enthusiasts who see this fixation regarding AI and agentic operating system as a distraction from what Microsoft should be focusing on – making sure they get the basics done well before branching out into other areas.