Microsoft has posted a new video on YouTube which envisions how we might interact with Windows in the next five years. Titled “Microsoft Windows 2030 Vision”, the video revolves around how AI will play a huge part in how we interact with our desktops and laptops in the upcoming years.
The video starts off with Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President of Enterprise and OS Security, David Weston, saying that “The world of mousing around and keyboarding around and typing will feel alien as it does to Gen Z to use DOS.”
He goes on to claim that by 2030, “people will do less with our eyes and more talking to our computers.” If you are wondering how one would interact with their PCs without a mouse or keyboard, it looks like Microsoft wants users to engage in a conversation with their desktops and laptops in the coming years, as it is a “much more natural form of communication.”
Weston says that the future version of Windows will be multi-modal, allowing users to “speak to it, gesture at it, maybe even just look at something and ask the machine to respond.”
This may sound like something straight out of science fiction, but Microsoft has been actively pouring billions into the technology. In the last few years, the tech giant has been bundling Copilot, its AI-powered chatbot, across various products, including Windows and Office.
The company recently added a new feature that allows users to use Copilot by saying the “Hey Copilot” catchphrase and use it to perform actions such as changing certain system settings and searching the internet for information.
Talking about his area of expertise – security, Weston says that in the next five years, users will be able to hire an AI-powered security expert, which he says will interact with users just as they would with any other human. This will help make security services accessible to small and medium business owners, something which is currently limited to large enterprises.
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Commenting on the AI revolution, Weston says that the technology will make things like generating spreadsheets, doing expense reports and other things redundant and help us reclaim a large portion of how we spend time.