Microsoft teases the future of Windows: ‘The computer will be able to see what we see, hear what we hear, and we can talk to it’
- Microsoft vice-president for operating system safety provided Windows vision in 2030
- It will be multimodal and will imply “more to speak to our computers”
- AI will feed the ability to “do much more sophisticated things”
Have you ever wondered what the windows look like at the turn of the decade, when 2030 takes place?
Windows Central discovered a video clip downloaded from Microsoft’s YouTube channel in which its business vice-president for operating system safety, David Weston, provides Windows vision in 2030 (you can look at it below).
In the short interview, Weston provides answers to certain defined questions which are mainly on the subject of security (without surprise, since it is its expertise), AI, jobs and the business world. He addresses the title of the video at some point, and gives us his reflections on the appearance of the Windows at the end of the decade.
Weston observes: “I think we will do less with our eyes and more talk to our computers. And I really believe that a future version of Windows and other Microsoft operating systems will interact in a multimodal way.”
“The computer will be able to see what we see, hear what we hear, and we can talk to him and ask him to do much more sophisticated things. I think it will be a much more natural form of communication.”
Weston adds: “The world of submission and shot will feel as foreign as in Gen-Z to use MS-DOS.”
A large part of the rest of the video discusses AI and jobs, as mentioned, and how we can expect the AI to take control of grunts to free us from humans to perform more interesting and creative tasks (or it is long -standing theory anyway).
And indeed, how the future security experts will be AI robots with whom you will interact like a real person, speak to them in cats and video meetings, or emails to give them tasks.
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Analysis: Farfu?
For me, it does not look like a vision of Windows in five years (well, it’s closer to four if we want to be cick, and me), but much further than that. Although Weston suggests that this is a broader vision of a “future version of Windows”, and I get the essential: the future is “multimodal” – moving away from the mouse and the simple keyboard as the main entries for the PC – and, of course, everything is built around AI (naturally).
Will the future of Windows be like that, however? I certainly do not bet against the fact that it focuses strongly on the AI, because it seems to be the case. In general, AI feels like an almost irresistible force in terms of place where computers are heading, and Microsoft clearly tries to blur more in Windows wherever it can – a path with which the software giant will undoubtedly in advance.
Today, I wrote on clues hidden in the background of Windows 11 which suggest that another AI agent could come in the taskbar in the desktop bone. This possible addition would live alongside the agent already presented to the parameters application, which is an intelligent addition.
With powerful NPUs potentially planned to be soon included in office fleas, as well as in Copilot +laptops, AI should become much more widespread in the world of PCs fairly quickly. I would even go so far as to guess that the next version of Windows will not be Windows 12, but Windows Ai (or Copilot windows maybe, if it is always the brand for AI), the accent on this arena is probably as strong.
There are promises, high ideas and marketing around AI, however – and then the reality of what Microsoft can achieve. Remember when Copilot was presented for the first time at Windows 11? We were told that it would be able to modify a strip of parameters in the operating system according to a vague guest of the user (as “give me more productive”). It has still not happened and seems to be firmly on the rear burner.
This means that even if I have no doubt that Microsoft has these great ambitions, if a very different way of working with a Windows PC will occur in 2030 seems to me.
Admittedly, I can indeed imagine that to speak – give vocal commands (which present themselves well in Windows 11) – could become a much more important, but always additional part, part of the experience and interface of Windows. And the AI (probably) doing more sophisticated things, yes, fairly fair – perhaps even manipulating the window settings in one stroke at the user’s demand will be realized in a way that works well.
Hey, maybe Windows Ai, or Windows 2030, or whatever it ends up being called, will finally get rid of the inherited control panel, as a commentator on Weston’s video observes it in a funny way. HAH – It makes me dizzy to imagine it. This is a battle that Microsoft has been fighting for too long, after all,
But a use of the mouse and the keyboard is considered to be the equivalent that we are forced to return to the back era, all the text files and to tinker with the config.sys and autorexec.bat files to operate a PC game? It looks like more than one stretch, and something much, much further in the IT chronology of Windows – but I could be wrong.
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