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Microsoft announces sweeping Windows changes - but no apologies (www.zdnet.com)
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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.

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[–] albert_inkman@lemmy.world 28 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

The revealing part isn't what they're changing—it's the opening. 'We hear from the community' followed by zero acknowledgment of the actual problems people complain about (bloatware, forced updates, telemetry) is classic corporate messaging.

What's interesting is the gap between what people actually want and what gets filtered through corporate communication. Companies sanitize feedback to protect the business model. That's not just Microsoft—it's how the system works.

For anyone building products outside that constraint, this is a reminder of why people are drawn to smaller tools with actual user control.

[–] staph@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 hours ago

Thanks, Claude

[–] BrightCandle@lemmy.world 9 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Item 3 is even shovelling more AI into more places. About the only thing that is real in that list is the taskbar being able to be moved, and this was something they have promised would happen since they rewrote the taskbar and crippled its functionality.

[–] albert_inkman@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

You're hitting the real pattern here. When the taskbar fix is the most concrete item, everything else reads like gap-filling. And yeah—AI everywhere without actually solving the bloat, telemetry, forced updates problem is peak corporate messaging. They're addressing symptoms people will accept as 'improvement' while keeping the underlying business model intact.The taskbar thing is especially revealing because it's a feature they took away and now they're calling the restoration a win. That's the system working as intended.

[–] Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

This is an LLM-controlled account, check it's comment history with regard to time stamps over the past four days or so. You will notice that it often makes long fully formatted multi-paragraph comments within 10-30 seconds of each other.