Microsoft's turned Windows into a cesspool, but it wants to do better
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[1]Relentless Copilot pushing , the [2]second-chance out-of-box experience , a bunch of sloppy, [3]buggy patches , and other bad decisions have plagued the Windows maker in recent months. CEO Satya Nadella and Windows boss Pavan Davuluri have promised to make good, but will they?
This week's Kettle sees host Brandon Vigliarolo joined by US editor Avram Piltch and Microsoft reporter Richard Speed to talk about what's going wrong at Microsoft, and whether the company has lost the thread.
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[3] https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/31/microsoft_out_of_band/
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Concur.
Thirded.
In terms of communicating information, it's about as efficient as searching the web for "how to do X " and being offered those youtube videos that take 10 minutes HEY GUYS REMEMBER TO LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE to communicate a perfectly simple FIRST A WORD FROM OUR SPONSORS! point that could be explained in 5 lines of text & a diagram.
Bah, ignore me, I am just grumpy today.
What's wrong at Redmond?
It'd be far more succinct to answer "what's right at Redmond?".
From my perspective, about all they have going for them is market-share. Nothing else from that camp is trustworthy.
In order to regain trust, it'd probably be easier to close the entire place down, dump (or open-source[0]) all the existing source code, and start again from scratch with absolutely none of the current management. And even then I would hesitate to trust anything coming out of Microsoft.
[0] As a gesture of goodwill.
Transcript please. Podcasts are a turnoff.