- Microsoft’s VP for us Security has given its vision of Windows by 2030
- It will be multimodal and involve ‘more talk to our computers’
- AI will allow to ‘do much more sophisticated things’
Have you ever wondered how Windows will be by the decade’s decade when 2030 rolls around?
Windows Central discovered a video clip that was uploaded on Microsoft’s YouTube channel, where its company’s VP for us Security, David Weston, gives its vision for Windows in 2030 (you can see it below).
In the short interview, Weston delivers answers to some regular questions that are mostly about the security topic (surprisingly, considering that it is his expertise), AI, Jobs and Business World. However, he addresses the title of the video at some point and gives us his thoughts on what Windows can look like at the end of the decade.
Weston notes, “I think we will do less with our eyes and more talk to our computers. And I really think 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 it and ask it to do much more sophisticated things. I think it will be a much more natural form of communication.”
Weston adds: “The world of mouse around and writing will feel as strange as it makes for gen-z to use MS-DOS.”
Much of the rest of the video discusses AI and Jobs, as mentioned, and how we can expect AI to take over Grynt work to free us humans to perform more interesting and creative tasks (or it is still the long -lasting theory).
And in fact, how future security experts will be AI bots that you interact with like a real person, talking to them in video chats and meetings or e -email to give them tasks.
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To me, this doesn’t feel like a vision of Windows in five years (yes, it’s closer to four if we want nit-pick, and I do), but a lot further than that. Although Weston suggests this is a wider vision of a ‘future version of Windows’ and I get the core: The future is ‘Multimodal’ – moves away from the simple mouse and keyboard as the most important input to the PC – and of course everything is built around AI (of course).
Will the future of Windows be so, though? I certainly do not bet that it is very focused on AI as it seems a lot to be the case. Generally, AI feels like an almost irresistible force in terms of where computers are on the way, and Microsoft is definitely trying to clamp more AI in Windows, no matter where it can – a path that the software giant is undoubtedly going to move on.
Today I have written about clues hidden in the background of Windows 11, which suggests that another AI agent may be coming to the taskbar of the desk. This possible addition would live with the agent already introduced to the Settings app, which is a smart addition.
With powerful NPUs that are potentially set to be included in desktop chips soon, as well as copilot+ laptops, AI is likely to become much more widespread in the PCS world. I would even go so far as to guess that the next version of Windows won’t be Windows 12, but Windows AI (or Windows Copilot maybe if it’s still labeled for AI), the focus on this arena is probably so strong.
However, there are promises, high ideas and marketing around AI – and then the reality of what Microsoft can achieve. Do you remember when Copilot was first introduced to Windows 11? We were told that it would be able to change a number of settings in the operating system based on a vague prompt from the user (which ‘makes me more productive’). It still has not happened and seems to be firm on the back burner.
Which is to say that although I do not doubt that Microsoft has these great ambitions, if a very different way of working with a Windows -PC will happen by 2030 seems questionable to me.
Granted, I can actually imagine talking – giving voice commands (which come together nicely in Windows 11) – could become a much more important, but still supplementary, part of the Windows experience and interface. And AI (presumably) does more sophisticated things, yes, fair enough – maybe even manipulates Windows settings in a fall in the use of the user will be realized in a way that works well.
Hi, maybe Windows AI or Windows 2030, or whatever it ends up being called, will finally get rid of Legacy Control Panel, as a comment on Weston’s video entertaining observes. Hah – it makes me feel dizzy just to imagine it. This is a match that Microsoft has fought for too long, after all,
But the use of mouse-and-keyboard is used to feel the equivalent of being forced to return to DOS days, all text and tinker with config.sys and the autoexec.bat files to make a PC game work? It feels like more than a stretch and something much, much further away in the Windows Computing Time Line – but I could have wrong.
