General Game Discussion for March 2026

[Pifanjr]

I unlocked an entirely new area in Dave the Diver that seems to be about as big as the first one. That explains why there were so many upgrades left when it seemed like I had explored everything already.

@Colif according to CoPilot, they are slowly adding to the things it can do to your system. Right now, for instance, it can open up various things for you, like different settings pages. They are being very careful with allowing it to actually change things on your system. The plan is to add things that it is allowed to do slowly throughout the next couple of years, after they've verified that it won't mess up your system.

One thing that it is very good at now is, "In Windows 11, is it possible to...." As it turns out, but about everything is possible, and it will tell you how to get Windows to do it. It also knows what error messages mean and how to fix them.

Overall, as someone who plays a lot (probably more than 100 a year) of complex and completely undocumented games and who also uses outrageously complex and, yet, poorly documented, AI programs, I can assure you that CoPilot has been invaluable for me.

Imagine opening up a program and there are 50 settings and none of them mean anything to you, and when you google them, no one can agree exactly what they do. CoPilot knows. It doesn't know these things because it scraped it off the web. It's been fed technical documents.

Maybe CoPilot can tell me why my Windows Update is failing, nothing I've tried or looked up myself has worked so far.

 

[Colif]

Right now, for instance, it can open up various things for you, like different settings pages. They are being very careful with allowing it to actually change things on your system. The plan is to add things that it is allowed to do slowly throughout the next couple of years, after they've verified that it won't mess up your system.

sets reminder for 20 years time, when it might be useful, or more likely with Windows, have been replaced with the next big trend.

Microsoft generally leave big changes for the new versions... Ie, Windows 12. I mean, you have to offer something new apart from change the desktop around... oh wait.
So its likely by about Windows 15 it might be useful. So in about 15 years or so... Every version has a 5 year use life before they release the next one.
They make smaller changes in version updates, so once a year. But nothing radical.

 

[Zed Clampet]

sets reminder for 20 years time, when it might be useful, or more likely with Windows, have been replaced with the next big trend.

Microsoft generally leave big changes for the new versions... Ie, Windows 12. I mean, you have to offer something new apart from change the desktop around... oh wait.
So its likely by about Windows 15 it might be useful. So in about 15 years or so... Every version has a 5 year use life before they release the next one.
They make smaller changes in version updates, so once a year. But nothing radical.

Well, I agree that the philosophy behind changes is as you describe, but I don't think it applies to CoPilot because they are in an all-out race with Google Gemini and ChatGPT, and they have a huge advantage that they can't squander, which is that most office workers are already happily using it because it's bundled with other products.

But, if I had to guess, all that really matters to them is the iphone/android market. That seems to be the only consumer market tech companies are concerned with.

 

[Colif]

But, if I had to guess, all that really matters to them is the iphone/android market. That seems to be the only consumer market tech companies are concerned with.

its what most young people know now. They have been using the phones all their lives, and its unlikely to change so its a growing market. Old people assumed the young would pick up PC at some stage but they never did. So Microsoft have a captive audience of most of their older users but have been scrambling to get attention of young people for years now.

Youtube are the same in a different way, they trying to get users to use Shorts because Tiktok got in the way of their growth, so they try to become the same thing. Sux if you don't want to see shorts.