Microsoft keeps insisting that it’s deeply committed to the quality of Windows 11

"Reducing unnecessary Copilot entry points" is one of Microsoft's action items.

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[Boskone]

Maybe the should just buy File Pilot and replace File Explorer all together?

https://filepilot.tech/

Nah, people shouldn't have to buy a product to replace a previously-functional one.

To add features that aren't useful to the common user? Sure. There's a lot of things I'll do that someone like my mom won't.

Buy it for mom because the built-in file explorer doesn't work well anymore for exploring files? No.

 

[Boskone]

I have to use Win11 at work - it was that or Mac, and since I had 0 relevant Mac experience (last use was a horrid experience in 1993)

FWIW, MacOS isn't bad these days.

I switched Mom over when her NUC started shitting itself like a toddler let loose in a chocolate-covered bacon booth. There were a few hiccoughs, but nothing too major; she's happily using it now, and hasn't dropped back to the NUC in at least a couple months other than to find some odd file she hadn't copied over.

Maybe talk with your IT people and see if you can get a Mac to try out for a while?

 

[Boskone]

Then watch them manage to “fix” it by only letting you pin it to the left edge of the left-most monitor. It’s always the monkey paw with this lot.

Or it'll reset it's position every time the monitor layout changes, making it useless for docked laptops.

 

[Boskone]

The more I've stewed on it, the more irritated I am. Why did they let it get so bad that they felt like they had to put out this message? Couldn't they have just not let it become super shitty over the last few years? It remains to be seen whether they can fix it, but why are they actually taking the time to acknowledge it?

I think it's a sort of "tail wagging the dog" moment.

Some sales analyst sees that everyone's selling AI stuff, so they put in AI stuff. People like (or at least tolerate) the bars in MacOS, iOS, and Android, so they fix the bar to the bottom.

Then they find that the expectations were wrong, and you end up with statements like this.

I don't think they've really realized it, though. I doubt they'll stop, re-evaluate the problems with Windows, and work to correct them; they'll just grind down the highest points of friction and call it good.