Windows 11 under pressure because of AI: Microsoft hears the negative feedback and promises to rectify the situation
Eager to transform Windows 11 as an “agentic” operating system, Microsoft has been strongly criticized for its ever-more focused turn towards artificial intelligence. By alienating a lot of people, it is time to procrastinate. The opportunity for Pavan Davaluri, head of Windows at Microsoft, to allay fears and make reassuring promises.
The race for AI on Windows 11 slowed down by its users
“Windows is evolving into an agentic operating system, connecting devices, cloud and AI to unlock intelligent productivity and secure work anywhere”, that was the announcement on Pavan Davaluri’s Twitter/X last week. Beautiful words surely designed to seduce investors, which have clearly been criticized by users of the operating system.
It must be said that bugs persist on the OS, with PCs unstable with each update due to new bugs. Bet even more about AIsupposedly to increase productivity tenfold, without offering a solid base free of problems, therefore seems idyllic in the current situation. The head of Windows at Microsoft has also decided to deactivate responses to his publication in the face of the outcry generated.
We finally had to wait until this Saturday to have an update from himfaced with a developer unhappy (Gergely Orosz) with the direction taken by Microsoft around Windows. “I read the reviews and noticed that there was a lot of emphasis on aspects like reliability, performance, ease of use, etc.”we can read in the preamble.
“There is work to be done on the user experience, both in terms of daily ergonomics, with inconsistent dialog boxes, and in terms of the advanced user experience”adds Pavan Davaluri, reaffirming Microsoft’s strong interest in attracting developers with Windows.
It now remains to be seen how all this will materialize between, on the one hand, the desire to continue the AI race so as not to be behind the competition, and the need to satisfy the community of current developers and users thanks to foolproof stability.
For now, Pavan Davaluri’s answer did not seduce Gergely Orosz: “We developers choose systems where WE have control and get good performance. And we hate ads in paid products. Mac and Linux perform well in this area. Windows struggles to meet all three criteria”.
