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[Unknown Soldier]

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/03/microsoft-stock-ai-foundry-sales.html

 

[Boo Who?]

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/03/microsoft-stock-ai-foundry-sales.html

 

[Crayon]

We switched to ms at work and the copilot integrated into office seems to be useless.

 

[wolffy66]

No, this will be like video phones or flying cars. It seems futuristic but just doesn't happen.

Video calls certainly happen.

And flying cars are probably gonna happen. I think Musk plans on revealing Teslas sometime soon

 

[Unknown?]

Video calls certainly happen.

And flying cars are probably gonna happen. I think Musk plans on revealing Teslas sometime soon

I meant in the way that it was envisioned. Video phones came out and died. It wasn't until smart phones with apps where it was possible and it only became a thing because it was more applicable than some landline video phone.

Anyway, it probably will be a thing but not how it is currently. Currently, AI doesn't do much for society.

 

[wolffy66]

I meant in the way that it was envisioned. Video phones came out and died. It wasn't until smart phones with apps where it was possible and it only became a thing because it was more applicable than some landline video phone.

Anyway, it probably will be a thing but not how it is currently. Currently, AI doesn't do much for society.

It probably does more already than we know. Peoples jobs are getting replaced by it, it must do something.

I think its done important things like solving protein folding already. I'm sure much more is happening already.

 

[manfestival]

I don't understand this thinking. You are human, are you not? Don't you have the free will to choose whether you want to engage with it or not?

The c-suites who are pushing this right now, in workplaces, are being impulsive, if that's what you're talking about. The arrival of modern AI is just a fashionably convenient and timely event to justify layoffs, after substituting people and their function with AI, to increase the bottom line. They're contributing to a bad work ethic and environment by force pushing this, as far as I'm concerned. Its become a headless chicken race at the expense of their workforce. It has caught some competent people in the cross-fire too. I have a feeling this rush is going to blow back in some places, immensely, like the eventual and careless collapse of General Electric.

Silly human assuming we have free will. Explains why you don't understand.

 

[Hypereides]

Silly human assuming we have free will. Explains why you don't understand.

My bad. I assumed you could think for yourself.

 

[Neon Xenon]

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/03/microsoft-stock-ai-foundry-sales.html

We switched to ms at work and the copilot integrated into office seems to be useless.

Every time I need to open my work email, I have to look at that stupid shit. Thankfully, I can just move along into opening Outlook (for now).

 

[Crayon]

Every time I need to open my work email, I have to look at that stupid shit. Thankfully, I can just move along into opening Outlook (for now).

Nice avatar!!!

 

[Badlucktroll]

 

[Neon Xenon]

Nice avatar!!!

Thanks! The Marauder is my favorite BattleMech, hands down. Used to be the MadCat (only natural, with how many covers it has been on), but after a Tex Talks BattleTech episode on the Marauder, I had to get one in MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries. Which I should get back to at some point.

 

[manfestival]

My bad. I assumed you could think for yourself.

No, we have AI for that.

 

[Crayon]

Thanks! The Marauder is my favorite BattleMech, hands down. Used to be the MadCat (only natural, with how many covers it has been on), but after a Tex Talks BattleTech episode on the Marauder, I had to get one in MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries. Which I should get back to at some point.

Tex!!!

IIIIIIII'm gonna whup somebody's asssss.

 

[winjer]

Windows updates keep breaking, and Microsoft's "agentic OS" isn't helping

Microsoft recently published a baffling support document stating that Windows updates released after July 2025 may break some crucial parts of the operating system's shell. According to the KB5072911 document, File Explorer, the Start menu, and other XAML-dependent apps in Windows may show erratic behavior on some enterprise devices.

The issue affects Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2 releases after installing monthly cumulative updates such as KB5062553 or KB5065789. Consumer devices should be safe for now, as the issue has been identified in a "limited" number of enterprise or managed environments. The bug may occur when Windows updates are installed before the user logs into the OS, forcing some XAML components to behave in unexpected ways.

The Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML) is an XML-based language designed to define UI elements, and it is now an integral part of many application development frameworks such as WPF, WinUI, UWP, and .NET. XAML templates can be created with Visual Studio or other IDEs and are widely used by many components integrated into Windows 11.

The KB5072911 issue related to XAML components can force users in an organization to experience some truly appalling UI behaviors. Shell components such as Explorer.exe may crash or show a black screen, the Start menu may fail to open, and the taskbar may fail to display. Additional issues include the shellhost.exe component crashing, other XAML apps being unable to start, and more.

The new Windows ordeal is caused by applications having a dependency on XAML packages that do not register in time after newer Windows updates have been installed, Microsoft explains. While developers are working on a proper solution, the KB5072911 support document provides some workarounds to get the OS back into a usable state. IT administrators can run a few PowerShell commands or scripts to manually register the missing XAML packages.

Microsoft recently explained that Windows is going to become an agentic OS, with multiple independent AI agents doing their own thing on separate workspaces. Considering the messy conditions the operating system and its shell are in right now, turning AI slop into a "first-class user" may actually push even the most enthusiastic AI fans to admit that Microsoft has gone too far this time.

Many are thinking the obvious, Redmond doesn't treat Windows as a real business priority anymore, and that has become a problem for the entire technology world (except perhaps for proponents of Linux).

Even a dangerous security vulnerability related to LNK files such as CVE-2025-9491, which has been part of major cybercriminal activities and threat actors' modus operandi for years, was recently "solved" without any proper public documentation of the process.

Microsoft is so eager to fire people and replace them with AI, that they managed to screw up Windows this badly....

 

[Bojji]

Windows updates keep breaking, and Microsoft's "agentic OS" isn't helping

Microsoft is so eager to fire people and replace them with AI, that they managed to screw up Windows this badly....

I love this shit. They want to replace people with Ai only to... be forced to hire them back because Ai make errors constantly (hallucinations) and people have to check for them manually, lol.

 

[SHAKEZ]

If they don't get real competition they'll get their way. That's why they don't care.

 

[IlGialloMondadori]

Fuck AI and fuck Microsoft.

 

[executor]

Unfortunately with all the money spent or going to be spent on AI we are being pushed with HVE (High Velocity Engineering....) everywhere.. Work, workflows, OS... Copilot enhanced with MCP servers can do huge mess... And that will not stop. It's being pushed more and more. Everywhere. AI has its use cases and when used properly has value (boring unit tests....done, boring documentation.....done etc) but that is different from the narrative we're getting from big software companies leadership... So I vote for the third options: "Is AI the future of OS ?" "Yes but not by choice"

 

[Sonik]

I love this shit. They want to replace people with Ai only to... be forced to hire them back because Ai make errors constantly (hallucinations) and people have to check for them manually, lol.

Tech morons create AI that deliberately can't say it doesn't know something to keep customers engaged -> AI keeps hallucinating after being forced to answer something, anything -> tech morons use that AI themselves -> It keeps hallucinating and ruining their products

We live in Idiocracy

 

[Bojji]

Tech morons create AI that deliberately can't say it doesn't know something to keep customers engaged -> AI keeps hallucinating after being forced to answer something, anything -> tech morons use that AI themselves -> It keeps hallucinating and ruining their products

We live in Idiocracy

Yeah, world was normal like ~10-15 years ago but now everything is so fucked up. Yesterday my fiance was looking at facebook short videos, 3/4 of them were created by Ai... I still can tell the difference but many people can't (and at some point no one will be able to do that).

 

[pudel]

Tech morons create AI that deliberately can't say it doesn't know something to keep customers engaged -> AI keeps hallucinating after being forced to answer something, anything -> tech morons use that AI themselves -> It keeps hallucinating and ruining their products

...and all that hallucinated nonsense is being scraped up again and again by AI's and again being mixed into their next "predictions" and so on. Just seen from a logical standpoint...this is a death spiral.

 

[rm082e]

Windows updates keep breaking, and Microsoft's "agentic OS" isn't helping

Okay, I want to make sure I have this correct. Per the support document linked in the article, it says:

This might occur when Windows updates are installed prior to:

• First time user logon to persisted OS installation.
• All user logons to a non-persistent OS installation such as a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) or equivalent as application packages must be installed each logon in such scenarios.

Not to say those are nothing, but that sounds like a one-time issue for 99.9% of enterprise users. Also, it says:

IT administrators managing enterprise or virtualized environments should register the missing packages in the user session and restart SiHost to allow Immersive Shell and related components to pick them up.

It then lists the exact steps that an IT Admin would need to perform to resolve the problem. I'm not an IT Admin, but this looks like a 10 minute fix?

I'm all in on the AI hate train. I think it's become a giant waste of time, resources, and it's created an economic bubble that's going to really hurt when it pops. That said, while this is really dumb an certainly surprising, it doesn't sound like it's a huge problem that's going to overwhelm IT departments around the world.

 

[Griffon]

Windows had a decent run. 7 was peak, 10 was its retarded cousin. Bye bye after that.

 

[Valonquar]

I'm all in on the AI hate train. I think it's become a giant waste of time, resources, and it's created an economic bubble that's going to really hurt when it pops. That said, while this is really dumb an certainly surprising, it doesn't sound like it's a huge problem that's going to overwhelm IT departments around the world.

A recent update forced everyone on campus to have to "forget" and re-add our WiFi spot to be able to connect at all and for a week you would have thought the world was ending.