Microsoft is working to rebuild trust in Windows

> 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 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?”).

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

I'd say they need to rebuild trust in their suitability for re-earning trust first. This isn't the first time MS fucked us. Personally I'm sick of falling for the "we're sowee" shtick that barely lasts a few years before we're back to being fucked. MS has shown us it cannot change, and we deserve it if we fall for it yet again. It's time for MS to wither and die, let better things grow in the vacuum left by it's corpse.

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