Microsoft's leaked new OS is one you'll hope stays buried, and it's not Windows
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'The version Microsoft will build should be known as Copilot OS': Windows built around AI may not be happening, but leaked concept remains a grim portent for desktops
Remember that big leak about Microsoft having begun developing a version of Windows that was built around AI, before eventually abandoning the project? Well, it's surfaced again, this time with some interesting new information on just how focused Microsoft was on Copilot, which I think is quite telling — or indeed worrying for those who believe Microsoft might be backtracking on AI somehow.Windows Latest has gone back over the leak (which was fi…
According to leaked documents, Microsoft was working on an operating system that was to run entirely via the AI assistant Copilot. The Windows 11 alternative would have no start menu, desktop, taskbar, or traditional apps.
Documents and a video on the BetaWiki forum reveal Project Aion, an experimental operating system with traces dating back to 2024. This project replaces the Desktop, icons and Start menu with an interface entirely driven by Copilot, hosted in a modified version of the Edge browser.
Microsoft's leaked new OS is one you'll hope stays buried, and it's not Windows
Microsoft spent time in 2024 building a working operating system that has nothing to do with Windows 11 as you know it. There’s no Start menu, or desktop icons, or the traditional taskbar apps, just Copilot (I know!) at the center of everything. I have gone through the leaked video and internal documents in detail, and I hope this one stays buried. The odds are already in favor of that happening, and if you dislike how much AI has crept into Win…
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