Microsoft steals the initiative

I heard that a huge recession is on the horizon but today I'm going to ignore that.

I used to be a huge Microsoft fan. Up to year 2000, Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer, Outlook Express was basically the basic setup on my PC environment. Then I left the IT industry but still dabbled a bit in MS Access and VB. Along came Google and that changed some things for me. I eventually stopped using IE, installed Chrome and got Gmail. I had even forgotten how IE and now Edge looked like. Fast forward 23 years and things are beginning to change again.

Today, thanks to the AI shakeup spurred on by the launch of ChatGPT, I am now re-discovering Edge and Bing. Soon, searching on the internet will be a whole new ball game. We will be talking to the browser instead of just asking a short question. And eventually, AI engines will be integrated into most applications that we will be using.

To be sure, it will be a very competitive environment with several players vying for the mass market. The higher profile ones involved in Searching and information retrieval will be Microsoft and Google with billions invested. Soon, we are going to use AI and its manifestations as assistants and co-pilots.

If you want to travel, planning your holiday itinerary-wise, food-wise and activity-wise will be easier and fun because you will get plenty of ideas offered and even organized for you. Shopping will be easier. School studies will indeed be challenging for teachers as we know them today. Productivity at the workplace will see new roles created, and old ones replaced. With AI present to spark your imagination, we are on a new road of discovery and, being able to harness all that knowledge, the possibilities are endless.

The battle is heating up and this will be the start of a new era in computing. Not only will we be consumers of information, we can also create content a lot easier be it in composing or making presentations in art, speech, literature, programming, and so on.