Who asked for today's Windows?

From desktop notifications begging you to sign up for Xbox Game Pass to a second chance that makes you feel like you need it Microsoft 365, Windows has a hard time taking "no" for an answer.

In recent years, we've seen Redmond push useless local AI features in an effort to sell everyone Copilot+ PCs they don't need. The company founded by Bill Gates has turned Windows into a spyware, insisting you sign in with a Microsoft account so it can collect more data about you, and convincing you to run Recall, which takes snapshots of your sensitive personal information.

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In an interview with the Windows IT Pro YouTube channel, Microsoft's head of operating systems, Pavan Davuluri , assured users that this will continue.

“I think what human interfaces look like today and what they will look like five years from now is a big area of focus for us, and Windows will continue to evolve,” said Microsoft’s corporate vice president of Windows + Devices. “The operating system is becoming more and more hands-on and multimodal, with voice, vision and touch, just like we use a mouse and keyboard… I think that’s an area of huge investment and change for us.”

So get ready to ditch that old mouse and keyboard and start shouting into your computer. The company is confident that you'll get your work done faster and more accurately by dictating than typing.

According to the company, the use of a touch interface will replace the traditional, graphical user interface with windows... For those who remember, it worked so well in Windows 8.

The big question Microsoft isn't answering is "who asked for all this?"

Who asked for local image creation in Microsoft Paint when there are a million websites, including Bing, that offer it in the cloud?

Who demanded that Artificial Intelligence be integrated into Notepad, a program that people loved for its simplicity?

Who exactly thought of supermarket tabloid-style headlines being integrated into a taskbar widget?

We didn't ask for any of this, but we have it because Windows enjoys the number one market share in operating systems.

So now we will learn to sympathize with a vision designed for us by a company that wants to earn more...

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Although the press releases will range from very select to rare, I said I'd pass...because sometimes the editors hide.