Microsoft is pushing ahead with its plan to add agentic capabilities to Windows 11 but has issued an important security warning for anyone who is interested in trying it out.
At least in, say, Linux, generally whatever distro you use doesn’t try to force stuff on you whether you want it or not though, MS meanwhile is trying to force agentic AI and other BS on Windows whether its users want it or not. The Home SKU gets the brunt of that and Pro isn’t that much better. The Enterprise/Education/IoT and LTSC/IoT LTSC SKUs still let the users have control for the most part, but there’s no legal way for a normal person to get those SKUs.
The fact that security-risk settings exist isn’t necessarily a problem as long as they’re fully optional and the user is allowed to enable/disable them at their leisure, it’s when such risks get forced on people like MS is trying to do with Windows, that they become a problem.
At least in, say, Linux, generally whatever distro you use doesn’t try to force stuff on you whether you want it or not though, MS meanwhile is trying to force agentic AI and other BS on Windows whether its users want it or not. The Home SKU gets the brunt of that and Pro isn’t that much better. The Enterprise/Education/IoT and LTSC/IoT LTSC SKUs still let the users have control for the most part, but there’s no legal way for a normal person to get those SKUs.
The fact that security-risk settings exist isn’t necessarily a problem as long as they’re fully optional and the user is allowed to enable/disable them at their leisure, it’s when such risks get forced on people like MS is trying to do with Windows, that they become a problem.
But in this instance the “feature” is opt-in. You have to manually enable it (for now).