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I won when I ditched windows.

The title of the article is very misleading. Microsoft has not said they'll be removing AI features already deployed on Windows. All it says is they're reevaluating AI features going forward and streamlining the experience whatever that means. It sounds like they're looking to rename unpopular unwanted feature like Recall instead of scrapping it. The whole thing is just a PR move to placate the disgruntled masses. Also they said nothing about intrusive ads, telemetry, or rapidly declining stability of overall system. Recent update literally broke windows explorer, task bar and start menu. One thing for certain, Microsoft will not stop using Copilot to develop their software in house. That would be admitting Ai tools are useless and that would sink Microsoft stock even further than it already has.

Why would anyone suddenly trust Microslop? Trust is gone.

Next month they'll quietly add these "features" as background services under a generic name.

As usual with all of these companies: only believe when you see the changes

(Same difference)

Nobody has won, they're just going to the store to get some lube...

Modern corpo playbook.

1. Go too far with something wildly unpopular on purpose
2. Everyone complains
3. Dial it back slightly
4. "We won!"

They keep claiming that and then proceeding anyways with maybe a short period of backtracking. I'll believe them when they've actually stayed backed off until the end of the ai bs. That said I'm never going back. I switched to Linux over 2 years ago in part because of the initial recall scandal.

Too late.

I am kinda glad they went to shit so quickly. If it were slow, I probably would never have gone fully Linux. Now, I have all 5 of my machines free of corporate spyware. I am having fun again configuring and learning. Thanks microslop! I needed the push.

"Microsoft is walking back Windows 11’s AI overload — scaling down Copilot and rethinking Recall in a major shift" For Now.

Give them 6-8 months, they'll shove it back in quietly in a way you can't see it happening as easily.

Skill glad I switched to Linux gaming lol

Prolific cannibal promises to review their choice in seasonings to be more tactful as they continue to feast on PC users' privacy, freedom and last scraps of digital dignity on a global scale.

I am sure that this empty promise of change has everything to do with their user empathy and absolutely nothing to do with their recent financial results which indicated how hollow their AI-slop-bullshit revenue growth was last quarter.

The only thing they're rethinking is how to repackage this so people accept it. They learned a lot from this, but I promise you it wasn't the right lesson.

According to people familiar with Microsoft’s plans

Might as well get your information from psychedelic mushrooms.

Understand that they're not doing this because of user feedback; they're doing this because shareholders got cold feet about the whole thing after the backlash (so indirectly it's still down to user feedback, but not really)

Stop using Windows any, it's a US company that's too large.

Too late. I've already left. Never again.

LOL, I won when I installed Mint.

I haven't won until Microslop is a company that is used in past tense.

I wouldn't call this a victory. I'd call this a "re-evaluation". they've invested way too much into AI/LLMs to simply drop it because users don't like any of it. They're simply going to pivot and come at this shit from a different angle.

Enjoying Bazzite.

Thats bad actually, the free advertising to linux was a good thing. Now Windows users will slip back into apathy.

We didn't win until I can remove it all from my computer.

Too little too late. I'm already over to Linux now. Shit's been going downhill even before this whole AI craze went off the rails. I hope Microsoft Windows crashes and burns

It mostly looks like a mild slow down of user-facing release and rebrand of unpopular features.

It is not a retreat. The marketing team is just trying to figure out how to reframe things that caused public backlash.

I read "a major shit"

Microslop Microslop Microslop. Microslop?

Windows is still constantly tracking you and stealing your data. If you trust MS at this point, that mistake is on you.

Na that’s ok. I’m happy now with Linux. I’ve adapted. And now I’m thriving. Game surveys will be happily filled out to up that statistic of Linux use. Windows can take a miserable dive off a cliff while riddled with Russian STDs.

I won when I installed Linux.

According to the headline, all they're saying is, "we will bother you less (the degree of which, we aren't clear), and we'll maybe think about what to do with recall."

For now

No one's fucking asking for AI except other corporations. It's a very industry based circle jerk, consumers don't give a fuck though.

don't believe it. ms is in for the long game.