{"id":145772,"date":"2025-10-16T21:12:48","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T21:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/ai-powered-features-begin-creeping-deeper-into-the-bedrock-of-windows-11\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T21:12:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T21:12:48","slug":"ai-powered-features-begin-creeping-deeper-into-the-bedrock-of-windows-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/ai-powered-features-begin-creeping-deeper-into-the-bedrock-of-windows-11\/","title":{"rendered":"AI-powered features begin creeping deeper into the bedrock of Windows 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Like virtually every major Windows announcement in the last three years, the spate of features that Microsoft <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.windows.com\/windowsexperience\/2025\/10\/16\/making-every-windows-11-pc-an-ai-pc\/\">announced for the operating system today<\/a> all revolve around generative AI. In particular, they\u2019re concerned with the company\u2019s more recent preoccupation with \u201cagentic\u201d AI, an industry buzzword for \u201ctelling AI-powered software to perform a task, which it then does in the background while you move on to other things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the overarching impression I got, both from reading the announcement and sitting through a press briefing earlier this month, is that Microsoft is using language models and other generative AI technologies to try again with Cortana, Microsoft\u2019s failed and discontinued entry in the voice assistant wars of the 2010s.<\/p>\n<p>According to Microsoft\u2019s Consumer Chief Marketing Officer Yusuf Mehdi, \u201cAI PCs\u201d should be able to recognize input \u201cnaturally, in text or voice,\u201d to be able to guide users based on what\u2019s on their screens at any given moment, and that AI assistants \u201cshould be able to take action on your behalf.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2025\/10\/microsofts-vision-for-ai-pcs-looks-a-lot-like-another-crack-at-cortana\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2025\/10\/microsofts-vision-for-ai-pcs-looks-a-lot-like-another-crack-at-cortana\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like virtually every major Windows announcement in the last three years, the spate of features that Microsoft announced for the operating system today all revolve around generative AI. 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