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Microsoft says it's refocusing Windows on performance and reliability.
File Explorer, Search, and Start are getting responsiveness fixes.
The pressure to add new AI-based annoyances hasn't gone away.
Earlier this year, Microsoft Windows boss Pavan Davuluri wrote an open letter addressed to the Windows Insider community but really aimed at a much larger cohort of frustrated Windows enthusiasts and power users.
That post laid out a laundry list of improvements that would be coming to Windows: more control over updates, a "more intentional" approach to AI, more attention to performance and reliability, and some enhancements to the user experience that customers have been complaining about for five solid years.
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"We're listening to customer feedback" was the ostensible message, but the subtext was really a confession that Microsoft had been ignoring customer feedback for years.
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