- Another Microsoft -Director has detailed their vision of a future windows
- Pavan Davuluri, VP for Windows and Devices, repeats the thoughts previously laid by Microsoft’s VP for us Security, David Weston
- The overall vision is for more AI, and an operating system that looks at what you’re doing on screen by tapping into the cloud, which may worry about privacy deliberate
Another Microsoft director has given their vision of Windows future, specifically framed around AI and the cloud, and how this – and voice entrance – becomes a big part of the operating system down the line.
Windows Central discovered a YouTube interview with Pavan Davuluri, VP for Windows and Devices at Microsoft. Watch the video clip below and be warned, Technobabble is strong with this one. Davuluri says at one point: “Computing [will] Become more surrounding, more pervasive, continue to tighten form factors and will definitely become more multimodal in the time arch. “
Okay, let’s cook this – and the rest of the interview – a little down. Calculation of becoming more “multimodal” refers to using input beyond the traditional mouse and keyboard, and Exec Touch on voice commands as an important part of the equation. This repeats what Microsoft’s VP for us Security, David Weston, said earlier this month when he explained his vision of Windows by 2030.
Davuluri also says, “Basically, the concept that your computer can actually look at your screen and is context -conscious will become an important modality for us in the future.”
Again, it follows up what Weston observed that the next general Windows PC could “see what we see, hear what we hear, and we can talk to it and ask it to do much more sophisticated things.”
The most important idea seems to be Windows that sees what you are doing, use AI to determine context and then apply it to your actions in us and specifically make voice commands more useful because of that context.
Davuluri notes, “You will be able to talk to your computer while writing, colors or interacting with another person. You must be able to get a computer semantic to understand your intention to interact with it.”
Exec also talks about Windows becoming “increasingly agentic” (with the first AI agent that has recently debuted in the Settings app in Windows 11, of course) and how the cloud is needed to operate these AI skills. (Although some of the work will be on the device, he already indicates with Copilot+ PCs – hence the need for NPUs with these laptops.)
Davuluri observes: “Compute becomes pervasive as in Windows experiences will use a combination of capacities that are local [processed on the device] And it’s in the cloud. I think it is our responsibility to make sure they are trouble -free to our customers. “
Which is a roundabout way of saying that the level of treatment needed for some of these AI forces in the next generational windows will need to press the cloud to make sure the performance remains responsive enough to feel ‘trouble-free’ rather than sluggish.
Analysis: A computer paradise – or Big Brother Nightmare?
Microsoft has clearly got a hymn sheet somewhere, as its top leaders seem to sing the same tune as to how Windows will develop as we enter the next decade.
It is interesting to pick up the mirrored points between these two interviews that Microsoft has recently presented: More AI (surprise, surprise) that determines context by seeing what you are doing on screen, and also allows voice commands to be more effectively used on the basis of this context – with the cloud at least partially driving all this.
Depending on what kind of person you are, this may sound like an exciting new way forward to make it easier to do what you need to do within Windows, or a privacy nightmare.
The more paranoid-bending Windows users out there are probably horrified by the proposals made about OS’s future here. An operating system that sees what you do? The way they read this angle from Microsoft is that it transforms Windows into an AI -powered surveillance platform – you can guarantee that.
And it is obvious where such concerns come from when we are told that “the computer can actually look at your screen” and take context from there and utilize the cloud (read: Microsoft’s private servers) to crush the data about what you’re doing with your PC.
If this does with the help of the next gene windows for a breeze and AI is constantly shooting up the apps you need, or searches you want to do before you come to them, or proactively suggest files you might want next – or Windows settings that can be changed to your advantage in given scenarios – will people even be interested in what’s happening in the cloud? Frankly, the truth is that they probably don’t do it if it makes their computer life much easier.
