> Microsoft has now confirmed in a statement to The Verge that it has received this negative feedback loud and clear, and is planning to make some important changes in 2026.

> “The feedback we’re receiving from our community of passionate customers and Windows Insiders has been clear. We need to improve Windows in ways that are meaningful for people. This year you will see us focus on addressing pain points we hear consistently from customers: improving system performance, reliability, and the overall experience of Windows.”

https://archive.is/Ru5Ls

I call BS on this nonsense. I still have a useless copilot key on my keyboard. But we'll see. I'm not going back.

Who wants to bet they’re gonna add more meaningless AI features and terrible updates this year

TBH maybe just don’t touch it. Don’t fix any bugs, don’t add anything, not a single line of code, and in ten years it’s going to improve itself.

Trust was very slow to come for me. It happened with Windows 10.

I really like 10.

My computing experiences began on Apple ][ 6502 systems. Then a mix of early Windows for workgroup and SGI IRIX.

I was online proper at 9600 baud in early 1990 at work and had my own WfW + Winsock running 14.4 early '91.

I got a DSL the moment Qwest announced it, and was rocking 100kb up 600kb down per second. A damn rocket ship straight to the WWW baby! Truth is hosting Q3A and mooching files were the real fun. I setup SGI Irix at home.

Linux soon followed. I have ran most everything. Solaris, AIX, MacOS, Be, HP/UX, even XENIX, CP/M and others...

I am at the core a UNIX head. And to all the naysayers back then: I was right! UNIX won!

Anyhow, I liked Win 10. Still do, if they would just continue with it. 10, with the WSL system is a pretty damn good OS, and it can run almost anything ever made for Win OS. 10, pre all the 11 vomit being back ported, is just great.

More of that please.

11 is a major league botch! I hate it. Not only are the UI simplifications a major league regression, but the intrusive data collection features and AI penetrating everything is nauseating. I hate it viscerally.

I am not going to use 11 as a primary OS. Nor anything built on it.

Ever.

The best M$ can expect is it running in a VM where it can be managed properly, and even then, only if some damn software costs too much to live without.

Nope. Not. Ever.

The dollar sign was deliberate. Win 11 trashed any good will Microsoft had garnered with me.

Did I mention visceral hate? Yeah. I use my Mac M1 a lot more now.

The amazing thing is my younger peers have come to me for opinions after they too began to hate 11 just as I have.

It is hard to botch it this completely.

Congrats MS leadership. You have accomplished something remarkable!

I am not sure if I count as a “passionate customer” or more a captive one, but I sure hope they fix it.

Recently, even cut and paste is no longer reliable.

- Sometimes cmd-c doesn’t do anything, only right-click works

- Pasting an image into PowerPoint requires an explicit paste as picture

- Pasting as picture in Outlook is only available after I default-paste the picture once

These and other things are very irritating because they disturb my flow and make me question my sanity (“did I not press cmd-c?”).

I still remember the IE6 fiasco, MS was stubborn and they didn't do anything to fix the issues(that they intentionally created) when they had monopoly on web browser market share. Then Firefox got traction and later Chrome did the finishing stroke and by the time Microsoft was very sorry and they even took action to steer people away from IE it was too late.

I left Windows for macOS like 15 years ago with a hackintosh then got the real thing and never looked back, MS is a terrible company to be trusted with critical infrastructure. I guess they can't help themselves to milk to the extinction whenever they get the opportunity to do so.

With all their faults, Apple and Google are much better custodians of the digital age.