At least, unlike microslop, they ARE fixing things based on user feedback.

So is Microsoft, albeit a bit late to the party. Taskbar now movable, performance improvements hitting insider builds, MS BUILD half about WSL containers, native coreutils, a dev edition of windows using Winget config to strip all the bloat out, all new system dialogs replacing a good chunk of the old Win32 stuff, WinUI reactor, ability to remove AI models & Copilot from the OS, etc.

Classic case of the reality distortion field here.

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dmitrygr 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Oh? So I can now disable "AI" and "onedrive" and "microsoft accounts" in windows? COOL! where do i enable that?

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thewebguyd 4 hours ago | parent [-]

You always could disable OneDrive (it's uninstallable), and you could always use a local account on Pro editions of Windows, that's nothing new.

Uninstalling Copilot and the local AI models is whats new on current insider builds.

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dmitrygr 3 hours ago | parent [-]

https://www.google.com/search?q=microsoft+blocks+local+accou...

https://redmondmag.com/articles/2025/10/08/microsoft-ends-lo...

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thewebguyd 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Hmm, funny, because I literally just set up a Win11 PRO machine yesterday, I could still create a local account, no bypass script needed.

Your links only apply to Home editions.

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sudokatsu 3 hours ago | parent [-]

We shouldn’t give them praise for gatekeeping it behind a paywall.

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Melatonic 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Wait - what is the dev edition of windows?

	▲	thewebguyd 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Edition is probably a bit generous (although that's the verbiage they used at the BUILD conference), but its a set of winget configs (works like Ansible) to disable a bunch of stuff, install WSL, starship, coreutils, node, python, whatever other SDKs you want, etc. with one command. https://github.com/microsoft/WindowsDeveloperConfig I believe they used the word edition because they plan on offering W365 cloud VMs with this config pre applied.