WYP
News Guru
Microsoft is making some major changes to Windows, but is it now too late to rebuild trust?
Read more about Microsoft's plan to rebuild trust in Windows.
Microsoft's focus is on rebuilding trust in Windows in 2026
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Read more about Microsoft's plan to rebuild trust in Windows.
ImprovizoR
Well-known member
Could it be that it dawned on them that the bubble is about to burst? I just can't believe that without a change in leadership this will amount to much. People tend to be married to their ideas. Salty Nutella won't just give up on his vision.
NeverBackDown
AMD Enthusiast
Start with 10 and remove the ads. Improve it's performance. Modernize feature sets. Leave it alone. Better than 11 at that point.
WYP
News Guru
Pavan Davuluri was promoted to his role last September, and his first change was to reverse the Windows team's 2018 split. An effort is clearly being made to make Windows better. That said, it will take a while for us to see the results of this. We also need Microsoft to not mess it all up... which is a big ask.
Microsoft must know that its Copilot gambit failed to sell new PCs, and it knows that more competition is coming with Google's new OS and desktop SteamOS. Without a fix, Microsoft's gravy train will stop. Their big problem is that they don't need to fix just one thing.
g0ggles1994
Active member
I still firmly believe that whilst they say this now, the next update will still be AI focused and will bring about more intrusive copilot integration.
Don't believe it, with the ever increasing slop being dished out.
AI is being added to everything in Windows, and the ever increasing ways of trying to force you into using a microsoft account instead of a local account, not being able to use the built in Backup function without it backing up to the cloud and the ever increasing number of bugs, I honestly think Microsoft is going to see it's market dominance be eroded quite a bit this year and next.
Once game developers start to support Vulcan fully and move away from DirectX, the sooner Windows is killed off for gamers as long as someone creates a distro that cannot be nuked with 1 command and is easy to use for the "I am a pc gamer but I don't know what a driver is" folk.
Businesses are already moving to Linux or Apple's because of Microsoft's ever increasing "We want all the data from your machine" including private data.
Windows will never really go away but it will become the 2nd choice hopefully fairly soon for a large majority of people.
The only way I see Windows getting better is:
Back to the Windows 8 kernal because that was faster than XP, 7, 10 and 11 iirc
Back to Windows 7 GUI
Back to Windows 10 for features minus the spyware and adverts etc
Back to testing updates before releasing
Back to charging full price for Windows none of this "buy a £3.99 key from X site" and none of the "Free upgrades" like they did from 7 to 10 and 7 to 11
Back to allowing users to control the OS and not be limited in what we can do because "Oh know that would increase energy consumption"
I cannot be bothered to list the rest but I do not expect them to go back to making windows good, they will as I say carry on with the AI slop and making it worse.
It is so annoying seeing my 7900x3d, 64G ram on a PCI-E 4 NVME drive take so long to boot, compared to how long it used to take to boot into Windows 7 or Windows 8, but I suppose it wasn't loading so much spyware back then.
AI is being added to everything in Windows, and the ever increasing ways of trying to force you into using a microsoft account instead of a local account, not being able to use the built in Backup function without it backing up to the cloud and the ever increasing number of bugs, I honestly think Microsoft is going to see it's market dominance be eroded quite a bit this year and next.
Once game developers start to support Vulcan fully and move away from DirectX, the sooner Windows is killed off for gamers as long as someone creates a distro that cannot be nuked with 1 command and is easy to use for the "I am a pc gamer but I don't know what a driver is" folk.
Businesses are already moving to Linux or Apple's because of Microsoft's ever increasing "We want all the data from your machine" including private data.
Windows will never really go away but it will become the 2nd choice hopefully fairly soon for a large majority of people.
The only way I see Windows getting better is:
Back to the Windows 8 kernal because that was faster than XP, 7, 10 and 11 iirc
Back to Windows 7 GUI
Back to Windows 10 for features minus the spyware and adverts etc
Back to testing updates before releasing
Back to charging full price for Windows none of this "buy a £3.99 key from X site" and none of the "Free upgrades" like they did from 7 to 10 and 7 to 11
Back to allowing users to control the OS and not be limited in what we can do because "Oh know that would increase energy consumption"
I cannot be bothered to list the rest but I do not expect them to go back to making windows good, they will as I say carry on with the AI slop and making it worse.
It is so annoying seeing my 7900x3d, 64G ram on a PCI-E 4 NVME drive take so long to boot, compared to how long it used to take to boot into Windows 7 or Windows 8, but I suppose it wasn't loading so much spyware back then.
KingNosser
Well-known member
Took all the AI junk out of my install it's gone gone and can't comeback either litterally gone zip nadda nutting 
Dicehunter
Resident Newb
Windows 11 has shown to outpace Windows 10 in a few games, Marginally, I very much like Window 11's AutoHDR and general performance once you debloat it using Winhance or MicroWin is really good... now if Microsoft could debloat W11 without 3rd parties needing to put in the work, Work on making it even more performant, Get rid of the data harvesting/spyware, Make AI an optional downloadable pack and make sure updates are properly QA'd prior to release, Then Microsoft would be onto a winner.
AngryGoldfish
Old N Gold
Yeah, I used a debloat tool like King and Dice mentioned. Windows 11 is smooth and sparse. There's still some features from 10 that I miss, but with just a little learning and tweaking I was able to get W11 running smoothly with no interruptions.
NeverBackDown
AMD Enthusiast
I personally just stick with 10. Only a couple ads but easily removed. No security updates isn't really a big deal for anybody with common sense.
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