Too little to late.. I already left and fell in love with Linux

Windows 11 felt like a downgrade before all the AI bs. Microsoft values me more as an advertising opportunity than a customer.

I read "reevaluating its AI strategy on Windows 11" as "finding a more subtle way to shove that botulistic sausage down their customers throats".

I think it's really easy for Lemmy users to assume that the general population has the same technological interest and literacy that they do.

The Windows 11 users they are talking about are from an /r/pcmasterrace thread.

The vast, vast majority of consumers don't give a shit. They don't care enough to even think about whether their computer is actually secure, they don't care that they don't own their OS, and they don't care that AI is being shoved in.

Their computer is a magic box to them, and they don't care to know more.

I think the best way to turn people on to Linux is to give them a bootable live USB, so they can try it out. Otherwise, they have no basis for comparison.

Too many people just accept whatever Microsoft gives them, shrug and think, "Well, I guess this is just the way computers are."

The Start menu has gotten worse with every update. It is getting ridiculous.
I can no longer click start > type in the program I need > hit enter.
Start menu, you had one job!

Windows 11 feels like Microsoft is actively punishing me for being foolish enough to keep using their products. Adding some janky AI bullshit machine to this garbage fire feels now they're just taking the piss.

Microsoft's promises to fix the OS and stop pushing AI

Never heard such a promise.

What sucks is - windows is the easiest to jump off. There are tons of viable alternatives.

There is nothing for mobile.

Remember: Companies don't learn lessons, they react to profits. They're 100% gonna boil the frog here.

i don’t believe it and am no longer giving them the chance to allow me to see it.

Microsoft hasn't made a decent OS since Windows 7, why would they start now?

Great news, you don't have to bother, just switch to Linux. I did, and I don't have to spend a single moment worrying about what Microsoft is doing to their garbage.

know who never pushed AI?

Linux.

know who has fixes or useful community support?

Linux.

know who doesn't scan your desktop every second to scrape your data?

Linux.

know who has the audacity to provide a free product and still doesn't sell your identity to the lowest bidders?

Linux.

holy shit, it's almost like Linux is the OS by the people for the people...

There's a threshold that you pass and once you do there's no going back because the trust is lost forever and customers will go the next chance they get.

It looks like this is finally the point we might have reached with windows.

and this is why I use Linux. No forced AI nonsense being shoved down my neck.

Sorry, I can't hear you over all the Linux on my computers since last year. Did you say "promises to shit on the OS and super push AI?" Yeah, sounds about right for Microslop.

Do you believe them that they gonna stop AI? It's a billion investment that needs results for the shareholders!

I'll believe it when I see it

Why? Why even wanna see it? Just walk away, go to Linux, and find that suddenly you own your computer again

They'll stop pushing AI by integrating it throughout the system similar to how Internet Explorer is tied to everything. Except much more invasive.

Their goal is certainly not reducing AI, it's making it seamlessly incorporated in everything you do.

even being cynical towards microsoft at this point looks to me like sheepish adoration. If you have any hope that microsoft might start doing better you are naive.

No they aren't. They don't care.

In this update this month they prioritized the app store over local results. I tried to type powershell (work computer) on the start menu, and now it offers me the app store link BEFORE my installed powershell. Yeah I'm sure they're going to change course.

Like 5 years too late for me, I ditched Winslop bit over 4 years ago, never looked back. Yes, it's not perfect, not everything works out of the box and I have to search for solutions every now and then but it's My Computer again.

Microsoft my sweet summer child, it's not just the ai. It's the Spyware wrapped in a Windows shell. Call me when I can install without needing an MS account.

Microslop could do absolutely anything to Windows and it wouldn't make me go back because it would be Microslop doing it.

The damage has been done. But honestly, Windows 11 changed my life despite its shortcomings.

So thank you, Microslop, for making me embrace Linux.

Microsoft appears to be finally listening to users

They're not, never will.

I don't think windows is an OS anymore. It just the personification of the checkout questions they ask you at GameStop or BestBuy about the extended warranty or magazine subscription.

Their stock tanking like 12% must have been a wake up call