Microsoft is working to rebuild trust in Windows

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Way too fucking late for that.

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!

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

It seems like we’re at a real turning point for Linux adoption. I’m an Apple nerd, but I love seeing people switch to Linux and write about what a (mostly) positive experience it is. Cheers to my fellow nerds getting off the screaming pile of garbage MS if forcing on people who just want a computer that works.

Translation: They going to try to “marketing” their way out of this hole.

Nothing about Windows or Microsoft will fundamentally change.

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

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

Bullshit.

"Fuck this shit…"

lol

Lmao, even

Also, hi from bazzite, which runs the vast majority of games I’m interested in flawless, and usually with even better performance than W10 (let alone W11)

Didn't they have to pull a botched update like last week?

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.

Next week:

“We’ve listened to your feedback and have made the hard decision. Copilot will henceforth bear the likeness of Clippy”

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

Source code or perish.

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

The problem is upper management. Without touching that there is no hope for improvement.

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

I personally just want a glorified calculator (that works on text too) I can trust in doing what I tell it to do. And not some "experience" that does all kinds of unspecified things in the background. But that's just me.

I prefer to use Linux. Arch Linux.

In other news, doctor prescribes a bandaid to GSW victim

Let me guess: instead of improving their products, they're going to get the US security industrial complex to silence the critics.

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

Great, so windows 9 is going to come out?

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

Are they, tho?

good luck with that.

Could've fooled me...

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

Yah, that's bullshit. They hate their users and want them dead but buying things somehow.

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

And people in hell want ice water.

... 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.

Too little, too fucking late!

Fuck 'em

Make it less shit dumbass

Ha. I thought this was from The Onion the first time I scrolled past it. What a hilarious joke. I hope it back fires so people and countries continue moving away from Windows.

The biggest problem is that even if they fix it, it will take ages for the people that left to believe it is actually fixed. We can't take MS's word for it... And even then we will have no trust they won't just slip right back into this hellscape a couple years (or months) down the line.

Fire your current dipshit in chief, issue abject apologies and realise you peaked with 7.

Too late

Doubt

Lol. Buhbyeeeeee

Looking back, these will be the times that trump destroyed america and microsoft destroyed itself. Maybe america destroyed itself and trump was nothing more than the guy who squeezed the pimple.

I bet more AI and ads will make people trust it even more

Talk is cheap.

"improve user experience and stability"

Are they though?

My 4 part plan to put Microsoft back on track.

1: Re-open support for Windows 10 until at least 2 years after the release date of the next version of Windows.

2: Commit to making the next version of Windows less intrusive, cleaner, more reliable, and a small as technically possible.

3: Fully fund the open source projects that Microsoft relies on for their products.

4: Make Co-pilot an optional toolkit that runs in the background, with tight, easily configured controls and hook-ins to other applications and data.

Please put me in charge of Microsoft. I'll do it for a measly 10 million dollars a year. You'll save so much on my salary alone, you practically can't afford not to hire me.

Hilarious

Too late

one quiet “merp merp” from a three-foot tuxedo in the back of an otherwise completely silent and unimpressed audience

By releasing windows 12?

"Improving", the agentic OS thing? Or did they step back from that?

Microslop has been a rotten cesspool since it's birth. 50 years of consistently fucking over it's customers, then promising to change followed by more screwing so please forgive me when I say to this Don't... Talk ... Shit ...

I hate Windows, always did, always will. My final trial with that garbage system was last April when I installed Fedora on a bootable thumb drive. I might be one of the few people left who couldn't care less what microsoft does. Here's hoping they only make decisions that make people trust them less.

I haven't had any trust since in Windows since about mid Windows 7 and that was probably unfounded.

why even bother, windows isnt even 10% of their income. Just milk that cow and try to not let everyone know that azure is all running linux.

They shouldn't have done their update today then. My fonts look like ass.

By putting out shitty updates that break basic, critical thing? Like email and chat?

That is corporate speak for Microsoft is going to spend millions on a PR campaign.

Same song and dance since at least Windows me. Overtime it keeps getting more bloated and focused on advertising. If you got to use Windows at work, it is what it is but at home, get over it and switch to Linux already. It’s very clear that all the complaining of the world has little chance to ever get Windows to be what people want it to be

lmao. microflop is outdated, dusty and crusty.

Too late, for me at least

Bs. This is a marketing campaign at best.

Good luck.

Way too late, at least for me.

I've switched over to CachyOS on three devices. My main laptop, a spare laptop(for the wife to try), and a gaming PC. All three are great and easy to use. No stupid pop ups, no AI, and I don't have to worry about it not booting up compared to Windows(which this was the opposite 10 years ago!).

At this point even if they make a great OS and call it Windows 12 I have zero faith that they won't reverse and make Windows 13 terrible.

At least with Linux I have a dozen or so options to choose from and they all work just fine. So if CachyOS becomes terrible(doubt) then I'll switch to something else.

At this point Windows needs to go above and beyond and be stable for YEARS and multiple versions before I switch back, which big doubt.

It's definitely fucking not doing that. It may say that it's going to work hard on it's problems but like any 'too big to fail' monopolistic piece of shit company, they're going to continue doing whatever the fuck they want and ignoring their end users.

They are failing.

Trash

😂 could have fooled me!