Re:Microsoft fixes a Windows 11 annoyance as PC revenue decl...
by mapontosevenths on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @12:31PM
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Just read the release notes. Almost every new feature is built with the enterprise in mind. Typically some very specific large customer (or two).[0]
Whether that is to the benefit of smaller enterprises is a separate question, but it's clear that almost all of the effort going into windows is (and has been) aimed at the enterprise. Users be damned.
In the example linked you'll see that most of the document only matters to corporate users. There are only 6 bullet points under "User Experience" out of many pages, and several of those items are also only relevant to enterprise... Unless you count the search "improvements".
I'm not sure that anybody sane would count search. Approximately zero percent of users want terrible web search built into the damned start menu. Microsoft is like "Now you can tell the difference between a program on your computer and malware from the internet with the same name!" As if it were the first time anyone had thought of it. It's obvious that confusing the users into clicking things on bing.com was the entire goal to begin with. It's become hateware.
Whether that is to the benefit of smaller enterprises is a separate question, but it's clear that almost all of the effort going into windows is (and has been) aimed at the enterprise. Users be damned.
In the example linked you'll see that most of the document only matters to corporate users. There are only 6 bullet points under "User Experience" out of many pages, and several of those items are also only relevant to enterprise... Unless you count the search "improvements".
I'm not sure that anybody sane would count search. Approximately zero percent of users want terrible web search built into the damned start menu. Microsoft is like "Now you can tell the difference between a program on your computer and malware from the internet with the same name!" As if it were the first time anyone had thought of it. It's obvious that confusing the users into clicking things on bing.com was the entire goal to begin with. It's become hateware.
[0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/whats-new/whats-ne...