The main “beef” I have at a personal level is the failure of Microsoft to even acknowledge the quagmire of destitute they have bestowed on customers with Windows 11 in recent months. Total garbage in many instances where we expect a company who has been doing what they do for 40 years or so to get it right. The second “beef” I have is their Insider Program taking front and center regarding what goes in and is left out of these test builds that trash so many of our devices. Most insiders are gamers, they run gaming hardware and focus only on that realm of reality they live in. This excludes and leave bare, the rest of the computing world without so much as a suggestion. Many companies are taking that model and running with it like wild horses, using unwilling customers to do the testing and risking their hardware in doing so. The quotable quote standing out for me is below:
Article: Microsoft announces sweeping Windows changes - but no apologies | ZDNET
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.
When I read that paragraph, I was gobsmacked. They “spent months analyzing feedback”? Seriously? They needed charts and graphs to figure out that people just want Windows to work?
Microsoft announces sweeping Windows changes - but no apologies | ZDNET
Where else do we hear this? I’m not naming any one company or companies here, but!! Its the classic business model across much of the technology word.
Less AI slop and what the CEO attempts to gaslight everyone about:
In a blog post welcoming 2026, CEO Satya Nadella argued that “we need to get beyond the arguments of slop vs. sophistication.” In response, the internet made “Microslop” the most popular meme of the new year.
That last quote put the epic into the former top level statement at the entry of this post doesn’t it?
And please read the “And more” ending paragraph in the article as well. This is the WOW statement that makes my head sweat.
As always that is just the pinion of one person, me and is in no way reflective of the larger tech community out there. My bottom line thought is that MS has done a serious injustice to its user base for the sake of insiders, gaming hardware and putting slop on the table for public consumption. For a second time killing a well rounded OS (Windows 10) as they did with Windows 7 is going to open the flood gates for a fresh and major change in OS market share by Linux. When companies get too big to fail, not humbling enough to, disregard transparency for ALL their customers thoughts and needs, its a trademark for failure.
Regards,
SA