2025 was a rough year for Microsoft, at least when it comes to public perception. The tech giant was accused of data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/microsoft-has-made-it-impossible-to-be-a-fan” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/microsoft-has-made-it-impossible-to-be-a-fan”>pushing the “enshittification of Xbox, Surface, and even Windows itself” on purpose. data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/heading-into-2026-microsoft-is-losing-the-fans-who-once-championed-them” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/heading-into-2026-microsoft-is-losing-the-fans-who-once-championed-them”>Microsoft also drove away its defenders.
Windows 11, Microsoft’s flagship OS, data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/2025-has-been-an-awful-year-for-windows-11-with-infuriating-bugs-and-constant-unwanted-features#mrfhud=true” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/2025-has-been-an-awful-year-for-windows-11-with-infuriating-bugs-and-constant-unwanted-features#mrfhud=true”>had a disastrous year full of bugs, half-baked data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence” data-auto-tag-linker=”true” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-redirect=”https://www.windowscentral.com/tag/artificial-intelligence” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence”>AI features, and other issues.
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