You simply cannot vibe code a good operating system.

Hell, they weren't doing too well before that, either. The whole creepy "we know better" vibe was pretty noticeable before the advent of LLMs too - although of course it's made it a ton worse. But they were always inept and douchy to boot.

As the joke goes, "Do you think Microsoft understands consent? Yes / Maybe yes later"

(Personally I think 11 is way worse than Vista - in isolation, relative to the previous one, morally, somehow UX wise, pretty much any metric you want.)

They believe they have a captive audience.

The day they killed off Windows Phone is they day I knew that there were no more devs left in the c-suite and that they were on a slow path to spinning off what’s left of their profitability.

xbox is a dumpster fire too

Windows 11 was just supposed to be Windows 10 with just an UI change and some more features, but with the slop code it's become extremely annoying.

I BOUGHT 10, then abandoned at 11 because 10 pro OEM converted to home. Home prevents you from running the console snap in tools you need to administer your system.