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Our Commitment to Windows Quality

https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2026/03/20/our-commitment-to-windows-quality/

Mar 20 at 7:16pmWeb
Show threadpndyMar 20

Nothing on limiting dependence on online account/services and forced hardware requirements. The rest sounds like every text people could read for decades during Windows installation.

Sorry Microsoft, some people already transfer to a different train because you offered a crazy ride.

Show threadgzreadMar 20
Listen to their actions, not their words.
Show threadsatiricMar 20
Of course the proof in the pudding is in the eating, but just saying that they want to do this stuff is at least a slight improvement over before, where we mostly just saw apathy and enshittification. It's also a promise that people can hold them to if they fail.
Show threadSomeone1234Mar 20

They're saying all the right things here.

Fixing long-standing complaints, removing Copilot from obnoxious places, improvements to Windows Update and Windows Explorer stability/microstutter/lag, etc.

I congratulate them on seeing sense, and I congratulate Apple on another victory with the Neo. Kind of frustrating that's what it took for Microsoft to finally listen to their userbase.

Show threadbinsquareMar 20

Don't congratulate yet until you see actual outcomes.

The author of this commitment is the same person (Pavan Davuluri) spearheading move of Windows into an Agentic OS: https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/windows-...

Windows president says platform is "evolving into an agentic OS," gets cooked in the replies — "Straight up, nobody wants this"

Microsoft's current Windows lead Pavan Davuluri has tweeted that the future of Windows will be one that evolves into an agentic OS, but has received significant pushback online.

Windows Central
Show threaddarigMar 20
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Show threaditopaloglu83Mar 20

I'm sorry but I need to see it to believe it. Otherwise who can explain, how the Windows Explorer struggles to list 20 files.

How is it even possible to spend 4-5 seconds to show a list of files in a local freaking folder?

Show threadwinwangMar 20
...I almost thought it was a parody site!
Show threadgrafdaMar 20
Feels like screaming "please don't leave us, we will now build what you ask for". On the one hand, this is great to hear, but on the other side I wonder how much this will matter. Apple is now winning on the hardware other than offering a better UX experience. But they also have lost their touch with it over the years!
Show threadthe__alchemistMar 20

I am sus. Optimistic but sus. I am hoping for some combo of:

- MS doing what they say here. (Uphill battle given the perverse incentives others have mentioned) My gut says Windows is going to be *worse* vs better, and I am willing to settle for stagnating...

- Linux desktop makers taking UX, ABI/linking compatibility, and "just works" seriously.


It's like you could take the good from both and discard the bad, but it hasn't happened yet.