Earlier this month, Microsoft described its vision of Windows evolving into an “agentic” operating system that takes action on your behalf, prompting a wave of backlash from users who argued the company had deprioritized performance in favor of automation that nobody wanted nor asked for. Many pointed to longstanding issues with performance, UX fragmentation, and developer-hostile defaults, asking why those problems weren’t being addressed first.
In a recent reply posted to X, aimed at an original…
