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Re:Senior Microsoft official shares what next major Windows ... by davydm on Thursday August 14, 2025 @04:59AM (#44898305)
MS once again drops the ball

No-one is looking to talk to their PC. Most people don't want an AI recording everything they do; many, like me, simply don't want the current gen of hallucinating AIs anywhere near anything important, let alone in a supervisor role on their machine.

How about this, MS: - provide a quick, light OS that just works, with the fewest required services running, and an easy way for people to _opt_into_ extra features instead of having to _opt_out_ every time they get a fresh machine? - bring features people actually want, like the abandoned feature to run android apps via WSL, or a similar layer - prioritise user experience over business concerns, such that the OS shouldn't lag or lose functionality when your advertising streams are interrupted

I feel like MS was making good progress from win7, through 8, to 10, and has dropped the ball with 11 in several regards, not the least of which is abandoning hardware which is still fully capable of serving user needs, for an artificial requirement of requiring a specific generation of cpu, or requiring a TPM, which has been shown to be not necessary for a lot of users. No worries though - the customers you're bleeding will simply move to Linux, or continue to use outdated versions of your software which are vulnerable, giving your company a bad name.

Re:Senior Microsoft official shares what next major Windows ... by RGamma on Thursday August 14, 2025 @06:03AM (#44898673)
One of the biggest things they can improve on is usable resource isolation/supervision and desktop security. Not really a casual user feature but direly, direly needed, on Linux too (especially the usable part)... Protected folders and the app firewall don't cut it.
Re:Senior Microsoft official shares what next major Windows ... by fsflover on Thursday August 14, 2025 @06:36AM (#44898842)
> Most people don't want an AI recording everything they do

Do most people want to send "telemetry" of everything they do on their computer to Microsoft? I would have said no if Windows didn't remain this popular.

Re:Senior Microsoft official shares what next major Windows ... by exasperaited on Thursday August 14, 2025 @05:01AM (#44898324)
> I feel like MS was making good progress from win7, through 8, to 10, and has dropped the ball with 11 in several regards

On my little low-powered mini coffee-shop laptop, Windows 11 is both the best Windows it has ever been in terms of smooth usability, and the worst in terms of all the things you have to switch off first in order to get that usability.