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Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings (www.cnet.com)
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"We set out to solve one of the most common frustrations we hear — finding and changing settings on your PC — using the power of AI agents," Navjot Virk, corporate vice president of Windows Experiences at Microsoft, said in a blog post on Tuesday. "An agent uses on-device AI to understand your intent and with your permission, automate and execute tasks."

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[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 13 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

They broke alt tab.

That's how fucking inept they are

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

You brought back an old, old memory of reading a Dave Barry novel about computers. In it, he describes going to a Microsoft convention in which they introduced, IIRC, Windows 95; while describing the taskbar, they apparently touted "no more alt+tab!"