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Microsoft plans to replace Windows with Copilot in the Aion project

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A leak reveals Microsoft's 2024 "Project Aion," a prototype OS where Copilot is central. This system abandons the Start Menu and local apps in favor of a dialog-driven interface that controls the machine. The UI centers on goals rather than apps, thanks to an internal engine named Silverstone. The major innovation is "Spaces," which groups applications and websites related to the same project. Despite an innovative approach, this project might be only experimental. What do you think about this radical direction for Microsoft’s OS?
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    Didi64_549 Posted messages 2835 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention  
     

    Hello,

    You’re announcing a topic about an internal prototype, a simple Microsoft experiment like many others, and Microsoft has never said it wants to delete local apps.

    Wherefore, your article is just about an internal prototype that is sometimes seen as labs within large companies, but Microsoft remains a great explorer of avenues for the future of Windows indeed.

    See you later.

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    1. brucine Posted messages 24901 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   4 177
       

      Hello,

      We don’t see anyone exploring future Windows paths besides Microsoft.

      It’s been a long time since Microsoft has considered eliminating locally installed apps; Microsoft 365 is only one version of this, where the user would be signed in online.

      This model is presented as a simplification where everyone only has access to what they use, and it is a bit hypocritical: in fact, it consists of offering the user a certain number of features by subscription.

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      1. Didi64_549 Posted messages 2835 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   > brucine Posted messages 24901 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention  
         

        Hi again,

        Everyone knows that Microsoft 365 is a cloud-based subscription.

        The user would be online, which is already the case for Windows 11, Microsoft Store, etc...

        And in their product Microsoft regularly publishes prototypes.

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      2. brucine Posted messages 24901 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   4 177 > Didi64_549 Posted messages 2835 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention  
         

        But before votes that bring nothing to the discussion and that as usual have no sense, whether negative or positive, everyone apparently does not know that outside of Office Microsoft has long been flirting with the idea of transforming a local use not only of its software but also of Windows itself into a usage on demand online, as seen for example there, but there are even older documents to this effect.

        https://infohightech.com/microsoft-veut-faire-passer-windows-entierement-dans-le-cloud/

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      3. Didi64_549 Posted messages 2835 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   > brucine Posted messages 24901 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention  
         

        Re,

        What needs to be voted on?

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      4. brucine Posted messages 24901 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   4 177 > Didi64_549 Posted messages 2835 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention  
         

        obviously nothing, for my part I have never voted in one direction or the other and I never will.

        It seems that it is the opposable thumb (not the pointing index) that is at the origin of human development and this includes its cognitive abilities compared to the rest of the animal kingdom.

        Substituting a vote for a discussion or for enriching it is the zero degree of this discussion and a way to escape argumentation or to be deprived of it, so in a way a return to a social behavior more primitive.

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