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I've been using Windows since 3.1 and Microsoft stopped making good decisions after XP. They're such a bloated company that they're institutionally incapable of coming up with something new that's good, only doubling down on the things that have brand recognition. I could totally see them do something like make copilot run locally in the way Deepseek does but still charge a subscription fee to unlock half the functionality of Windows 12 with it.
This sounds plausible. They'd still need to strike a balance so they can retain some of the data for training, presumably, so it wouldn't be 100% local? Who knows, they may do something similar with paywalled logic models that require online compute, and then hamstring the local only version. We'll see.
i mean 7 was nice.
7 was inoffensive and I'd go back to it over 11, but I liked Windows 7 because it felt like they undid all the Vista shit to restore Windows XP with a more modernised UI.