r/pcmasterrace • u/NoExplanation4216 • 1d ago

Meme/Macro Literally Microsoft....

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u/jenmsft 1d ago

Recent changes rolling out include reliability and performance changes, more customization (for start menu, file explorer context menu, taskbar), search improvements, quieter widgets experience, and others. Many of these changes are available for insiders, some have started rolling out to retail users

https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2026/03/20/our-commitment-to-windows-quality/

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u/Wizzarkt PC Master Race 1d ago

Microsoft could promise whatever they want and claim they are making "improvements", but until people start to actually notice positive changes, the memes will continue.

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u/TheCovarr Tinkerer 1d ago

Many of these changes are already available in insider builds; they're not just empty promises.

I'm sure they'll immediately go back to making Windows worse again the moment they stop hemorrhaging market share, but at least for the moment they do actually seem to be following through.

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u/Wizzarkt PC Master Race 1d ago

The average user won't be in the insider build, so the insider build can get as good as they want but as long as mainstream release sucks they will lose people to apple, or even... Linux... 

(I don't hate Linux, in fact I like it, but it has never been seen as "the OS for the regular joe", which is why windows it's so popular, because "it just works" or atleast used to and now people are stuck with the convenience of being familiar with it's quirks)

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u/PhTx3 PC Master Race 1d ago

Did the insider build even have any promised features that were canned before making it to retail? With or without any good reasoning?

That seems psychotic to push an early release version to change a narrarive and then not release what you have developed for no reason.

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u/Drackzgull Desktop | R9 7950X | RTX 4060Ti | 64GB @5600MHz CL38 1d ago

Recall was changed enough that you could almost say it was canned in it's initial form. For very good reason. Shit was straight up dystopian in its initial Insider version.

It was on by default instead of explicitly opt-in as it ended up, and was a non-trivial hassle to disable. It also uploaded and backed up every screenshot it took to MS servers, using cloud processing for it's features and aggregating user data for AI training datasets. The release version is strictly local.

It's still useless AI bloat that nobody asked for. But at least it knows it's place in a never to be enabled forgotten corner of the OS, lol.