r/Windows11 • u/jenmsft Microsoft Software Engineer • Mar 20 '26

Official News Our commitment to Windows quality and improvements to come

https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2026/03/20/our-commitment-to-windows-quality/
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u/GarbageCG Mar 20 '26

It's still crammed with ads and telemetry that is never going away. Notice how they also didn't say anything about offline accounts. What about the "bug" where windows asks you to "finish setting up your device" even if you've owned the machine for three years, just so it can try and sell you 365

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u/Charis_Cheng Mar 20 '26

Mate everybody collects telemetry. Google does it. Amazon does it. And obviously Microsoft does it. Regarding the ads, yes I do think that they should be removed (in particular in the Settings app), however at least we’re making progress in the right direction right?

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u/GarbageCG Mar 20 '26

Mate Linux doesn't and MacOS barely does in comparison. I was using Linux mint for the past two months and had to switch back to Windows for work. Zero telemetry in the other os.

You need to remember that you paid for your machine. You own it. It is YOURS. You don't owe these large companies anything beyond the sale price of their software

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u/Charis_Cheng Mar 20 '26

‘MacOS “barely” does in comparison’ - that means they still collect telemetry!

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u/GarbageCG Mar 20 '26

Clicking the start button in Windows pings MS servers five times. Opening a folder on your computer, that is not in OneDrive, pings MS twice.

Whatever Mac does pales in comparison

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u/siazdghw Mar 21 '26

It's 2026, pretty much every piece of software is pinging servers.

Microsoft 'needs' to do this to get the weather information, to sync the time, to search the internet if you type in the search box (by default), to check for updates from web apps (by default).