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Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin (www.neowin.net)
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A few days ago, Davuluri shared his excitement about it on his official X handle. He seemed very eager to reveal what the company has in mind at the upcoming Ignite event regarding the agentic OS plans.

Unfortunately for Microsoft and Davuluri, the response has been overwhelmingly negative, so much so that the comments on that X post have now been disabled.

Made me laugh. :)

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[–] 36 points 10 months ago (10 children)

In a few years Microsoft will just release Windows 12, with most of these AI features removed. Maybe they'll do some user friendly tweaks too, but just a few. And most of Windows refugees will come back, praising Microsoft for listening to the community. Meanwhile there'll be even more spyware and even less user control over the OS, but the vast majority will never notice that. That's all it takes.

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  • [–] 29 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    I think you are enormously overestimating their abilities to:

    A) reflect on poor management decisions that hurt users. They have increased their company valuation TEN-fold under Satya Nadella over the last 11 years, and his push to cannibalise the hosted-services partners and Gold partners with Azure/365 made them a lot of ground before then. They became the second company ever to reach a valuation of $3T back in 2024. If you think a (globally) handful of unhappy home OS users will cause then to change course - I don't think so, certainly never been my experience with MS.

    B) win back most of the users they have lost to Windows. Why would those users return? They have what they need with their new solutions, and moving to them was a time and education cost that they have now fully paid, they're invested. They'd have to have something very compelling to bring them back beyond, "hey guys we stopped being shit! ######for now "

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    I thought Windows 10 was the last ever version of Windows?

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    They got the punctuation all mixed up. Instead of 'Windows 10 will be the last ever version! No more major upgrades!' it was meant to read 'Windows 10 will be the last ever version? No! More major upgrades!'

    Unfortunate mistake

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  • [+] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 child)
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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    I am (was) a Windows user of 30 years and Windows 11 was the final straw for me. I've been playing around with Linux for 15 years but have only used it for my servers, as I never felt the desktop environment quite met the requirements for my daily driver.

    One year ago, I made the switch, decided to power through and leave Windows behind. I was prepared to let go of the things that would not work on Linux and learn to live without them. Now, a year later, I've managed to migrate all my stuff to Linux. Sure, there are things I miss, but those are mostly aesthetics and not functionality.

    And you are absolutely right! I'm pissed at Microsoft and have no plans to ever switch back.

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