Microslop is going to spend 2026 improving Windows 11. It comes after Windows update quality issues and complaints about the operating system.
I guess I have to thank MS for pushing me into using Linux Mint. And I love it.
They were so successful in pushing, I installed Linux Mint on my 3 PCs, laptop, wife’s laptop and friends laptops. Not a single complaint so far (it’s been about a year).
I have a strong feeling they won’t be removing the spying, AI everywhere, ads, and bloatware. Microsoft views those as positives.
Seems they’re figuring out you can’t sell ads and AI on your platform if nobody wants to use your platform.
If Microsoft walks back their use of AI in the development of Windows, that would be a major admission of failure on their part.
But it will probably help prolong their market dominance a great deal. Because up until they started destroying their own OS, all they needed to do to remain on the top was literally nothing.
I wake up to a bright flashing of my phone.
It is 3am, damn I forget to turn my phone to silent.
I can’t resist the urge, who would text me this time of night??!?
“hey I have been thinking about you, you know I think we could work it out together. I will spend 2026 improving myself I promise. Please baby I miss you”
“go to bed Microslop, you are drunk and you are the one that wanted the divorce because you left me for Al” I text back frustratedly and turn my phone to silent.
I want a divorce and I’m keeping Clippy
King/Queen (whichever you prefer, frigging royalty)
I prefer to use Linux. Arch Linux.
You dropped this:
Btw
No one is impressed by arch users.
it’s a joke dum dum
… but it was already too late. They alienated their users completely and Linux is soooo nice.
Rebuild trust?
- remove all telemetry
- remove all ai bullshit
- remove ads
- open source the whole code
Then, and only then, we might start to trust again.
To add to this list
- Remove WebView apps. Eat our own dogfood and use MAUI.
- Go back to the classic Start Menu. Use API to make the whole UI available for customizations
- Get rid of the whole shitty “Settings” menu and go back to the Control Panel.
- Drop backwards compatibility for a bunch of crap. Stop pulling the 1980s forward, let that shit die.
- Address real modern issues with compatibility and performance with current CPUs
- Undo all the vibe coding.
- Focus on stability and performance, not trying to be “An experience”. Windows runs apps, make it do that the best it can.
- For the love of everything holy, take a risk and modernize the OS. This goes back to 8. But as someone who makes Windows Server golden images for multiple platforms, FUCKING CHRIST. Having to use the Autounattend to even get anything started, and that’s often (Even in Azure) just a minimal thing to get some client to do the real work, should tell you there’s a problem. The Autounattend is poorly documented. I learned more from just building a basic VM on different providers and seeing what they figured out. I could write a god damn novel on the shortcomings of the initial installation and customization of Windows, but it’s especially embarrassing for their Server platform
- Stop dropping support for the crap that works. Just so you can sell an inferior subscription version. WSUS being sunset is stupid. Having on-prem WSUS is always going to be faster and easier. You should focus on making that better instead of letting it limp along and then “Oh, we have an overpriced and slower option!” Get bent.
- Azure Local is a really fucking cool idea. That was an god awful pricing as far as I can tell. But neat.
Too late for me. But thanks for telling me my computer wasn’t good enough for Win 11 and forcing me to install Linux. It was a breeze, and computing is fun again.
and computing is fun again.
I agree 100%. I’ve been trying to put my finger on why.
Maybe it’s because using Linux doesn’t feel adversarial?
Maybe it’s because Tux Racer comes pre-installed with some distros and brings a whole vibe?
Maybe it’s the software center that prominently displays a warning for anything that isn’t completely free in either price or freedom?
The Linux Software Center feels like my happy memories of getting to spend $5.00 in a 10 cent candy shop.
Maybe it’s because it is where many librarians, educators and free thinker gather, and their fingerprints are on everything?
Sorry for the random walk comment. I just keep thinking I should figure out the elevator pitch for why Linux feels more fun.
I already moved to Linux, and I’m not going back.
Microsoft is working to rebuild trust in their turd prison
Ooohh wow, they are? I’m so happy about that, I can’t wait to get my hands on their turd and be told what to do and be limited to only their wishes and pay them through the nose!
I mean who wouldn’t want to work with a vibe coded piece of shit that can only run on the most expensive hardware? Who wouldn’t trust a company who left security holes open for half a year causing the US government to be hacked by China, just because they didn’t wanted to look bad nad potentially lose money?
The company that constantly non stop has done everything to get themselves more money, at the cost of software quality l, consumer sanity and everything good since it’s founding some 5 decades ago is now telling me they really do care about me? The company that wants to add advertising into fucking basic software like operating systems juuuuust to squeeze some more money out of decades old products, that wants to monitor your every move so they can use and sell your data, wants … Me? They real care about me, the end user?
Go get pounded by a bag of umbrella dicks you motherfuckers
Been a linux user for a solid 9 years now. Never going back!
Already switched to Linux… super happy with it.
They’ll never read nor act on this feedback, but here’s my list:
- drop the AI
- drop the ads
- stop pushing services, namely cloud
- stop requiring Microsoft accounts
Honestly win10 was great when it dropped. Not sure why we needed 11.
Hey Satya, just give us Win10 back and fuck off, you bald fraud.
Nah, windows 10 was still sluggish spyware/adware.
I would only ever consider switching back to windows if they updated windows 7 with the latest kernel/security updates.
No apps, ads, ai, or shitty UI frameworks.
A functioning offline-only search, a cohesive/responsive UI, and control over if/when updates get installed.
Thought about that but some newer storage and network connections may not be supported.
We have that. It’s called Linux
I use both Windows and Ubuntu/Mint for personal use, WSL for personal dev environment (because MS SQL Server on Docker limits what I do), Ubuntu/Redhat for dev/test/prod environments.
I like Linux but it can be a hassle with little things so Windows.
By the time they fix it, it’ll be Windows 12. We see the pattern over and over again, but this time they tried strong arming people onto 11. Those people aren’t going back.
Windows 11.1
Reminds me of Vault 111, where the overseer is the friendly dictator that knows best and should never be questioned. Seems like a fitting version number
