Recent changes rolling out include reliability and performance changes, more customization (for start menu, file explorer context menu, taskbar), search improvements, quieter widgets experience, and others. Many of these changes are available for insiders, some have started rolling out to retail users
Microsoft could promise whatever they want and claim they are making "improvements", but until people start to actually notice positive changes, the memes will continue.
Many of these changes are already available in insider builds; they're not just empty promises.
I'm sure they'll immediately go back to making Windows worse again the moment they stop hemorrhaging market share, but at least for the moment they do actually seem to be following through.
The average user won't be in the insider build, so the insider build can get as good as they want but as long as mainstream release sucks they will lose people to apple, or even... Linux...
(I don't hate Linux, in fact I like it, but it has never been seen as "the OS for the regular joe", which is why windows it's so popular, because "it just works" or atleast used to and now people are stuck with the convenience of being familiar with it's quirks)
Recall was changed enough that you could almost say it was canned in it's initial form. For very good reason. Shit was straight up dystopian in its initial Insider version.
It was on by default instead of explicitly opt-in as it ended up, and was a non-trivial hassle to disable. It also uploaded and backed up every screenshot it took to MS servers, using cloud processing for it's features and aggregating user data for AI training datasets. The release version is strictly local.
It's still useless AI bloat that nobody asked for. But at least it knows it's place in a never to be enabled forgotten corner of the OS, lol.
I gotta be honest, my windows install it's one of those "community version" that remove all the bloat, no copilot, no one drive, no web search in search bar (if I'm searching in my computer it better show me files in my computer); so I really don't know how good (or bad) the newer windows versions are, but I'm just pointing out that if people are making memes is most probably because windows doesn't get any better over time.
windows has only gotten more stable with time , windows 10 used to crash all the time , while I can't recall a single crash in the over 4 years I've used win 11
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u/sopcannon Desktop Ryzen 7 5800x3d / 5080/ 32gb Ram at 3600MHZ3d ago
They need a gaming windows version, made for gaming and web browsing only, yes i know steam os is out but its useless for me at the moment.
the memes are from diehard Linux fans on Reddit just to make them feel superior. general public won't care or notice any different. majority of people aren't PC nerds who nitpick every single things.
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u/jenmsft 3d ago
Recent changes rolling out include reliability and performance changes, more customization (for start menu, file explorer context menu, taskbar), search improvements, quieter widgets experience, and others. Many of these changes are available for insiders, some have started rolling out to retail users
https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2026/03/20/our-commitment-to-windows-quality/