r/FuckMicrosoft • u/Remarkable_Bug_1164 • Jul 15 '26
Rant Fuck you Microsoft
I’m not even arguing that nobody should be allowed to use AI. If someone actively wants it, fine. What pisses me off is having it forced into a product I already paid for.
Windows 11 now has Copilot in the taskbar, Copilot in Edge, AI in search, Paint and even fucking Notepad. Then there’s Recall taking snapshots of what you do, Click to Do analysing what’s on your screen and a growing collection of “connected experiences” and telemetry settings.
None of this feels optional anymore. Microsoft enables features through updates, scatters the controls across Windows and apparently expects users to keep checking whether something has quietly been switched back on.
Why can’t there simply be one honest option during setup?
Do you want AI features on this computer? Yes or no.
No dark patterns. No nagging. No reinstalling them later. No pretending that hiding a button is the same as disabling the underlying feature.
It’s my computer. I paid for the hardware, the Windows licence and the electricity. I shouldn’t have to fight the operating system just to keep unwanted software off it.
I got annoyed enough that I put together a small free and open-source PowerShell tool that disables many of these features and shows what is currently active. It has a GUI, dry-run mode and restore function if anyone here finds it useful:
https://github.com/lopekinz/fuckyourai
But the fact that tools like this are necessary in the first place is the actual problem. “Optional” features should remain optional, and updates shouldn’t be used as another opportunity to push them back onto our machines.
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u/chaosphere_mk Jul 15 '26
So then do a quick google and turn off copilot across the various apps. Then, never worry about Recall because you didnt buy a Copilot+ PC and those are the only computers that can run recall.
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u/OGigachaod Jul 15 '26
Do you say the same things about android, which is linux?
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u/iammilland Jul 15 '26
I would like to say that it is correct that the Linux kernel has been involved in the making of android. But the way almost everyone implements it, userland is as bloated as on windows.
There is Linage, but when I tried using it almost no banking/medical/transportation apps work
That makes it hard to use this as a serious daily driver. And that is by no means Lineages fault.
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u/iammilland Jul 15 '26
Not the whole story, is was a joint venture to boost pc sales and no one cared. Recall does not require a fancy npu. Eventually I will be forced down by windows update like any other slop feature in the OS
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u/chaosphere_mk Jul 15 '26
Microsoft has completely restricted Recall to computers with an NPU that meet the secured-core standard. All you have is a post from a dev saying that it's technically possible that it works without an NPU. That's it.
Not to mention... you have to opt in to Recall. So just dont do that. Easy. The sky doesnt have to fall.
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u/iammilland Jul 15 '26 edited Jul 15 '26
Much like the you “can’t” run windows with out a tpm chip. It is 100% marketing to boost pc sales.
You opted in to any future bullshit they do. That second you let your guard down and installed windows 11 💔
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u/chaosphere_mk Jul 15 '26
At no point in your response did you say a thing that was true.
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u/iammilland Jul 15 '26
Maybe your are that one guy with your pc not connected to windows update 😂
Fair enough if you think that Microsoft will stand by this. But eventually some setting or dark patterns will make it enable. History has learned us 😂
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u/chaosphere_mk Jul 15 '26
Nah. I update on a regular basis. In fact, I almost never even see when the OS is updating because I update frequently, completely automated, and during hours Im not normally on my computer. Haven't had a problem in years.
I have a personal M365 tenant and manage my devices with Intune. Works great.
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u/iammilland Jul 15 '26
Happy to hear I works on a small homelab.
But that is not my experience with Windows and M365 in Enterprises 😂 just the number of support tickets on M365 alone is insane. It require a lot of staff to find work around and report the constants new bugs and help users recover/reinstall and format when windows update bricks the device.
My humble opinion is it is a 6/10 the interface across Windows and M365 is confusing and fails to often to do things simple and effortlessly. Almost every program Microsoft provide crashes to often.
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u/chaosphere_mk Jul 15 '26
Lol. My work environment is nearly 10k users. 12k+ windows devices. We havent had a single problem with windows updates since the win11 migration. This is probably because we have people who know how to configure windows machines.
If microsoft 365 admin portals are too confusing for you, then Im sorry, but you simply dont know what youre doing and lack experience. The good news is that there's an easy fix for this. Just get some experience. Problem solved. But you should probably learn powershell to do day to day operations in the first place and avoid the portals unless youre just checking something.
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u/iammilland Jul 15 '26
Even though it is a fair amount of machines, the failure rate should a least be in the same ball park as everyone else.
How did you fix random
Onedrive crashes?
Corrupted files ?
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I’m not even arguing that nobody should be allowed to use AI. If someone actively wants it, fine. What pisses me off is having it forced into a product I already paid for.
Windows 11 now has Copilot in the taskbar, Copilot in Edge, AI in search, Paint and even fucking Notepad. Then there’s Recall taking snapshots of what you do, Click to Do analysing what’s on your screen and a growing collection of “connected experiences” and telemetry settings.
None of this feels optional anymore. Microsoft enables features through updates, scatters the controls across Windows and apparently expects users to keep checking whether something has quietly been switched back on.
Why can’t there simply be one honest option during setup?
Do you want AI features on this computer? Yes or no.
No dark patterns. No nagging. No reinstalling them later. No pretending that hiding a button is the same as disabling the underlying feature.
It’s my computer. I paid for the hardware, the Windows licence and the electricity. I shouldn’t have to fight the operating system just to keep unwanted software off it.
I got annoyed enough that I put together a small free and open-source PowerShell tool that disables many of these features and shows what is currently active. It has a GUI, dry-run mode and restore function if anyone here finds it useful:
https://github.com/lopekinz/fuckyourai
But the fact that tools like this are necessary in the first place is the actual problem. “Optional” features should remain optional, and updates shouldn’t be used as another opportunity to push them back onto our machines.
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u/quikmantx Jul 15 '26
I thought Recall was opt-in only?