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I have a strong feeling they won't be removing the spying, AI everywhere, ads, and bloatware. Microsoft views those as positives.

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.

Marketing bullshit. Microsoft isn't going to actually reverse any of the enshittification it's inflicted on Windows.

If you don't have any customer mandated software that requires Windows, I'm looking at you AutoDesk, then do yourself a favor and go ahead take the week to install and learn Linux Mint.

… but it was already too late. They alienated their users completely and Linux is soooo nice.

Okay, that's easy: remove all the LLM slop. That'll start fixing it. Then get the ads out of the UI. Get rid of the MS account requirement, and make all updates optional. For a stretch goal, go back to making an OS that only does what the user tells it to, and doesn't have any function to phone home without direct user input.

I guess I have to thank MS for pushing me into using Linux Mint. And I love it.

It should not be hard to browse local files on a computer. 

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.

I prefer to use Linux. Arch Linux.

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.

Hey Satya, just give us Win10 back and fuck off, you bald fraud.

MS is about to learn how hard it is to build trust in commercial markets, and why it's a terrible decision to set that on fire for a short term profit. Honestly, it's hard to find a better example of a company that had a more comfortable and ideal position in their market, that just decided to disrupt itself without any pressure or prompting. You wanna gamble, you gotta be ready to lose.

Good luck with that - you would need to scrap the entire operating system.

Rebuild trust?

1. remove all telemetry
2. remove all ai bullshit
3. remove ads
4. open source the whole code

Then, and only then, we might start to trust again.

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

Rebuilding trust for most companies means some bullshit marketing campaign. New catch phrase. Some promotion. It rarely means admitting fault and changing direction. It would take something really huge for that to happen. Perhaps a combination of AI bubble burst, leadership change, shareholder revolt.

Everything anti-consumer in Windows is a deliberate choice aimed at extracting more revenue from customers. This isn't unique to Microsoft. They exist to make money for their shareholders.

If like me you think a lot of companies have been incredibly short sighted and are burning their brands and customer loyalty for short term gains, just look at the stock prices. Short termism is making a killing for tech companies while the rest of the economy is treading water. Is it sustainable? I don't think so. Does it matter for Microsoft or any of the other tech companies?

I have been a customer of companies that were awesome for years then sold out and their prices sky rocketed. They were clearly bleeding customers but every time they did they just put the price up more. Some people always stay for some reason. This can go on for years. As long as they keep screwing people faster than people leave they are probably making a lot more money in the short term than they would have made with a longer vision. That is business these days. People aren't building products for the long term anymore. Now that thinking seems to have moved to companies. Modern business leaders are about gobbling revenues up like a locust plague then moving on to the next pasture.

Way too fucking late for that.

Rebuild trust… by integrating more mandatory and default-on server-based features?

good luck with that.

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.

I already moved to Linux, and I'm not going back.

Already switched to Linux... super happy with it.

You want trust? Fuck off with Slopilot and start supporting windows 10 again.

Great, so windows 9 is going to come out?

Hey Microslop use Cortana to replace your shit CEO and the whole C-Suite

Please don't. It's actually quite funny if you don't have to use windows at all.

And people in hell want ice water.

Are Microslop going to rebuild trust by being broken up into smaller companies? Doubtful!

Man… :( please don’t do that. That’s super boring. They were doing so great pushing people to use Linux.

About thirty years too late. That horse has bolted long ago.

I wonder if we're past the point of no return re: the trust thermocline: https://mastodon.social/@garius/109279394369832433

Maybe if they keep making it worse and worse it will kind of circle back to good.

Microslop is going to spend 2026 improving Windows 11.

Why bother? Just upgrade everyone to Windows 10.

Been a linux user for a solid 9 years now. Never going back!

... genuinely, how can they possibly expect to regain or have any trust after turning W11 into a constant wiretap via Copilot, that spams ads all up in your OS in every place, and then also just handing over the bitlocker master keys to the FBI?

You would have to be very uninformed or delusional at this point to think that Windows and privacy/security exist in the same universe.

The only thing they have going for them is inertia.

And they're now hitting the point where backlash against them is snowballing much faster than they could possibly reverse course on their own internal inertia and actually make any real changes.

And yes that applies to their consumer facing shit as well as B2B.