r/pcmasterrace • u/After_Cookies • 3d ago

News/Article AI was supposed to sell PCs. Instead, PC shipments just crashed 20% as AI eats the world’s RAM, and Windows 11’s Copilot agents aren’t convincing buyers

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/10/11/ai-was-supposed-to-sell-pcs-instead-pc-shipments-just-crashed-20-as-ai-eats-the-worlds-ram-and-windows-11s-copilot-agents-arent-convincing-buyers/
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u/Telvin3d 3d ago

Microsoft in particular has been desperate to identify some new killer feature that would convince people to replace their perfectly good windows 10 computers with newer ones. 

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u/SaltMaker23 3d ago

If they had managed to make copilot a thing, they would have made windows 11 or 12 free as trojan horse for their copilot offerings to drive revenue while maintaining domination on OS sector.

It clearly didn't work out but they surely tried as hard as they could.