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Something Is VERY Wrong With Microsoft Windows 11
Something Is VERY Wrong With Microsoft Windows 11
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AI is changing the world… and your computer is paying
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the price. Here’s how AI is killing Windows 11.
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If you own a computer that isn’t a Mac, odds are it runs Microsoft Windows - the operating system
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that’s powered most PCs since the early ’90s. Microsoft used to be the undisputed king of
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personal computing. But today, it’s facing more competition than ever - from Apple,
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Chromebooks, and a changing PC market. So it’s constantly trying to keep Windows easy to use,
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easy to update, and accessible for everyday users.
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And despite all the changes,
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Microsoft Office is still one of the most widely used software suites on the planet.
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But they’re taking a big swing - and it might be the thing that dooms it.
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Like every other major tech company, Microsoft is rushing to incorporate AI into its systems,
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to automate basic tasks and guide people as they use the computer. But this isn’t Microsoft’s first
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attempt at smart features. Back in the late 1990s, the company was famously mocked for Clip py - a
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virtual assistant so intrusive and unhelpful it became a global punchline. Clippy didn’t
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last long, but Microsoft kept trying, rolling out less-cartoony Office Assistants over the years.
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Eventually, that evolved into Cortana - a chatbot-style helper bundled with Microsoft
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software up until 2023. Then an earthquake hit - and everyone else hurried to catch up.
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But Microsoft wasn’t about to be the one company left behind.
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The launch of Chat-GPT led Microsoft to quickly develop its own. Copilot was launched in late 2023
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and soon incorporated into just about everything the company operates. That included Windows 11,
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the newest operating system. Old computers could be updated with the new software,
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and Copilot would come with them. Whether you wanted it or not.
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And that’s the real issue.
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Copilot isn’t just an app. Microsoft built it like a new
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layer on top of the entire operating system - and the more they force that layer in,
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the more Windows 11 starts feeling like it’s fighting you instead of helping you.
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Because this wasn’t just a feature update. It was a takeover.
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And once AI becomes the center of the operating system, everything else starts
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getting worse - performance, stability, settings, and even basic usability.
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The complaints about Copilot and AI’s incorporation into Windows came even
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before the software fully rolled out. That’s because Microsoft went
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with the hard sell on their new feature - ending support for Windows 10 in 2025,
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cutting people off from vital security and service features unless they updated
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to the new model. Microsoft claims the new software is designed to make your life easier.
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But if you talk to the customers, that’s not the case at all. In fact, a lot of
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people started asking the same question: why does Windows feel harder to use now?
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The new software was given a big push as Windows 11 debuted, with Microsoft
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Copilot being accessible directly through the taskbar. Keyboards have a dedicated key
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to summon Copilot. Like all the other major AI chatbots like Gemini, Grok, and Chat-GPT,
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it can answer questions, write text, and generate images with a simple prompt. It is free to use,
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but certain higher levels of generative tasks are accessed with an additional paid subscription.
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And as Windows 10’s end-of-support gets closer, that leaves millions of users
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with a brutal choice: upgrade into Windows 11’s AI-first world… or get left behind.
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And the worst part? For a lot of people, it doesn’t feel like a choice at all.
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Windows 11 looks like the Windows you know… just faster,
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smarter, and better. But that promise comes with a trade-off.
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Windows 11 had much higher system requirements than previous models, partly because Microsoft
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designed it for a more always-on modern system - including AI features running in the background,
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whether you use them or not. So it froze out many older devices. This felt like a
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forced upgrade for many people, even if they weren’t ready to retire an older,
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but reliable, computer. This was hardly anything new - most devices today don’t
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simply die but get retired when the device can no longer handle updated websites and apps.
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But this was different. This wasn’t just Microsoft
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upgrading Windows. This was Microsoft upgrading you.
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When Windows 11 debuted, it initially got positive reviews. It was a big step forward
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for a system that had been seen as old hat for a while. But it soon became clear that
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the majority of existing Windows 10 PCs weren’t able to run the new software,
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coming from a previous generation. It’s estimated that 60% of the currently owned devices would
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need to be upgraded - which could be a massive drain on the finances of their loyal customers.
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And that’s when people started realizing this wasn’t a normal
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upgrade cycle. It was a forced migration.
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It’s been close to three years since people started playing with AI chatbots,
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and the opponents are more vocal than ever. The Generative AI movement has been accused
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of being based around plagiarism, damaging the environment with its heavy data use,
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driving up the price of RAM, and making schoolchildren dumber. And the worst part
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for the doubters is…it’s completely unavoidable. All major browsers and
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websites are quickly incorporating it, but no one quite embraced it on the same level as Microsoft.
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Because Microsoft didn’t just add AI to Windows… they built Windows around it.
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Around the same time that Microsoft ended general support for Windows 10,
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they rolled out a whole host of new updates for Windows 11 heavily reliant on Copilot. It was
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an attempt to create the first fully integrated AI-powered laptop. The most significant change was
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a voice mode that allows people to simply say “Hey, Copilot” and begin directing the laptop
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to carry out tasks for them. One of Microsoft’s chief marketing officers compared this innovation
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to introducing the mouse and keyboard. Another new AI feature was Copilot Vision,
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which allowed the AI to analyze and give feedback on anything that was on screen.
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And to many people, it started to seem like Big Brother was watching. But the
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scariest part wasn’t what Copilot could do… it was that you couldn’t make it stop.
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AI-based editing and analysis features have been around for a while, with one of the
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most popular being Grammarly. This writing software takes the classic spell-check and
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adds in features to help you optimize your language, eliminating awkward phrasing and
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incorrect grammar. But this does it in an unobtrusive way. Many Windows
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11 skeptics said that it felt like Copilot was butting in where it’s not wanted - much in the
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same way Clippy would pop up when least needed in the old Office Assistant days.
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But far bigger problems for Microsoft were just around the corner.
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As the new software rolled out, it was criticized for its lack of support for
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third-party content and a reduction in user-friendly features like customization
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and default settings. Some critics said it felt unfinished. Like Microsoft rushed
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the OS out the door - not to make Windows better, but to make Copilot unavoidable.
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However, as time went on, frequent users started to notice small but annoying
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issues with the interface. Moving files proved trickier than expected,
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and settings didn’t seem to stick. Because Windows 11 isn’t just trying to be a tool
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anymore - it’s trying to predict what you want, and getting in the way.
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And that might sound small… but it’s exactly
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the kind of thing that makes people stop trusting the OS.
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And one group was harder to please than any other.
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Office workers and casual users will only notice big problems. Gamers, however, will notice even
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the smallest change in effectiveness. And they quickly noticed something that should
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never happen - their games ran up to ten percent faster on Windows 10 than the newer model. In
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competitive games where even a half-second lag can cost someone a high-stakes match, there’s
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no tolerance for slowness. Soon, gamers were switching back to Windows 10 for as long as they
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could. It’s something that should never happen - a new model running slower than the old model.
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But the real damage wasn’t performance. It was trust.
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As many environmentalists have pointed out, AI has a big cost. It eats a lot of data and energy,
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and that doesn’t just affect data centers and electricity grids. When AI is heavily
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built into a program, it demands more from your computer - more processing power,
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more background activity, and more strain overall.
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And if you’ve ever used an older PC, you already know how easy it is for performance to tank
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under pressure - especially with gaming, where overheating and slowdown are already common.
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So gamers were one of the first groups asking the obvious question:
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do we really need all this AI? And when gamers start downgrading to the older operating system?
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That’s not a minor complaint. That’s a warning sign.
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Gamers are usually the first group to push new hardware, new updates,
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new software. If they don’t want it… who does? And they were about to be proven right - in a big way.
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Because if Windows can’t even keep power users happy… what’s it doing to everybody else?
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Windows 11 adoption was slow to start, with the onerous system requirements deterring many people
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from taking the plunge. It didn’t hit 50% of Microsoft’s market surge until July 2025, as many
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people saw their existing software sunset, and it shot up from there. But with more users came more
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problems, and towards the end of 2025 there were more reported glitches, with people’s settings not
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saving and functions not working as advertised. Many systems also experienced frequent outages,
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which caused major problems for gamers and workers alike. It was clear that an update was needed.
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And then Microsoft pushed an update that made everything worse.
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In January 2026, Microsoft issued a new series of patch notes for the software, aiming at fixing
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some of its biggest headaches. Instead, it came back - and many people found the entire software
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was riddled with critical errors that made it near-unusable. Some people found they couldn’t
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even sign into their device, or that it wouldn’t shut down properly when they were done working.
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Those on Remote Desktop experienced the worst problems, and those using old software like
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Outlook Classic found themselves locked out of the app entirely. E-mails went missing,
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browsers froze, and many users just slammed their laptops shut in frustration.
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Microsoft had to act - fast.
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Two days after the initial updates slowed the system to a crawl, Microsoft issued emergency
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patches for the system. These two out-of-band updates were designed to fix the most critical
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issues, which kept the systems from shutting down and kept people from signing in remotely.
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But the problems didn’t stop there.
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One of the most basic Windows tools - Task Manager - refused to close. It just stayed open,
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chewing up resources… until the entire PC froze.
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That’s not a bad update. That’s a computer you can’t rely on.
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One of the biggest concerns people had about the new system was that they weren’t sure that
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their data was even secure. And it all came back to the fine print. In December 2025,
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people noticed that the text relating to the new AI network indicated that much like any other AI,
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it could “hallucinate” - providing false information collated from the internet,
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without being able to differentiate.
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But buried deeper was a mention that the AI might introduce “Novel security risks”, which could
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refer to spyware or viruses. While there are no reports of this actually happening, the fact that
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Microsoft felt it necessary to cover themselves for this possibility has many people worried.
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And when your operating system itself is admitting
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“new risks”… people stop seeing it as help. They start seeing it as a threat.
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After months of ongoing problems, with key features being repeatedly down,
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Microsoft admitted that the software they had brute-forced
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people into wasn’t working as intended. The fixes improved some of the issues,
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but crashes and malfunctions persisted, and many people assumed the AI was to blame. After all,
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if the software now has a mind of its own, can it actually be trusted to manage your
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software? Is this the moment that AI starts to wreak havoc on our computer systems?
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In a word, probably not - but that doesn’t mean we’re out of the woods.
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Despite what the biggest proponents of AI say, we’re not on the verge of a benevolent
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sentient AI managing our lives for us. And despite what the biggest detractors say,
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we’re probably not close to Skynet launching the nukes. Even the most powerful AI software these
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days, like Chat-GPT or Gemini, are still just large language models, collating information
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and putting words together via predictive algorithms. They can be highly convincing,
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but they’re still easy to confuse when too much information is introduced.
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And that’s exactly what might have happened here.
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This is the most deeply integrated AI has ever been in a mainstream computer platform.
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Even Google’s Gemini in Chrome still feels mostly optional - something you use when you go looking
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for it. But Microsoft Copilot is built into every corner of Windows 11, meaning it’s always there…
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and it’s always running. And that constant background presence can slow things down,
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add bugs, and make the whole experience more complicated than it needs to be. The result is
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a messier, more frustrating system - and it’s driving people straight to the competition.
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As of January 2026, users were working to figure out the feature people wanted
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most from their new AI-powered operating system - the ability to turn off the AI.
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But the software didn’t make it easy, and the internet was hard at work figuring out
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the individual settings that needed to be deactivated. Because nobody asked for a
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smarter Windows. They just wanted Windows 10 - and a computer that would let them work.
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And that’s where Microsoft has a real problem. Not just with
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Windows 11 - but with Windows as a brand. Consumers hold off on upgrading. Businesses
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delay deployments. IT departments push back. Gamers downgrade. And suddenly the
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Windows ecosystem that Microsoft built its empire on starts looking less like
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a foundation… and more like a liability. Because once people stop trusting Windows,
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Microsoft doesn’t just lose an OS - it loses the center of its entire ecosystem.
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This isn’t the only area where Microsoft is falling behind the competition - check out
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“The REAL Reason XBOX is Failing” for the behind-the-scenes story
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of the company’s fall from gaming grace, or watch this video instead.
