GoKawiilmacOS Tahoe may have its critics, but even Microsoft is struggling to find things to like about Windows 11. The company has announced plans to turn things around this year. The solution? Fewer ads in the operating system and a moveable version of their equivalent of the Dock to start.
macOS Tahoe struggles with contrast; Windows 11 just struggles
Apple’s biggest challenge with the Mac right now is that macOS Tahoe isn’t as polished as it was before the Liquid Glass redesign.
macOS 26 struggles with contrast in a lot of areas, windows have different corner designs depending on when the app was last updated, and a lot of the icons are questionably designed.
Apple is still iterating on Liquid Glass design elements on the iPhone in iOS 26.4, and that’s expected to continue in iOS 27. We hope the Mac receives the same attention in macOS 27. The biggest question is what Apple will call its next California-themed desktop OS.
Meanwhile, the Mac is breaking launch records, thanks in large part to the threat to Windows PCs that is the $599 MacBook Neo. Apple can’t make enough of these yet.
Microsoft has a plan to fix Windows
Meanwhile, Apple’s friends in Redmond have a plan to turn things around for Windows 11.
As Windows Central Senior Editor Zac Bowden puts it, Microsoft has unveiled “several major changes to Windows 11 in an effort to win back user trust and evolve the platform into something people will actually want to use over macOS and Linux!”
The plan includes reducing the number of ads that appear in the operating system — wait, what? Ads in the OS? Well, I guess Apple did send a push notification about its race car movie … once.
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