It is not unlikely that artificial intelligence will play an important role not only in the next versions of Windows 11, but also in the eventual Windows 12. We can already see the fragments. Officially, Microsoft says that artificial intelligence will suggest files in the Start menu on computers connected to Azure Active Directory. Unofficially will help with fastening windows.
With positioning, if you will. It’s only been a few days since Microsoft admitted in the Insider program that they want to better indicate what the window snapping environment is for. Therefore, he started testing a new way of displaying, where the program icon appears in the selected position.
Unofficially, we now know that his ambitions in this regard are significantly greater. As he found out Zac BowdenRedmond is internally considering having artificial intelligence design entire assemblies for the layout of windows on the screen.
Today in Windows 11, when you hover over the window’s maximize and restore button, you see empty forms, positions, positions, you name it. Thanks to artificial intelligence, you would rather see in this place different layouts of multiple windows across the screen. A picture is worth a thousand words, so it could look something like this:
Concept of assembly designs for arranging groups of windows across the screen
According to Bowden, the smart feature should also support OCR, which would make it easier to choose which apps to pin. It would therefore not only be searched between window names, but also according to visual or textual content. We can only guess how the implementation will look like and how practical the search will be.
Smart pinning should further remember reports for some applications, which you would then tap to restore. This would save time for people who often work with certain programs that they have specifically spread across the screen.
Microsoft is also said to have experimented with the dynamics of working with windows, where more space would be given to the current window. If you had two windows next to each other, the smaller one would switch positions with the larger one the moment you went to work in it. To what extent the described ideas and experiments will translate into reality, we can only speculate at this point.
Microsoft is currently testing such a change in the environment for pinning windows
(picture: Microsoft / Windows Insider Blog)
We don’t even know when we will see smart pinning. Maybe relatively soon, because @PhantomOfEarth discovered the first mentions and integration of the feature in the Windows 11 Insider Preview code.
Microsoft is betting big on artificial intelligence. It is currently testing a chatbot in Bing, heavily automating the Teams communication platform, but also plans to deploy smart functions across its other products.
Resources: Windows Central
