Microsoft's vision for Windows in 2030 doesn't include a keyboard and mouse

The official Windows channel on YouTube has posted a new video where David Weston, Corporate Vice President of Enterprise & OS Security at Microsoft, talks about what using Windows in 2030 might look like. And that vision doesn't include using a keyboard and mouse to navigate Windows to open up a browser or fire up Explorer or an app like Steam.

"The world of mousing around and keyboarding around and typing will feel as alien as it does to Gen Z to use DOS," David Weston says. So then, if we're not "mousing around," how will we interact with our Windows PCs? AI Agents. In this relatively strange vision of Windows in 2030, you'll talk to your team of AI Agents with natural language and get them to do everything for you.

"These agents will be net amplifiers and enable us to do things that we could only dream of just a few years ago," David explains. "I think we will do less with our eyes and more talking to our computers. The computer will be able to see what we see, (listen to) what we hear, and we can talk to it, and ask it to do much more sophisticated things. I think this will be a much more natural form of communication."

One example would be "hiring" an AI Agent that's a security expert that you'd be able to interact with, just like a human. That means talking to them on Teams, sending them emails, setting tasks, and more. And in turn, this will free us up to focus on fun stuff like "ideation, creativity, vision," and "connecting with other humans."

Although it's unlikely that PCs are going to drop the keyboard and mouse as the primary form of interaction anytime soon, David Weston's security expertise does offer some interesting insights into the future. The video also includes him talking about current Windows 11 quantum-resistant technologies and that a post-quantum computing world with unlimited compute power is something Microsoft is already on top of when it comes to security.

In fact, the video is essentially all about the Windows Resiliency Initiative and Microsoft's focus on security in the AI era. And not about how we're all going to be playing Counter-Strike 2 using a neural interface in a couple of years.