Microsoft promised a bold new era for Windows—but years later, many of its most hyped features have quietly stalled, vanished, or failed to impress.

Abstract: This paper presents a hierarchical task planner for a fully autonomous steel grabbing machine system, designed for large-scale steel grabbing and transport operations in the steel industry.

Microsoft rolls out a redesigned Planner with task chat and Goals view, while retiring key legacy features ahead of deeper AI integration.