Microsoft is walking back Windows 11's AI overload

Re:Microsoft is walking back Windows 11's AI overload by Sharlin on Monday February 02, 2026 @07:59AM (#46855526)

Unlike IE, the NT kernel was never bad and is still (presumably) in a pretty good shape. It's the userland that's gone insane. Someone should just port the Windows 7 shell to the newest kernel and call it a day.

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Re:Microsoft is walking back Windows 11's AI overload by joe_mamba on Monday February 02, 2026 @08:38AM (#46855903)

>Ever since they got the delicious taste of white-labelling chromium instead of fixing ie

What exactly was wrong with Edge Legacy(not IE) based on their own engine that they need to fix, and why was Chromium a sweet taste?

AFAIk Edge Legacy was kicking ass in all benchmarks. Their only achilles heel was Google messing up Youtube and G-apps to break they way they got displayed on Edge LEgacy forcing users to switch to Chrome.

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Re:Microsoft is walking back Windows 11's AI overload by layer8 on Monday February 02, 2026 @09:45AM (#46856608)

Edge Legacy was always playing catch-up trying to be sufficiently compatible with Chrome.

And personally, I preferred the native IE UI over the Chrome-lookalike Edge UI.

I’d still have liked for Microsoft to keep maintaining their own engine, but I can understand why they didn’t.

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Re:Microsoft is walking back Windows 11's AI overload by accrual on Monday February 02, 2026 @09:34AM (#46856503)

I was playing with the RTM release of Windows 10 which came with the "new Edge" browser (post-IE, pre-Chromium). It's a cool piece of software, very slick and minimal browser UI and not a hint of Copilot anywhere (since that would come ~8 years later).

I imagine it was not as compatible and it was less work to simply rebrand Chromium as Edge.

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Re:Microsoft is walking back Windows 11's AI overload by evilduck on Monday February 02, 2026 @10:13AM (#46856917)

What was wrong is that they had to foot the bill. Now Google does the hard and expensive part for them.

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Re:Microsoft is walking back Windows 11's AI overload by joe_mamba on Monday February 02, 2026 @10:24AM (#46857053)

I meant what was wrong from the user's perspective who complained. Not from MS's perspective.

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Re:Microsoft is walking back Windows 11's AI overload by vachina on Monday February 02, 2026 @09:16AM (#46856298)

> What exactly was wrong with Edge(not IE)

The constant fear of having Copilot shoved down your throat whenever you close and update Edge. And Microsoft homepage.

> why was Chromium a sweet taste?

Do zero of the heavy work maintaining a browser engine. Do maximum (little) work of adding AI slop.

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Re:Microsoft is walking back Windows 11's AI overload by joe_mamba on Monday February 02, 2026 @09:36AM (#46856520)

>The constant fear of having Copilot shoved down your throat whenever you close and update Edge.

Copilot only cam after they switched Edge Legacy to Edge Chromium.

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