Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is the operating-system platform Microsoft has pushed to the forefront of its generative-AI strategy, most visibly at Build 2024 . A flagship feature in that push is Recall, which lets users scroll back through weeks or months of PC activity—apps, files, even a Discord chat about a clothing purchase—and search across it all with natural language, with Microsoft stressing that the data stays on-device and is not used to train AI models . Beyond the desktop, the company is extending Windows into 3D space through Volumetric Apps on Meta Quest headsets, offering Windows 365 streaming and local PC connectivity so developers can port applications into mixed reality . In CEO Satya Nadella's framing, Windows remains the open platform where AI agents could eventually operate with user-controlled permissions, a continuity of the "platform and partner" philosophy he joined the company to advance back in 1992 . Microsoft is also reportedly integrating third-party agent capabilities—such as those of Manus—into Windows virtual machines to expand the ecosystem of callable tools .