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  • Two more days to go.

    Work today was uneventful and after all that I went for my usual 11.6km walk which funny enough I did quicker than 1 hour and 50 minutes. I received a text message from my doctor regarding a 3 monthly blood test to keep track of how things are progressing to ensure that there isn’t any spike in blood sugar numbers. I’m unsure how much of a regular thing it’ll be but it is good to keep track of ones health. As my doctor noted, there are a whole heap of downstream problems that come from high blood sugar so it is best to get it under control. For my numbers my hba1c went from 89 to 42 and then to 37 with my personal goal being that I’d like to get it down to the low end of the thirties or even the high twenties which will get me in a health normal range with enough head room.

    I’m getting myself back in a routine, taking each day one at a time – getting back to having a walk every night and although it has taken a bit of effort to be motivated to get out of the house after working all day I have to admit that afterwards I feel a whole lot better. I’m going to get really focused on getting back on track and then not next week but the week after I’ll go in for my blood test – I don’t see any major change because I’m feeling pretty good at the moment.

    I saw a video of Paul Thurrott regarding the whole debate online in response to a Microsoft executive talking about making Windows an agentic OS.

    I have to disagree with Paul although I do agree there are people who will fight tooth and nail against any progress there are legitimate issues being raised with many at the end of the tether because they’ve been saying the same thing for years and just being ignored by Microsoft. There is a push back to Microsoft AI fixation because ever since Windows 8, Microsoft has clearly decided that the concerns of the user base play second fiddle to what ever happened to the the latest trend of the moment. Touch screens for example being the archetype of faux futurism where Microsoft hoped that a touch first user interface would spur on greater sales yet here we are years later and the overwhelming majority of computers don’t have a touch screen and end users went through a whole lot of disruptive pain for nothing worthwhile. Then the two releases per year under Windows 10 with ‘Windows as a service’ (a great idea in theory assuming you’re not dealing with a spaghetti code mess but instead everything is clean and modular) where a small prayer was required before installing an update in a hope that the software gods will bless oneself with a stable platform and nothing broken. When people look at Windows 7 as a ‘golden age’ it wasn’t that people are saying Windows 7 was perfect but it did get the basics done well and just got out of your way to allow you to use your computer with minimal disruption.

    The issue isn’t about new features, the issue is about the misplaced priorities with Windows 11 for example being released in October 2021 and here we are 4 years later, very little progress on the UI in consistencies (see inconsistencies regarding dark mode as one example), the Windows Settings introduced in Windows 10 release 10 years ago and they still haven’t gotten rid of the Control Panel or clearly lay out any sort of road map regarding dealing with legacy components of Windows. That doesn’t even touch on things such as the MAX_PATH limitation where you can enable long path names but Windows Explorer (for example) doesn’t support path names longer than 256 characters. If these issues were addressed (and more) or being addressed in a timely manner than most users would view this whole AI thing as something they would disable or just ignore (assuming it doesn’t keep pestering them) but when power users and developers see the basics not being done well mean while all the focus is on features very few people give a flying continental about then it shouldn’t be surprising that people online are voicing their concerns via the modern day equivalent of writing a letter to the editor.

    Daily writing prompt
    What are your two favorite things to wear?
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    My two favourite items of clothing are zip up hoodies and hoodies in general along with Dickies trousers with the double patch on the knee. I prefer to have my clothing baggy and comfortable – even when I was slimmer I still preferred baggy clothes because I found fitting clothing too restrictive and rather uncomfortable. Oh, and heavy cotton shirts I also like – not a fan of cotton shirts that are thin, feels like I’m going to rip the shirt if I look at it the wrong way. Oh, while we’re at it, I do like skate shoes – preferably black or a dark colour.

  • Going on three days.

    Keeping on track with the third day going for a walk – I decided to spice it up a bit and change where I walked tonight. It is good to make changes so then it isn’t the same old same old. Taking each day at a time and set goals that are achievable rather than having massive aspirations, fail to achieve them and then feel bad about not achieving those goals that weren’t really all that attainable. It is about finding a middle ground, moderation if you will, rather than swinging from one extreme to another – from binge to austerity then binge again, attempting to undo a lifetime of bad habits and conditioning but reprogramming oneself is easier said that done.

    Samsung has released the November 2025 update for their S25 Ultra – the size is around 569.89MB and it took only a couple of minutes or so to download then install. After rebooting I checked for the October 2025 Google Play Services update but nothing came through – stuck on September 2025 but then again an update may come in the next few days so I guess I’ll need to wait and see what happens. The kernel has been updated where it has the same linux 6.6.77 kernel which indicates to me that there weren’t major updates other than security fixes. One UI 8.5 is being worked on at the moment with reports that it’ll be based on Android 16 QPR2 with the focus by Samsung to bring about a release schedule that’ll line up with the Android QPR (Quarterly Platform Release) schedule.

    In a follow up to the post I made yesterday about the fall out regarding the whole ‘agentic OS’ fiasco, Microsoft responds in the only way out of touch silicon valley types can respond – telling end users that they’re ignorant rubes who don’t understand how wonderful their vision for the future is. At this point they sound like religious zealots convincing you that they have the truth and the reason you don’t accept it isn’t because what they’re telling you as a load of crap but rather because some super natural force is stopping your from accepting it.

    All I can say is this, Apple must be pretty happy right about now knowing they’ve side stepped the whole unfolding situation in the AI world (or more specifically the LLM segment of the AI market) but then again Apple put out a white paper note too long ago regarding the limitations with the LLM approach. I can’t help but get the feeling that when Apple makes a entrance in the AI world it’ll be off the back off a new approach – meanwhile they can pay Google for their Gemini model, improve Siri and take their time so then at least using Gemini will mean they won’t lag behind the competition.

  • It felt good getting back into a routine.

    I finished work then headed off for a 11.6km power walk which I did in around 1 hour and 50 minutes then I arrived home, had a big glass of cool water then jumped into the shower. I love this time of the year where it isn’t too hot and you can go for a walk with tracksuit pants and a t-shirt with the temperature just at that right level of warmth where it is warm enough to wear a t-shirt but not too warm to the point you end up sweating profusely. I guess I’m lucky in that I go for my walk after 10pm when the day starts cooling down at around 8pm

    I was reading through the fall out from the ‘announcing Windows is becoming an agentic OS’ that was posted on X/Twitter only for the head of Windows to hear people, to put it politely, voicing their concerns about the future direction of Windows. It appears that Microsoft have learned nothing from the Windows Vista and Windows 8 debacle – if you lose the tech enthusiasts, who also are product boosters (see NPS and the role that customers who are ‘promoters’ play in promoting your brand), then you lose your ability to win over the non-tech savvy audience who make up the majority of consumers out there. The tech enthusiasts tend to be the ‘friend whose good with computers’ and what they have to say carries weight – you lose them then you lose their willingness to advocate on behalf of your company to their friends and family.

    Well, after receiving constructive criticism he then took onboard the feedback and made the appropriate changes…ah ha, I almost got you, nope, they didn’t change direction but instead paid lip service that Microsoft was listening and then double down on the idea that as end users we’re idiots and we need masterful geniuses such as the head of Windows to take it upon himself to make those critical decisions and lead us to the promise land of features we didn’t know we needed. I’d love to meet the people he apparently talks to who are demanding this agentic OS vision he has because survey after survey show that consumers don’t care about AI (only 7% of phone users consider it to be a factor when purchasing a phone) so who is demanding what they’re pushing? an example of shoving something down a customer’s throat relentlessly and then eventually they’ll give in and embrace it?

    I can see that they’re working on improving the user interface consistency, making the system more reliable regarding drivers and trying to move things into the user space where possible but ultimately they’ll have to start to deliver on this promises then maybe then their most loyal fans will star to cut them some slack. When neglected the core competencies of your operating system then it shouldn’t be surprising that there are a sizeable number of enthusiasts who see this fixation regarding AI and agentic operating system as a distraction from what Microsoft should be focusing on – making sure they get the basics done well before branching out into other areas.

  • And now for something completely different.

    I thought I may as well add do another post before I head off to bed. Today was a good day in terms of sticking to my diet – one thing I made sure of this week was making sure that I had a good variety of food at home which avoids being tempted to sneak off down the road mid week or getting groceries delivered which ends up leading to buying stuff I probably don’t need. I guess it is one of those things where you’re on a uphill battle fighting against a life time of bad habits but that being said there is the balance of ensuring that life isn’t some sort of death march where every day is miserable and there is nothing worth looking forward to.

    Things are going well with using Chrome and Google Workspace so I don’t think I’ll ever change to Microsoft 365. It’ll be interesting to see what comes of the whole bringing Android to the laptop – I have a feeling that what we’ll see is Android with desktop mode simply being the mode it automatically boots to, the same mode that you see with Samsung phones and DeX where you can use it like a desktop computer. What will also be interesting is whether we’ll see Android desktop box like how there were Chrome box because I am reminded of the Qualcomm X2 launch and some of the mini pc designs that were being shown at their demonstration booth. Could we see a Qualcomm X2 based desktop running Android? I imagine we could but it’ll be interesting to see whether Google opens up Chrome for Android to support extensions given that the business I work for relies on extensions as part of the work flow such as using 1Password to store passwords (or in my case, if I were to have a desktop I’d want to be able to utilise uBlock Origin Lite).

    On the topic of uBlock Origin Lite, there has been a release of 2025.1116.1841 and funny enough it appeared on the Apple App Store before anywhere else then followed by Edge but we’re still waiting on it to appear in the Chrome store. On the topic of Apple, I’ve updated mum’s phone to 18.7.2 but what I’ve decided to do is wait until 26.2 is released before updating because although I’ve heard a good amount of praise regarding the stability of 26.1 I’d sooner wait until 26.2 then make the switch after seeing what the final ends up turning out like (so far Zollotech on YouTube has given Apple releases a good amount of coverage – he goes into the minutia and picks up things that most reviewers will gloss over although it would be nice if he spent some time testing Safari since it is a heavily used bundled application).

    I’ve been following Webkit development and how things are going when it comes to Web Platform Tests (WPT) and based on the latest Safari Technology Preview it appears that there is a sizeable amount of progress (from what I understand there is work on creating a WPT but for extensions which should mean that getting Safari into compliance with the MV3 should be made a whole lot easier – being able to pick up compliance/compatibility bugs while building up the functionality) but it’ll be interesting to see how quickly they’ll make it available in their stable release given that if you do a comparison between stable releases, Safari still lags behind Chrome in terms of getting those features shipped to end users.

    It’ll be interesting to see what happens with the Apple M5 product refresh – rumours about it being in March next year or maybe later on but I don’t see it being launched any time soon given how close it is to Christmas (generally if they are going to do a product launch for Christmas it would already be made available). It’ll be interesting to see whether they include the new N1 chip as part of it because it has many benefits but then again I’m in no hurry – at this rate I could easily wait until maybe the iPhone 18 where it is rumoured that they’ll be move their whole product range over to their inhouse mobile chip – a C2X along with a N2 networking chip.

    Daily writing prompt
    What are your family’s top 3 favorite meals?
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    1. Roast lamb with roast vegetables – lots of gravy then followed by a hearty desert such as a stick date pudding with custard or ice dream.
    2. Buttered chicken, rogan josh or tikka masala with garlic naan or roti along with basmati rice.
    3. Doner kebab – either lamb or chicken, with lots of salad, spicy sauce and for desert nothing beats baklava.

  • Another weekend gone too quickly.

    Back to work tomorrow – the weekend always ends up finishing too quickly but on a good side I did turn it into a productive time off. On Monday I walked down to the local bakery for some eggs bene with salmon and spinach for brunch, picked up a few sweet treats from the display cabinet then walked back home. Watched a few YouTube videos then had dinner with mum followed by some weekly grocery shopping. On Tuesday (today) I went for another walk, came back home, completed weeding of the garden – what I’m going to do on my two weeks off over Christmas is to pull up the garden and deal with the weed problem and then put down some fresh weed mats and rocks which will tidy it up. I also need to deal with the weeds on the footpath and I may even look at getting some greenery for the backyard because at the moment it is just a concrete slab, a bike shed and a clothes line so it would be nice to turn it into a place where I want to hang out during the summer rather than sitting inside all day using my laptop when I could be using my laptop outside in the fresh air.

    Google has released an update of Chrome a day earlier than usual so I checked out the release information on their blog website (link) and now it makes sense, two high severity security holes and one of them being exploited in the wild at the moment so if you haven’t updated yet then I’d check under settings then about and get that update installed. It appears that the lack of an update for Android is an indication that only the desktop version is impacted.

    Microsoft has released some insider builds for both the release preview channel (link) and the developer and beta channel (link). It’ll be interesting whether it’ll be released in January 2026 given that according to the November patch Tuesday there is the following note:

    Due to reduced operations during the Western holidays in December and New Year’s Day, Microsoft will not release a non-security preview update in December 2025. The monthly security update will still be available as scheduled. Regular monthly servicing, including both security updates and non-security preview updates, will resume in January 2026.

    So we may not see those enhancements for another month with December being a purely security and bug fix release which makes sense because I could imagine many people at Microsoft going away on holidays, spending time with family etc. etc. Btw, what it also looks like regarding the ‘Administration Protection’, Microsoft is pausing the roll out in the beta and developer channels which makes sense given that it is a pretty big change and it is almost guaranteed there will be bugs and software compatibility issues that either need to be worked around, fixed or documented so that the third party can address the compatibility issue before doing any sort of widespread rollout.

    On a side note, I find it funny how there are people on Twitter who are unhappy with the head of Windows talking about how Microsoft are turning Windows into an agentic operating system – replies being made by them about how they never asked for this AI nonsense, that Microsoft should just make a decent operating system etc. etc. THe reason I find it funny is that these people complaining are the same people who tune into tech influencers who were hyping AI up to the ceiling and beyond. These people then constantly regurgitating tech influencer rectum plucks as wisdom worthy of being shared as if they had come down from the heavens – the great tech philosopher has been generous enough to bestow upon his lowly audience some great wisdom.

    It reminds me of all the wailing and gnashing of teeth from the tech influencers whining about Apple ‘falling behind’ even though all the surveys point to the fact that only 7% of iPhone purchasers cared about AI features. It really goes to show the disconnect from reality that the tech influencers represent – they’re little more than people who use the parasocial relationship their viewers have with them to push the latest hype from silicon valley to their audience. I really do hope that there is a day of reckoning for these tech influencers in much the same way I would like to see a day of reckoning for the manosphere dude bros who are trying to back peddle at the moment claiming that they weren’t really that ‘hardcore MAGA’ even though there are thousands of hours of clips being just that.

    The whole reason why these tech influencers gained an audience in the first place was the sense that the person was being genuine – they weren’t bought by a particular company and thus could be as brutally honest as they wanted because it was from personal experience. Something insides me wishes that the whole influencer crashes and burns but something tells me that as long as people have short memories I don’t think people will learn – keeping in mind the US voted in GWB twice, Trump twice and Regan twice, and gave Republicans a majority in both houses 2 years after their party crashed the global economy and got the US stuck in two wars, and that hasn’t resulted in Americans learning anything.

  • A productive day today.

    I woke up this morning, had a coffee then jumped into the shower, got dressed then walked down to the local cafe for an eggs bene with smoked salmon and spinach along with a bowl of mocaccino. After the meal I then grabbed a couple of items from the display cabinet of slices then headed back home. Something I must do a lot more often on my day off is going from a nice walk around the block during the day – the feeling of the sun and the fresh air certainly wakes one up.

    Regarding the political take I had either yesteryday or the day before regarding moving further to the left. For me I started off being a social libertarian but economically centre left – the basic idea that negative externalities of capitalism could be dealt with government policy that focused on protecting workers, the environment, ensuring that the products being provide meet safety regulations, a progressive tax system to ensure that those at the top end of town pay a larger portion of their income to fund universal public services that everyone can access. Basically I was a bog standard social democrat but what I have found is that as I’ve read more history I realise that we’ve been going through this cycle of trying to reign in the excesses of capitalism only to find that is undone which is then followed by an economic crisis which then necessitates the state to intervene, rescue the economy then reinstate new regulations (with those regulations being limited in scope due to political capture by the capitalist class).

    The problem is that the we cannot keep going through these cycles resulting in the capitalist class having more power after the very economic crisis they caused resulting in a consolidation of power. As a a study reminded me not too long ago, the average person has little or no influence over policy when compared to the donors who bankroll campaigns and lobby for special treatment. If we define fascism being the marriage of state power with capitalism – the capitalist class seizes control of the state then use the state’s monopoly on violence to protect its class interest, what we see a slow moving fascist transformation of the state. Then add on top of a system that is predicated on infinite growth on a finite planet thus making dealing with climate change an impossibility without system change, an economy productive enough to meet all of humanities needs but relies on the illusion of scarcity to ensure profit maximisation and that doesn’t touch on the larger issue of the fact that we have solutions to deal with climate change but because we fixate over profits the end result is that these solutions never get built because they’re either unprofitable or not profitable enough.

    What is the solution? we need to push beyond capitalism. As Michael Moore, the American documentarian, has noted in the past regarding how as humans we can land people on the moon, find cures to diseases, create marvels of technology but some how we cannot come up with a better solution than capitalism? what is that alternative? socialism but the million dollar question is what kind of socialism – if you define socialism as in ‘workers owning and controlling the means of production’ then what is governance structure? cooperatives? worker councils based around a particular industrial sector? should the market be the mediator when it comes to the delivery of goods and services or what other model could be used in lieu of a market based model? should there be currency? labour vouchers? public housing, private housing or a combination?

    What does amaze me are the number of liberals who keep chortling about how ‘socialism has never worked’ which demonstrates the fact that capitalism didn’t get it right the first time and even today it continuously needs the bailed out. If capitalism was this fabulously perfect system then it wouldn’t need to be continuously baile dout, it wouldn’t need to use clandestine operations to undermine countries that wish to nationalise their natural resources so that the benefits of those resources are used to benefit their people (see Iran and numerous South American countries just recently). I have to wonder whether liberals are so wedded to the ideology that they’re blind to alternatives to whether they have a vested interested in the status quo.

  • Bring on the weekend.

    Another uneventful day at work that has come and gone – I’m happy that it is all over with and I finished it off with a cheese and onion sandwich along with an egg salad sandwich. I jumped into bed, completed NYT Connections and Wordle then watched a few YouTube videos about various political topics. It is funny how the conventional wisdom is the idea that as you get older you become more conservative but I find myself moving further to the left as I have gotten older. I might write a blog post regarding the background to that gradual shift to the left – I’ll put that in the ‘to be completed at a later date’ and that’ll most likely be at a time like 3am where like a cat I’ll get a sudden surface of energy.

    Daily writing prompt
    What is your favorite place to go in your city?
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    My favourite place is Cuba Street in Wellington – lots of interesting stores including a great record store with niche music cds that are difficult to find, good quality out of print cds etc. along with trendy restaurants, clothing stores etc. that have a cosmopolitan vibe to the city. The best way to describe it would be this – if New Zealand had legal weed then Cuba Street would be the place you’d pop into the local cafe for a coffee and a few edibles.

  • I think Saturday will be night off.

    The combination of drunk people stumbling home from the local pub and people letting of fireworks I decided to have a quiet night in and then go for a walk Sunday night when things are a little bit quieter. On a good side I finally found that annoying soft drink can that was being blowing around on the road last night that was driving me mad – found that along with another tin and put them into my recycling bin. It is amazing how much noise an empty soft drink can can make.

    Second day and I’ve been sticking to my meal plan – I had a bottle of soaked chia seeds topped with unsweetened yoghurt (one at breakfast then one at morning tea), some rice and salmon meal that I can heat up in the microwave and then for a snack I had a coffee and an iced coffee (500ml of low fat milk with extra protein along with 80ml of coffee concentrate (no sugar added)). The combination of fibre and protein allows me to keep fuller for longer along with keeping the amount of added sugar to a minimum which avoids blood sugar spikes and feeling hungry shortly after eating something.

    Intel has updated their ISA documentation (link) and it is kind of strange that Nova Lake includes support for AVX and APX but for some strange reason Flexible Return and Event Delivery (FRED) is in Panther Lake (and two Xeon models) but not in Nova Lake which seems kind of strange given that I would have expected Nova Lake to build upon the Panther Lake architecture and thus inherit the feature. Unless of course I’m reading it wrong and the architecture listed on the left hand side is the first architecture that will receive it and all subsequent architectures automatically get it since it is already baked in (I assume that is the case given that the title of the table is ‘Recent Instruction Set Extensions / Features Introduction in Intel® 64 and IA-32’ which indicates when it was first introduced). It’ll be interesting to see what the performance will be like when the first crop of Panther Lake laptops are released but the Nova Lake at least for me will be the more interesting because we’ll get to see whether the work done on AVX and APX translates to a sizeable improvement in performance.

    Something I do miss is how in the past Microsoft used to have blog posts going into the technical details regarding their kernel, the changes they made and how that impacted the end user. For example, with Windows 7 there was a change in terms of the GDI system which made it more fine grained and scalable which enabled it to be more responsive along with the partial hardware acceleration they implemented as well (as part of WDDM 1.1) which improved the GUI responsiveness when compared to Windows Vista. There was also a change a change in the kernel dispatch that improved its scalability to 256 cores (keeping in mind that that time the idea of 256 cores in a single image was huge). I wish there were more articles regarding the changes being made under the hood – although it may not be popular with the general public it does allow tech enthusiasts such as myself have a greater appreciation regarding what Microsoft is doing below the surface – optimisations, adding support for architectural changes etc.

  • Second day getting back on track.

    Second day getting back on track – went for a walk tonight, set a goal of completing it in under 2 hours and I arrived back home in 1 hour and 50 minutes. I like to set a goal for myself so then I keep up a good pace and when I get home I feel as though I’ve accomplished something rather than simply going through the motion of exercising. My legs are a little bit sore but I’m surprised that I haven’t lost gone backwards in terms of fitness and stamina but then again I guess it is something that declines gradually rather than just dropping off the edge of a cliff. I think what I’ll do in future is rather than having a couple of days off in a row what I’ll do instead is still go for a walk on my day off but maybe a shorter one so then I still get out of the house and exercise while still be able to have a day where I can unwind and relax.

    Checking for updates and it there has been a sudden surge of updates for both Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome – unsure as to the reason why – regressions? an unpatched vulnerability currently being exploited? Whatever the case maybe it is good to see updates as being pushed out. As I remember saying years ago on a Usenet, software is written by humans and humans are fallible so bugs are bound to happen but the big question is how well do these organisations handle dealing with a bug when they find it and do they have procedures in place to ensure that once found that a patch is tested to ensure it fixes the bug, ensures that the fix doesn’t result in any regressions and then making it available to the public in a timely manner.

    The silly season has already started so I may as well start planning – get the presents before I’m having to deal with the rush. I’m looking at putting together a hamper for mum and a hamper for my sister and her partner then some presents for my two nieces who live in New Zealand. As for the day, I’ll probably bring desert, some apple cider and a few other goodies – it’s the one day of the year when calorie counting is thrown out the window in favour of enjoying family and lots of yummy food.

  • Back into the swing of things.

    I finally got motivated to get back into going for a walk – first day back after a week of not exercising and I was expecting the worst but actually I came back, completed the 11.6km in under 2 hours and I don’t feel sore or stiff which is a good sign. I was expecting that maybe things may have changed around the area – houses finally getting built on the few empty plots of land that have been empty for quite some time but it appears not to be the case. It’s always good to keep an eye on what is happening in the neighbourhood – hopefully once we get through this year that 2026 will be a better year but something tells me that until Trump and the Republicans are gone then the global economy is going to be experience more instability as so long as a single person can suddenly wake up and randomly throw around tariffs like they’re confetti.

    I find it funny how tech dude bro influencers online are surprised, after hyping AI to the ceiling and beyond, that the average person just wants an operating system that is stable, reliable and gets out of the way when they want to use their computer (link). I always found it funny how these tech dude bro influencers convinced themselves and the echo chamber they occupy that Apple ‘being behind’ in AI is a major issue, meanwhile in the real world all the surveys showed that end users buying phones care about AI as much as they do about thinness which is around 7%. Long story short, maybe some of these influencers should actually hang out with normal people rather than convincing themselves that their human centipede of regurgitated slop is representative of what the priorities are when it comes to where most people sit.

    Personally, I see many features in Windows that I don’t use it – it’s like many things that come bundled with WIndows, I’m sure there is someone somewhere saying that a feature I don’t need is their must have feature so in the grand scheme of things it is not a big deal. On a side note, something tells me that if Microsoft weren’t ramming AI into everything I don’t see them suddenly spending more resources fixing up the inconsistent nature of their user interface. To say that Microsoft would use the resources to fix people’s pet peeves reminds me of an episode of ‘Yes Prime Minister’ regarding a question posed to school children that if nuclear weapons were gotten rid of then how much money would be saved? as Sir Humphrey Appleby points out – there would be no money saved, it would be spend on conventional weapons instead.

    Personally, having lived through the years of Windows 10, I would sooner the the current process of taking a more conservative approach to development rather than the breakneck speed where Windows 10 it was 6 monthly big updates with people guessing what has been broken this time around. Yeah, it was not enjoyable so in the case of my experience with Windows 11 so far I haven’t experienced any major issues and the Windows 11 on ARM has been pretty robust – it’ll be interesting to see whether 26H1 makes its way to the current ARM Surface laptops given that I could imagine there being under the hood improvements that could also benefit the current Qualcomm X Elite product line up but then again they may play it say and would sooner use the extra time to ensure what is shipped is rock solid for their existing customers.