"Once upon a time, when you ran Windows on your desktop, it was your desktop. Oh, the IT department might have called the shots on how much you could do with it, but you could write what you needed to, and it was all kept nicely on your PC or your choice of network drive. Those days are long gone."
"It means - as near as I can decipher - that with Microsoft's Agent Workspace and Copilot Actions notes in this latest and greatest version of Windows 11 (OK, that may be an oxymoron, but bear with me), you'll run AI agents in isolated, secure workspaces. These agents will have their own user accounts, Agent ID, which are separate from the primary user (you)."
"First, Microsoft started replacing standalone applications with cloud-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) programs such as Microsoft 365. Today, you have little choice but to run Microsoft 365. In addition, unless you turn it off, every file you make or save ends up in OneDrive. Microsoft has also been pushing companies to say goodbye to Windows on the desktop entirely and move to running Windows in the cloud. That move has been less successful."
Windows has shifted from a locally controlled desktop to a cloud-centric platform where Microsoft 365 and OneDrive are default workflows. Attempts to move full Windows instances into the cloud have had limited success. The emerging agentic model enables AI agents to run in isolated workspaces with distinct Agent IDs that access user account permissions via the Windows On-Device Registry to manage files, automate tasks, and adjust settings. Microsoft outlines logging, auditing, Model Context Protocol, and agent connectors as mechanisms intended to provide security, privacy, transparency, and deeper integration with cloud services and applications.
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