Microsoft's Windows boss just sent out a long non-apology to frustrated Windows 11 users, promising big changes. Here's a translation of what you can really expect.

In a long post titled “Our commitment to Windows quality,” published on Microsoft’s website and sent via email to millions of members of the Windows Insider Program, Windows boss Pavan Davuluri laid out a laundry list of changes Microsoft plans to make in Windows 11, starting this month.

What’s most remarkable about this post is what it doesn’t contain. Here’s how Davuluri kicked things off:

Every day, we hear from the community about how you experience Windows. And over the past several months, the team and I have spent a great deal of time analyzing your feedback. What came through was the voice of people who care deeply about Windows and want it to be better.

That paragraph belongs in the non-apology Hall of Fame, with a cross-reference to “Friday news dump” – a classic PR technique that aims to minimize media coverage of the awkward news being released.

  • Lydon_Feen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    101·
    18 hours ago

    The sweepingest of changes to Windows?

    Moving to Linux.

    I encourage everyone to take a major dump on Microslop and move to greener pastures

    • somethingDotExe@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      8 hours ago

      I did the jump 3 years ago, now Linux is the “normal” for me. Couldn’t imagine having a Windows machine anymore. Not even a Mac.

      • Lydon_Feen@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        4 hours ago

        I am a more recent convert, having switched last year to Bazzite on my desktop and Linux Mint on my laptop. I also installed Mint on the desktop computer at work.

        No dual-booting, all Linux all the way.

        Screw Microsoft and the likes of Apple.

        • somethingDotExe@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          3 hours ago

          Ye, I remember the first 3-4 months where horrible. Started out with kubuntu, and everything felt wrong and broken.

          But I can say this: The past 3 years has been amazing for linux. It really went crazy with the amount of things you can use now but not before. The past 2 years I havent had anything in my household other than linux. Even my mother and brother got onbpard, who isn’t IT capeable at all! It’s really a special time for linux and easy for folks to get on-board now.

          • Regrettable_incident@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            1 hour ago

            My tech knowledge is not at all current, recently got sick of windows BS and installed linux mint on my laptop. The whole process was really easy, didn’t have to use command prompt at all or understand any arcane technical terms. It was actually easier and more accessible than windows.

    • Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish
      37·
      15 hours ago

      It really is greener there. Been there for almost two decades, it’s so nice. Been tweaking my setup ever since and it’s still evolving all the time.

      My last venture has been Niri + Noctalia shell. Works so great together.