"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."

Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings

Microsoft says the new AI agents can find and change settings for users when given a natural language command.

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Ah Christ. We’ve collectively regressed so much in computer knowledge that people can’t even find a settings menu? Even I have trouble believing that one.

"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."

Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings

Microsoft says the new AI agents can find and change settings for users when given a natural language command.

CNET (www.cnet.com)

The last time finding settings in Windows was straight forward was Windows 95. Since the stupid dumbed down 'settings' app was vomited upon us, it has been nearly impossible to find the thing you know is there but has now been renamed and moved, and isn't even indexed in the settings app search bar.

"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."

Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings

Microsoft says the new AI agents can find and change settings for users when given a natural language command.

CNET (www.cnet.com)

What is “half baked dog shit” about it?

The fact that they're moving things over slowly instead of just fucking finishing it before they deploy it all at once. They've been doing this since Windows 10 came out, they have a trillion dollars. There's no excuse to have it be half assed for so long especially considering "Settings" isn't even an improvement.

What was easier to find in the control panel than it is in settings?

Literally everything? You don't have to click through 14 different menus to drill down to what you're looking for. It's all on one window in Control Panel. Just look at Devices and Printers in Control Panel vs. Devices in settings or Programs and Features vs. Apps and features the newer versions have far less information available at a glance.

You’ve never actually used windows 11, have you?

I use it every day on my work PC. It runs like ass.

"Hey Copilot. Delete yourself, Recall and all other bloatware from my system. Thank you."

Holy shit.

Your ux SUCKS SO MUCH, that instead of making it not shitty.....

You developed AI for it?

Are you fucking kidding me

How inept are these developers

The registry never has and never will be simple nor usable. Windows is rotten to the core.

Have you tried to configure gnome beyond what is offered in its GUI ?

Copilot: "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that"

Copilot: "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that"

"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."

Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings

Microsoft says the new AI agents can find and change settings for users when given a natural language command.

CNET (www.cnet.com)

They broke alt tab.

That's how fucking inept they are

In what way?

Multiple ways

• there was an update that meant alt-tab brought you a black screen
• there was another one that meant it didn't tab between the two most recent windows, but brought up a selection. They tried to tout this as a feature you had to turn off

So one is a bug, and another is a feature I actually use everyday. Did you mean the selection prevents you from quickly changing between recent windows? I don't remember it actually slowing down my switching at all.