Microsoft's Leaked Project Aion Puts Copilot First

Microsoft's leaked Project Aion puts Copilot first

Leaked Microsoft files reveal Project Aion, a Copilot-centered web OS built on Edge, Win3 and Windows 365, without native support for Win32 apps on PCs.

'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…

Copilot is the new Internet Explorer: Inside Microsoft’s plan to force AI lock-in

Microsoft's AI harness strategy uses bundling and vendor lock-in, posing a false choice that restricts open enterprise innovation.

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…