Microsoft's new PCs with AI is a 'thumbs up,' says WSJ's Joanna Stern

Joanna Stern, senior personal technology columnist at The Wall Street Journal, joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss Microsoft's new Surface devices with advanced AI capabilities, the latest technologies, and what will make the product competitive with Apple's.

[@ramlozz8368]

If you expand this feature into AR glasses and then into contacts, ladies and gentlemen, we are about to have unlimited memory. 😅 Black Mirror vibes!

[@JustXavier]

I like Joanna's approach to reporting. She never sounds like she's reading off of a script and she's always asking questions that help Enlighten consumers. And I thought her interview with Satya Nadella was very good.

[@johannesburgreal441]

WSJ gives it a thumbs up during an interview with Andrew Ross-Suckin. clearly these laptops that do ongoing screen recording cannot be good for the people...

[@incipidsigninsetup]

Hacking remote access to your pc now gives hackers more power to see passwords and private info going back months. Brilliant.

[@EasyAIForAll]

It is just a new fancy tool. I think Microsoft has some other directions to enhance his operating system. However, still, the feature may find its users.

[@keith6371]

Win11 can’t even place copy and paste in the right menu without asking users to physically edit registry Or find local disk without going through hoops. Forget AI, can we have win7 back? I don’t see anything in win11 over win7 that is a must have.

[@CCherriosful]

It’s not for you, it’s for investors. Customers complain about literally everything. You really think the people in charge of these companies care what you think?

[@ScentlessSun]

Windows 7 is absurdly vulnerable to being hacked and exploited by viruses due to vulnerabilities in its kernel. I loved Windows 7, but it’s time has come and gone. Every hacker worth their salt knows how to exploit Windows 7 and install and key logger. There is no fixing that. An entirely new kernel is required to resolve those issues. Windows 11 is not prone to the same exploits. It resets the clock and requires hackers to find new ways to hack the OS.

[@JourneyXProductions]

who dafaq voting Yes for this?

[@FoundingFathersUSA]

How about mentioning new versions of office and other software will make use of the npu chip too.

[@moozillamoo2109]

That would be great. Imagine AI helping with documents.

[@jonsandell3107]

imagine being so braindead you actually could not function without any help using logic and proper grammar an just doing the bare minimum.. i.e you f*'in JOB

[@jaylxxxi1908]

I love these new Windows MacBooks.

[@illegalsmirf]

Hype train gonna keep hyping

[@MatthewMS.]

Hype train 🚂 eh? My train has been a money 💰 train 📈🇺🇸👍🏼

[@mulo822]

Why not just make the whole operating system as Ai. I think that will be complete

[@mariajiao4855]

If they dare to open market and allow international competition. Companies like MSFT won’t so good .

[@incipidsigninsetup]

You mean China, right? You won't catch me ever spending money on a Chinese AI product that can connect to the internet.

[@Mr.Eeeeeeeee]

And it will still run crappy Windows and Office applications. No thanks.

[@ScentlessSun]

Excel is extremely powerful.

[@thedrewh10]

Why does literally every business use Office if it’s crappy? lol

[@Mr.Eeeeeeeee]

@@thedrewh10 First mover advantage. They are so entrenched that it is hard to switch. I never use Office. It's utter garbage.

[@vp5335]

The fact the apple was having all the capacity to take the lead but couldn't due to the lack of foreseeing the future where are after 2 years apple device is working on AI and trying to eaqul PC what a circle 😮 and pc is having lack of app support also this will change caz if Adobe not gonna support arm ASAP then small players like Capcut would take a huge advantage of LOCAL SLMs and other AI features and capture the market i can see thats happening now

[@mopthermopther]

AI is changing the way we … err, aah, uh, put thoughts together. What do you call that ?

[@Some0ne001]

The fact that the AI built in is taking screenshots of your desktop every time you click on something is a big no from me, Windows pushing me to learn Linux or switch to Mac. Huge invasion of privacy, and no I don’t trust them when they say “it’s local on the computer” it’s not like Microsoft hasn’t lied in the past. It’s a thumbs down 👎

[@valetudo1569]

You can turn it off...

[@CCherriosful]

@@valetudo1569 No you can’t, that’s just a toggle to make you as the user feel better.

[@mint-o5497]

it would be so easy to prove if its local or not, would be stupid for them to lie about that. also microsoft could get every bit of information about what ur doing without copilot if they wanted, so if you dont trust this copilot feature you shouldnt use windows in the first place then.

[@RealGrandFail]

You know every company and website has telemetry, right? If they wanted information of you, if you are that important, they could get it. If you want to have complete privacy, the only way is living in the Amazon with no connection to anything.

[@RealGrandFail]

​@@CCherriosfulis anything real or just an illusion?

[@rikmeistr46]

13 inch screens, max.

[@TheHandsomebaby]

Can't wait for AI to help me Ctrl Alt Del.

[@loubraga5800]

Can’t wait to see hackers access all those screen shots of your most private stuff and naked pics you sent to your boyfriend …… 😂

[@itsjustramblings]

Satya is playing the markets like a sorcerer and even though google is looking lost it is not far behind. Every bit of AI hysteria and hype is being turned into $$$'s. Amazing as well as terrifying because the last crypto or cloud hype companies weren't moving this fast to capitalize the opportunity. Everyone is learning and moving fast...cool.

[@reggie2261]

Nothing creepy for me just for you

[@Patrick_Felipe]

Anybody installed windows before? U jus turn everything off!

[@user-gd4wt6oi7y]

these are simple AI features what about safety secure un-hackable gadgets and some other features, well, not done as yet, isn't it.. time its done...

[@kozzietea]

no thanks

[@sar50anga82]

invasion of privacy....all these kinds of gimmickery should be banned

[@georgewashington3012]

Microsoft poorly executes everything and consistently implements what consumers don’t want (Clippy and Cortana, for example). I’ll wait for Apple’s MBA M4.