--- title: Microsoft is going to change for you | daily.dev description: Microsoft announced plans to rebuild trust in Windows by focusing on user-requested improvements rather than AI features. In 2026, they'll prioritize... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/microsoft-is-going-to-change-for-you-faj8ecpqz twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Microsoft is going to change for you | daily.dev og:description: Microsoft announced plans to rebuild trust in Windows by focusing on user-requested improvements rather than AI features. In 2026, they'll prioritize... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/microsoft-is-going-to-change-for-you-faj8ecpqz og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/fAJ8ecPqZ.png og:image:alt: Microsoft is going to change for you og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Microsoft is going to change for you **[TechLinked](https://daily.dev/sources/techlinked)** · 1 min read · 37 upvotes · 24 comments ## Summary Microsoft announced plans to rebuild trust in Windows by focusing on user-requested improvements rather than AI features. In 2026, they'll prioritize fundamentals like fixing dark mode in Windows 11, addressing File Explorer performance issues, improving reliability, and reducing intrusive popups for Edge and Bing. This shift comes after community feedback about tone-deaf promises around agentic OS features. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@pwitham** · 7 upvotes > Well, only taken them since Windows 95 to realize that they should actually listen to users. Too late Microsoft, my gaming machine has moved on. **@petermrozek** · 4 upvotes > So, it seems the "move to Linux" movement has made enough of a ruckus for Microsoft to actually consider it's users needs? 🧐 Or maybe the users became eeally vocal about it? 😁 > > Hope for both of them, but at the same time I'm not keeping my fingers crossed. It's still Microsoft we're talking about - a matter of time before they do something to scare away another group of people. 🙃 **@nubprogrammer** · 3 upvotes > Still linux it is **@hvk500** · 2 upvotes > Too late brah... Damage done **@bigmoses** · 2 upvotes > The fact that you are not able to create a local user on Windows 11 when initially booted, without CMD, says everything you need to know about their intentions. Them listening to users is just awful damage control. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Windows 11’s 2025 problems are getting impossible to ignore](https://daily.dev/posts/windows-11-s-2025-problems-are-getting-impossible-to-ignore-k8buasaeg) · Hacker News · 5 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#linux](https://daily.dev/tags/linux), [#microsoft](https://daily.dev/tags/microsoft), [#windows](https://daily.dev/tags/windows) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/microsoft-is-going-to-change-for-you-faj8ecpqz) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Microsoft is going to change for you","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/microsoft-is-going-to-change-for-you-faj8ecpqz","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/microsoft-is-going-to-change-for-you-faj8ecpqz"},"datePublished":"2026-02-03T22:37:08.876Z","dateModified":"2026-02-03T22:37:24.738Z","description":"Microsoft announced plans to rebuild trust in Windows by focusing on user-requested improvements rather than AI features. 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