Opinion, if I were to take microsoft seriously the following would need to be done

Hi.
This is a responce to this article from techradar.
https://www.techradar.com/computing/windows/where-has-windows-11-gone-wrong-windows-10-users-are-stalling-or-defecting-so-microsoft-needs-to-fix-this-one-glaring-issue#viafoura-comments

I couldn’t comment directly so I will be posting this on here and pinging back.
Speaking of this whenever I do a ping back of any post from here or in my personal wordpress the system automatically pings it back with propper html and web markup without me doing anything at all which is fantastic.

So without further a do, these are the improvements microsoft need to make before users like me take them seriously.

We will run this stuff from the top down.
1. ai.
Right now with the way its done, with the potential for security concerns on its enablement and because of the reputation of microsoft and all the bugs and unstable systems its more a hinderance to the standard user base.
Now granted as I have said in many platforms ai will have its day and its not going anywhere.
Eventually the machines will rise and we will be assimilated into the collective and yes I look forward to becoming borg!
However not at the lost of my identity and files, accounts, and just about everything in the process.
Assuming control over everything without asking us users first is trouble.
Its the same with things us users do not want.
I’d imagine that entire disk encryption for a business is nice but for us at home, control fine, decrypt ane encrypt at will, fine.
But have it on startup and for everything?
Ok, data I understand, but what if the drive fails?
I have had it where a business machine a familly member had had an encrypted drive but he was unaware of it.
The control board shorted out and the data was lost.
At great expence he was able to manually get it recovered.
Backups were something he didn’t have but the fact is if it fails you, the user need to get the decoding key from another machine on a microsoft server.
As a blind user its going to be more trouble.
Really this is beyond funny.
A feature the user didn’t want.
It can be turned off for now but still.
Same is ms accounts, yes I understand why you may want them and if you like my dad have many devices they do work but still I still think there should be local primary accounts and everything else is secondary.
There is far much to much automation and handholding and we should have a bit more control.
Then there is the fact things like the hide icons or show all icons in systrey is not readilly accessible as a settings and the fact the easy background components panel has been got rid of is a puzzlement to be honest.
Then there is all this shell loading and all the basic issues.
The next thing is security.
For me a home office hybrid business user, My security is simple.
First and foremost is email security with scams and spam on the rise.
Malware and other security on programs I get in case, though there is a load of extras.
Getting hacked into obviously.
Checking what signatures are not as much as I should necesarily.
I don’t need something telling me what I can and can’t have, if I load whatever that next app is legal or otherwise thats my choice.
To much automatic doings are going on.
In windows 10 this sort of works.
But now I am unsure.
Next are bugs.
Look bugs keep me as a beta tester employed.
The issue is that microsoft seems to have massive ones that should have been fixed before anything went golden.
I won’t quote any because multiple bugs and disasters are all over the place but the reputation is there.
Next the potential of mangling things after an update or anything is so high I spend more time concerning myself on if I will need to reinstall from scratch than on the new features.
I spend more time turning off things I don’t need then concentrating on things that are new.
Back in the windows 9x days and even on xp, 7 and may I even say it 10 that wasn’t always the case though it was a back and forth game at least we did move.
Now I concentrate on what is going to fail rather than what I will get out of this.
And because of this whenever a new feature comes out, my first push is to turn it off because of the reputation and baggage carried by microsoft and its history of the last 5+ years of problematic systems and ideas.

They have their insiders and such however maybe they should have more users and more testers and more users throwing the ideas about.
I will not go to linux or anything but every time I think of updating something else happens.
This weekend, I have been tempted with a system upgrade in my pricerange.
I haven’t because frankly I just have no motivation.
For myself and many small business users round, we want the following.
1. the system should startup and be able to start without any issue, either security, online or otherwise.
After that, the shell needs to work continuously to a point anyway.
Basic stuff should at least function.
Then, detection of the bad guys which is an up and down battle I understand that.
Then security of info obviously.
After that if the system just runs without any real issues is also important.
I guess if I was going to use drive encryption, I’d encrypt my documents and a few other things but not programs or system files.
I’d also want a choice to.
I can also safely say that its actually been a while since microsoft actually made something that I as a user really wanted.
Today, this was yet again proven to me with the news of another bug effecting the hiding of the password icons on the lock screen on windows.
Its not gone but the fact its just gone unless you hover is just another reason why users like myself are not buying the new windows 11 stepup.
The latest 25x updates have more issues and so on and so on.
Windows 10 continues to be stable and thats a major point.
As a home office user I actually suspecct that my requirements will decrease rather than the other way round.
While at university I needed office, brouser, emailers and chat clients.
This has not really changed as I moved into a home office situation.
The office stuff has dropped off a load though I still use it on a monthly to 2 weekly run and mainly to view not edit or create.
I have multiple brousers and a mailer and a few chat modules but bareley chat these days.
I game, listen to videos, music and other drama and movie audio.
I read via the web or other text on other platforms mostly text in notepad or websites I use.
As I get older things will probably shift more and more.
Office will probably stay as will the emailer and web brousing programs.
However with the death of a video converter module pack and another recording module to replace it thats changed already.
Down the track, I can see a day when chat and external communications may go.
At some point office could also be on the chopping block.
I have 3 companies officially sending me documents.
Dolphin, my vintage car club and 1 other news organisation.
I rarely power excell or other program.
Chromium stuff is for tests and when mozilla doesn’t work.
Even when I do game its a load less than it used to be.
I have a lot of sounds but am unsure where that end cycle lies.
I have not given up sounds or recording with effects but once I do, there are at least 50gb of things I can’t get back and a bunch more game related extracts I can’t easilly get back now.
I still do resilio mainly chip and old synth stuff but depending on how my life tracks could be next on the chopping block.
After that who knows.
Thankfully I have not had as much dramas as some in my family but when I have had pain attacks with eyes etc they are violent and I have no idea where to go.
Fortunately I appear to be allowed to continue cruising along which is good enough for now.
With all that being said and such, and to put this back on track, I actually think I will be using less of windows than more or at least will be holding on to what I need.
The days of me fiddling round and such for advancement ai included are truely behind me.
If it appears and I find it usefull then fine but I suspecct if not I won’t really push for it.