[taffydavid]

The sad truth is Microsoft is so heavily invested in and indebted by AI, advertising and telemetry that the only way Windows lite would ever get the greenlight is if the company tanks, loses billions and pivots away from everything they've been pushing for the last decade.

And then maybe we could get the dream that is Windows lite

[Night_Thastus]

AI has essentially nothing to do with it. This was standard well before AI took off.

[taffydavid]

Back before LLMs they were stuffing Cortana in there. I don't know if they ever marketed that as AI but it was named after an AI character in a video game