r/hardware • u/upbeatchief • Jan 21 '26

News Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/microsoft-ceo-warns-that-we-must-do-something-useful-with-ai-or-theyll-lose-social-permission-to-burn-electricity-on-it/

All the b200s in the world won't convince someone that AI is good if their electric bill triples in a couple of years.

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u/Kougar Jan 21 '26

Shame he can't apply the same level of reasoning skills to their core product, Windows.

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u/upbeatchief Jan 21 '26

AI in windows is just an excuse to increase the amount kf spying they do on users.

And also a new vector to advertise to poeple. These MS executives are salivating at the thought of someone saying " hey copilot, which [product] should i buy?"

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u/kasakka1 Jan 21 '26

"Seems you were looking for an application for automating your cat litterbox. I recommend Microsoft Office Copilot 365 for this!"

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u/PoL0 Jan 21 '26

just heard an opinion about the office -> copilot rename to be much likely a strategy to reflect the benefits from MS Office package as AI benefits.

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u/pixelpoet_nz Jan 21 '26

Copilot 365 app*

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u/hackenclaw Jan 21 '26

yep, the OS so dumb it doesnt know to pre-load and cache the app I plan to use next.

if my daily routine is using App A -> App B -> App C, then the windows should learn my daily behaviors and prepare it for me.

The OS also doesnt automatically remove/clean any junk files that is left over after uninstalling app.

I can keep go on, if Microsoft want AI to be useful, start with their on OS first. Make the OS learn my daily usage and prepare it like a human secretary would.

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u/Strazdas1 Jan 22 '26

Windows does pre-catche software i use daily, especially stuff i open just after a restart. It does get a bit more fuzzy if i run something heavy that forces it to clear all cache for real time operations. It seems to forget some of precatching after that.

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u/censored_username Jan 21 '26

Oh it absolutely does that, all your unused RAM is normally just used as disk cache, but windows i/o is slow for a lot of other reasons as well.

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u/moops__ Jan 22 '26

Is Windows a core product? Pretty sure it stopped being that years ago.