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The only reason Microsoft is doing anything is their enterprise customers have had enough of their BS.

The sweepingest of changes to Windows?

Moving to Linux.

I encourage everyone to take a major dump on Microslop and move to greener pastures

I believe the MacBook Neo was a real wake-up call for management. Apple dominates the high-budget market. Now that Apple has entered the low-budget market, it could threaten their market share, as well as Copilot's.

I see that photo and i think.

Nothing but lip service. MS did not "analyze your feedback" because it was never about what you wanted, they analyzed their income (most likely from enterprise customers) and realized they may have boiled the frog too quickly. Windows will never improve because they do not want it to improve, they want it to make as much money as humanly possible, and they will eternally push that envelope to find out just how much bullshit their customers will tolerate.

"Oh shit, steam is really making Linux viable" [2 years late]

Too little, too late.

Already left for Cachyos and it is for me without a doubt better at everything than Windows.

Good riddance.

Here's the thing, I don't want Microslop to apologize. Apologies don't mean shit from major corporations unless actual change happens. It's appalling just how bad Windows is compared to Linux, despite the fact that Linux is free and Windows is a "premium" OS. There are so many things, both big and small, that Linux does better than Windows. Microslop is currently worth almost 3 trillion dollars, they have no excuse.

In fact, something that I saw some time ago, was a video of Tiny 11 being booted into with just 184MB of ram. It didn't run that well, as it was pretty much unusable for multiple reasons, but this proves that Microslop has plenty of room for improvements in Windows to match Linux in terms of performance.

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Microslop says what?

This is fear. They screwed up on requiring you to purchase new hardware for Windows 11. Now everyone who held off so far will purchase those cool looking, inexpensive Apple Neons.

When I read that paragraph, I was gobsmacked. They "spent months analyzing feedback"? Seriously? They needed charts and graphs to figure out that people just want Windows to work?

Should they have not analyzed feedback? Out of everything you could complain about Microsoft, complaining about them taking their time to get it right this time wouldn't be one of them. I mean, they aren't going to get it right this time, but that seems like a different complaint.

That reads a lot like McDonald’s ceo eating a burger.

Microsoft: I'm sorry you think you deserve an apology.

I have spent a great deal of time analyzing your feedback

Remember when a couple of critical CVEs went unnoticed and unpatched after disclosure because no one from Microsoft actually reads the insider hub lol.

The revealing part isn't what they're changing—it's the opening. 'We hear from the community' followed by zero acknowledgment of the actual problems people complain about (bloatware, forced updates, telemetry) is classic corporate messaging.

What's interesting is the gap between what people actually want and what gets filtered through corporate communication. Companies sanitize feedback to protect the business model. That's not just Microsoft—it's how the system works.

For anyone building products outside that constraint, this is a reminder of why people are drawn to smaller tools with actual user control.

the voice of people who care deeply about Windows and want it to be better.

What a funny way to talk about people who spit and swear every day because it's so crappy.

@spaghettiwestern

Hey, hang on.

They just raised my annual subscription charge due to costs of AI. Now they're undoing their work.

I bet the price of my subscription doesn't go down due to their incompetance.

#Microsoft #Microsoft365 #AI

There is no committment to quality. Marketing lies. Nothing new.

And I dont think anyone who uses windows cares deeply about it.

It's funny, because technically they are hurting themselves in multiple ways. They are investing loads of money in AI. Then using the same technology to produce crap that no one wants. People are starting to lose trust in their OS because of all the issues.

AI is now using up all the resources, making gpus and memory skyrocket. People are not going to be able to afford PCs for gaming. Most people that want to stay on windows are gamers. While Linux is getting better, it's still a shit show when it comes to Nvidia cards.

With Apple releasing a budget computer, this opens the door for everyone else. These devices are also fast enough and last way longer on battery life. They can also be more powerful in other ways as well.

Enterprise is another big user of Windows, but we can already see Europe and other places moving away from Microsoft products due to privacy concerns.

You can easily manage apple devices at an enterprise level. You can also do the same with Linux, albeit it's a little harder. The only other thing people are missing in enterprise are the collab tools. But tbh, Google stack is actually good enough for that. Then people use slack for chat, which is way better than teams, even if it's now owned by Salesforce. Then zoom for video calls. Even on this stack, it's typically around the same price, if not cheaper than Microsoft anyway.

Because of all these things, Microsoft is literally choking themselves out.

Personally, I already use a MacBook for work. It's a good balance between Linux and Windows and makes my life easier. I use Windows right now because of gaming and using an Nvidia card. If it wasn't for that, I wouldn't be using Windows right now. As soon as AMD releases their next gen gpus, I'm gone.

Microsoft dug their own grave and are slowly lowering themselves into it.

Thousnds of hours went into trashing the usability.

Apologies are an admission of liability in the corporate world, therefore extremely rare. Corporate-speak non-apologies (with sweeping changes to reverse the damage) are just about the best you can hope for. If you’re looking for someone to blame for the non-apologies, blame lawyers. Otherwise blame Microsoft for everything they’ve done to screw up Windows (which is far worse than a silly non-apology).

Yes, some great "pride and accomplishment" vibes. Anothergreat slapnouncement for another slupdate from good ol' microslop. Just fought with their onedrive not wanting to work because the installed onedrive is too new, and somehow forgetting my account when opening a shared document, functionality not present in the web version, ... So much just getting in the way with doing the task you need to do.

I have a feeling this can't be fixed unless they fork from a pre-slop point, which is highly unlikely.

The core problem with AI is not being incapable of generating working code, but the ability to maintain by AI or human.

AI has a larger memory (context size) than human. It can generate codes that are difficult for human to understand, and the complexity can build up fast, especially doing vibe coding without clear instructions (especially architectural).

On reaching a critical level, AI starts to make significantly more errors. At this point, no one can maintain, the codes are spaghetti. I think this is where Windows is at.

Change, just to change. Apologize, just to say that you apologized.

Windows < 11 is legacy software and Windows > 10 is slop. Nobody should care about either.

It's fun to make Copilot admit that Microsoft products suck, only to watch it self censor itself seconds later.

More than hopeful this makes me concerned that change leads to more issues and worsening. That's the expectation they established.

I followed several of the authors zdnet links. Crazy. Good articles, callouts and documentation.

The announcement is pretty broad and unconcrete. Some things are listed, and the slow context menu open is one I certainly care about (even when it's not my primary context menu because Double Commander opens the classic one), but everything else is wishy washy and nonesense corporate speak and doesn't include my main smaller issues.

/edit: oh, and I found the "we heard feedback" (ommission of negative or concern) particularly tone-deaf when they're attemting to tackle criticism. Insane.

They HAVE to be seeing some attrition.

Prepare to see them sabotage Wine.