Much AI About Nothing ⭐
When Windows lead Pavan Davuluri tweeted about a session he was headlining at Ignite 2025 this past week, he was confronted by a nearly endless stream of hate, small-mindedness, and change aversity. But when Windows lead Pavan Davuluri opened that very session on Thursday, the message he and his colleagues delivered didn’t rise to the controversy. In fact, now I’m even more confused by all the hate, small-mindedness, and change aversity. You can watch the session for yourself if you’re bored, though you’ll have to stream it, as I couldn’t find a downloadable version. You should watch Agents at Work: Windows Powers the Era of Intelligent Productivity. That session features two of the people who presented at Davuluri’s session and is arguably a bit more detailed look at some of the same content. Either way, what you will learn is that Microsoft is evolving Windows, as it does, to meet the needs of the latest technology shift, in this case, AI. This follows a natural progression, Davuluri said, that’s occurred over the 40 years that Windows has been available, alongside previous technological milestones like the GUI, the web, mobility, and the cloud. I argue that AI is a far more natural fit for Windows than the cloud: As a desktop operating system, Windows is the obvious place for Microsoft to add platform-level capabilities like those Microsoft showed off at Ignite. I can’t explain why Davuluri’s innocuous tweet generated so much drama. But I can explain what it is that he and others communicated about how Windows is evolving to take on agentic AI capabilities. And I can do it without any drama. It just doesn’t warrant it. Copilot is just a front-end app for cloud AI services and agents are simply background processes. For Copilot and agents to interact with the apps we use on Windows-Microsoft apps like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, but also any third-party apps-those apps need to be updated so that they can be controlled at a programmatic level. I have yet to find a good term for this, but this functionality is just a continuation or extension of the Share capabilities in Windows in which apps can broadcast their compatibility with specific file and data types and then be made available as a Share target. It’s also a thematic descendant of Copy and Paste, COM/COM+, and other means of cross-app and cross-PC interactions. Using these new agentic capabilities is opt-in, so it’s up to IT (in businesses) and users (everywhere) to decide if and when to use them. Full stop. This is the fact that ends the “should I hate this thing?” flowchart that triggered all the knee-jerk reaction to Davuluri’s tweet. If you don’t want to use this stuff, you don’t have to. Because typing can be tedious, Copilot has been updated with Voice capabilities that allow users to interact with it and the agents coming to Windows using natural language. This, too, is not controversial. It will not replace other i. The post Much AI About Nothing ⭐ appeared first on Thurrott. com. Continue reading Much AI About Nothing ⭐
