Like virtually every major Windows announcement in the last three years, the spate of features that Microsoft announced for the operating system today all revolve around generative AI. In particular, theyre concerned with the companys more recent preoccupation with “agentic” AI, an industry buzzword for “telling AI powered software to perform a task, which it then does in the background while you move on to other things.” But the overarching impression I got, both from reading the announcemen
