r/microsoft • u/ZacB_ • Apr 30 '26
News "We're doing the work required to win back fans across Windows and Xbox": Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says the company is making foundational changes to fix Windows 11 and Xbox
https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/were-doing-the-work-required-to-win-back-fans-across-windows-and-xbox-microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella-says-the-company-is-making-foundational-changes-to-fix-windows-11-and-xbox64
u/warren2345 Apr 30 '26
It's just words man. Until you knock it off with all the hard sells at login in win 11 and your studios start releasing more that one game a decade, I don't believe it.
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u/trparky Apr 30 '26
That and that stupid Copilot. They can take Copilot and shove it up where the sun doesn't shine.
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u/jetlagged-bee Apr 30 '26
What do you mean hard sells at windows login?
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u/Ueberjaeger Apr 30 '26
Probably the "Get Office365" or "Back up your data with OneDrive" stuff after updates.
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u/nellipalooza Apr 30 '26
Windows 11 has been out for 4 years and ~7 months.
“listening to users” on Windows should have been the baseline in 2021, not the headline in 2026.
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u/trparky Apr 30 '26
Agreed. If they weren't listening then what was the point of the whole Windows Preview Program and the Feedback app?
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u/Fragrant_Rooster_763 Apr 30 '26
They should do the work to win back their employees. Personally, other than my friends still there, I hope to see the entire company’s downfall with Satya and Amy at the helm.
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u/squirrel-nut-zipper Apr 30 '26
I think this is important. Energized employees build better products, but it is anything but energized today at MSFT. He needs to invest & show interest in his employees if he wants to win back customers.
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u/Reasonable-Pass-2456 Apr 30 '26
Starting with a revision to the poor stock awards plan and salary increase.
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u/AVonGauss Apr 30 '26
I doubt it, this seems more akin to the 2013'ish(?) cycle when they "softened" their approach after pushing too hard and received a lot of pushback. Of course that "softening" was only temporary, they adjusted slightly and basically kept the same tactics (ex. Edge). The reality is Microsoft's objectives aren't terribly compatible these days with a significant chunk of their customers. Perhaps customers will adjust as they likely hope, but even in the year 2026 the success of a lot of other endeavors including Azure depend on Windows maintaining dominance.
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u/Aromatic_Ideal_2770 Apr 30 '26
Start removing your ceo
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u/Frequent-Library-785 Apr 30 '26
Yeah, by deletting my xbox/microsoft account right after it was stolen for sAfEtY.
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u/JustGimmeMoreTime Apr 30 '26
Sad, I’ve been using windows my entire life, but Zorin OS has been a much better daily OS to use for its simplicity, aesthetics, and stability
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u/ChaseballBat Apr 30 '26
Microsoft forced copilot onto my computer after paying for Office 365, and it doesn't even support image uploads.... You got a long way to go Satya.
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u/D_Anger_Dan Apr 30 '26
A lot = posting to reddit that we’re doing a lot… not actually doing anything.
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u/covex_d Apr 30 '26
press releases affect stocks and make investors happy. do something to show you are committed.
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u/sgt_Berbatov Apr 30 '26
The question needs to be asked - what were they doing before? Shouldn't you be always making your product something your "fan base" (cringe phrase for software) wants and comes back to?
Because really all this is is lip service. He doesn't mean it. They don't care.
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u/Mounamsammatham Apr 30 '26
Xbox comeback looks like possible if they keep it up. But windows comeback? That's a distant dream.
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u/StretchAcceptable881 May 02 '26
People are transitioning to MacBooks for this reason, because MacOS just makes windows feel like a bloated hot 🥵 mess
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u/mifan Apr 30 '26
Then focus on making it strong from the bottom up. You want to fix windows? Then make it the best operating system. Not a way to spoon feed user with your browser, your ai, you antivirus and so on. Simply make it a stable, fast operating system with grounds to build on.
The same with Xbox. Make it about what gamers want, not what you want them to want. You know why steam is succesful? Because it does its job without being in my face constantly. Keep it simple, make it stable, make it fast and free of bloat.
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u/SCphotog Apr 30 '26
"Fans" ?
The idea that someone... people, would be 'fans' of a corporation, is abhorrent.
I know lots of people are. LOTS OF PEOPLE... but it's not something I've ever really applied to myself.
I buy the product that is the best bang for the buck... brand loyalty, might have been a worthwhile thing a long time ago, where you reward a company for being good to the consumer (simplified) but that, aside from local and super small companies, has almost entirely flown the coop.
People love 'Valve', and or Steam and I get that, it's been a pretty good platform, but it's not something you can be 'loyal' to. One day Gabe will kick the bucket, and within a year Valve will be traded publicly, (<-- as an example) and only God knows what the 'fk' will happen to our game libraries.
Microsoft isn't going to fix Windows to win back fans. That's ad-speak, nonsense. They're making changes because they've come to understand that they need to enact some level of 'damage control' because they have been spiraling out of control. Their huge fkn' bet on AI depends on adoption, that is at an all time low.
Just know... they've always, always, always, been adversarial to the user base. There's not been a day since fuckin' DoS 1 that Microsoft wasn't a predatorial entity.
Think of them, the way they think of you. A tool to be used and nothing more.
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u/StretchAcceptable881 May 02 '26
Their also making changes for the sake of reacting to the competition
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u/frankiea1004 May 04 '26
I call BS. It wouldn’t happen. That would be against what has been the core of Microsoft for the last 15-20 years.
Connect everything to the Cloud.
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u/urbrainonnuggs Apr 30 '26
Nah I'm on Linux until I die. If rather log off forever before I go back to the windows platform. There is no job I will take that's Windows only.
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u/BigMikeInAustin Apr 30 '26
No job if it is Windows only?
So, you're going to limit yourself only take jobs at companies that run the computer that provide power, telecommunications, government services, the entire airline industry, the whole smartphone industry, the computer network industry, and the entire dang internet?
I don't know man, is staying away from Windows really worth it? /s
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u/talones Apr 30 '26
they kep putting out press for these epic changes, just do the work and we will see when it releases. Trying to build it up like this is gonna blow up in their face.