I think these things have potential to improve over time.

If nothing else I do like being able to get a relative quick explanation for how to change some obscure or minute functionality in the Windows OS.

Now, would it be better if the Win OS, by default wasn't obnoxiously in the way with the pretense of being "simpler"? Yes!

At least there are some truly free OS's out there that keep the interface consistent through iterations and generally improve overtime.

I'm sure it will improve over time. I'm just surprised it was as bad as it was at launch, and has improved minimally.

So release them when they work, if ever. Do not release a broken thing and then go “you must use this, in case it is one day non-shit”.

Maybe they want to collect data on people using copilot in order to train copilot to be better?

Yes, we called those alphas and betas back in the day.

But I suppose we've been shipping betas as a full release in software for quite a while now. Maybe even soke alphas.

I see you are not familiar with Microsoft.

Granted, they're no strangers to pushing unwanted nonsense on people (remember the ribbon?) but even by their standards this does seem unusually extreme.

That’s because the alternative is worse.

What's the alternative?

This change was probably recommended/implemented via AI.

It's shockingly bad because of how they want it to behave. They don't want it to bullshit, they don't want it to say rowdy things, and they want it stay "on brand".

Well too bad. These things are all modeled after human beings... they're literally called large language models. Human beings bullshit, they say rowdy things, and they don't always stay on brand.

The only way to have an exceptional AI is you actually "raise" (train) it like you would a normal human being. That's being learned with the quality of Deepseek's models, although I think they're lying through their teeth about how much it cost to train it. It's in China's interest to bullshit on that metric, so they're bullshitting.

Every single thing in which M$ has market capture is shockingly bad. Windows, Office, Azure.

Simple as this statement is it is also underrated. When you seriously consider their various products and properties it truly is a shocker at how consistently awful they all are.

The fact that they have such consistently terrible products, but yet still have over $3T market cap and are one of the 3 most valuable companies in the world is extremely frustrating and disappointing.