Microsoft is walking back Windows 11's AI overload

Post by ahartmetz » Mon, Feb 02, 2026, 10:33 PM UTC

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Well if its done in a dumb-as-a-fuck hostile style that whole world complaints for years , such effort and PM is utter failure and their CV should be tarnished with this for next 2 decades. And its up to us as a IT community to make it happen. They harmed massively their own company, and failed at the most core reason why they were hired - add long term value to the company. Its a bit the equivalent of architect buil…

I saw a presentation awhile back which included the slide (roughly): "Give a PM a numerical goal, and they will burn the company down to hit it." As someone who has worked in big tech and seen decision-making in action, I 100% believe it. This is how incentives are structured.

Post by mancerayder » Tue, Feb 03, 2026, 12:01 AM UTC

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The dumbification of Control Panel to Settings was one of the factors for me. I'm not sure if Control Panel is still available, hidden away somewhere, but I've since moved on to pastures that only seen to get greener when compared with the Microsoft Windows paddock. They're somehow finding new shades of brown on a monthly basis.

It's the movement, a vast Zeitgeist of evil, away from categorizing and organization, and towards Search. I hate it. I was looking at how to fix the dark screen that resulted from turning on HDR in Windows 11, which some games need at the OS level for some reason, and Search was never giving me the Exact Keyword you need. Search is always a guessing game, and you end up Googling the answer, it's so incredibly ineffic…

Post by beAbU » Tue, Feb 03, 2026, 12:05 AM UTC

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Apple's not great, but Microsoft is worse.

Nothing about Apple's naming schemes seems immediately rage-inducing. Sure, their stuff is bland, and I think it's stupid how people refer to doing things "on iPhone" instead of "on an iPhone", but otherwise Apple's products are mostly descriptive. Garage Band has to do with music, Pages is a word processor, iCloud is a cloud storage thing, etc. But even the Labrador licking his own balls that someone else mentioned…

Post by beAbU » Tue, Feb 03, 2026, 12:08 AM UTC

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> The question Microsoft should ask themselves is why they built them in the first place It seems like everyone except MS themselves knows why: they got tunnel vision from Azure and AI, and completely forgot about what actually made them successful. Hell they even burnt down one of the most famous brands in the world, MS Office, for zero reason other than to try and whitewash their Copilot name. The marketing guys wh…

I don't know about Windows, but it will take a lot more enshittification than that to burn down the Office brand. Excel alone carries it to dominance.

Post by kayamon » Tue, Feb 03, 2026, 12:29 AM UTC

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It's in the actual currency. It's easy to have a large denomination of dollars if the currency is collapsing due to hyperinflation.

I certainly hope you are not suggesting that USA is experiencing hyperinflation...?