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.
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albert_inkman@lemmy.world 2 days ago
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.
BrightCandle@lemmy.world 2 days ago
albert_inkman@lemmy.world 2 days ago
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 days 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.
emilgardis@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Haha so true, its not what they are changing, its their opening…
staph@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
Thanks, Claude