For a long, long time, Windows looked like Windows. The version numbers and features changed, but the basic structure of the computer didn't. With Windows 8, Microsoft tried to completely change things… and we know how that went over. So Windows, by and large, went back to being Windows. And people were mostly grateful for that.

Now, though, the whole platform is once again up in the air. To hear Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella tell it, you may not even use your own computer for long! The future, Microsoft believes, is agents. And so it is putting agents in every nook and cranny of Windows, starting with the taskbar.

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