In a new video series titled Windows 2030 Vision, Microsoft sketches a future where agent-based artificial intelligence renders our current devices completely obsolete. By 2030, interacting with a mouse and keyboard could feel as archaic as using MS-DOS today. A bold vision, but is it really realistic?

Forget everything you know about computers. This is essentially the message from David Weston, Microsoft's vice president of security. For him, the conclusion is clear: "the world of the mouse and keyboard will seem as foreign to Generation Z as using MS-DOS." The reason for this upheaval will be the advent of so-called "agentic" AI, which would be directly integrated into the heart of the operating system.

Unlike an assistant like Copilot, which remains an application in Windows, this AI would be the conductor of your PC. The idea is to move towards multimodal interaction.

"The computer will be able to see what we see, hear what we hear, and we will be able to talk to it to ask it to do much more sophisticated things," explains David Weston.

In short, we would spend less time staring at the screen and would communicate with our machines using natural language. Instead of clicking through a series of menus to accomplish a task, we would simply have to ask for it. A vision that CEO Satya Nadella himself supports, stating that AI will "fundamentally change what an operating system is."

More than a vision, a secret project already underway

This prospect may seem far-fetched, straight out of a science fiction movie. However, these are not just empty concepts. According to the specialist website Windows Central, Microsoft is not content to simply dream about this future; a secret project is already underway to actively explore this true revolution. Working prototypes are even said to already exist internally.

The goal is to make Copilot not just an overlay, but the very heart of the Windows experience. Microsoft is in a unique position to impose its AI into the daily lives of millions of users, where competitors like OpenAI or Perplexity will remain confined to an application.

A credible future or just a publicity stunt?

While the promise is enticing, the road ahead is still long and fraught with challenges, and several factors temper this optimism. First, users' distrust of AI remains strong, and the presentation video on YouTube garnered more dislikes than likes, a sign of skepticism. The idea of an OS that sees and hears everything raises inevitable privacy questions.