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Jez Corden

Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud

Amazon founder and current chairman, Jeff Bezos, at the American Business Forum, January 2026. .

I was recently reminded of something Amazon chairman and founder Jeff Bezos said at a talk a few years ago, and given the direction artificial intelligence is taking, it seems increasingly relevant today.

Microsoft has made no secret of its plans to create an "AI first" Windows, with tensions between users and shareholders essentially reaching fever pitch over the last year or so. Microsoft (oft-nicknamed Microslop in the AI era) has been leveraging its OpenAI-powered chatbot Copilot in a variety of half-baked integrations across its various products.

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