At Microsoft, this transformation is currently happening in a few different areas, with agents like Cortana, applications like SwiftKey and Office 365, and developer tools and platforms like the Cortana Intelligence Suite and the Azure cloud computing platform.
As for agents, Nadella noted that the ambition here is to create an intelligent assistant that “can take text input, can take speech input, that knows your deeply. It knows your context, your family, your work. It knows about the world.” He also stressed that this agent will have to be unbounded and available on every platform and in every application — even those not controlled by Microsoft.
TC – Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on how AI will transform his company
No thanks.
You can put me on the list of “I am going to stop using Windoze” computer users. I guess I has start looking around for programs to replace my windoze only ones.
*edited – Violation of comment policy.
Singularity!! When humans and machines merge. (see Google’s Ray Kurzweil)
In other words: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE!!
Looks like there is a fight going on to become the Biggest Brother of All … MS and Google competing for first place.
I have every machine here dual boot (OpenSuSE Tumbleweed (OST) / Win10) and most things I do using Win10 (everything?) can be accomplished with OST. Especially when one uses the great Packman repos there’s a wealth of apps which complement the already enormous amounts of apps in OST. On a sidenote: found OST to be pretty stable although I admittedly don’t run a business or webserver or the like. I’m just a home user surfing, using mail, doing some multimedia stuff (incl. some very basic audio and photo editing, not even movie editing. Recently I got playing my BluRays working in OST so I guess that if need be I can say goodbye to Windows.
Everybody contributing here and of course, especially Eric,thanks for all your efforts here.
I’ve switched up. In the past, on my everyday machine, I run a Windows host and a Debian guest in a virtual machine. Simply fed up, I’ve turned the key. Now I run a Debian host and a Windows guest in my virtual machine. If I can get it to work, I’ll run Windows under a Whonix Gateway. I’m to the point that I rarely log into Windows now. Sayonara Microsoft.