2025 has been a disaster for Windows 11  windowscentral.com

Zac Bowden wrote a long article stating that Windows fans (the author's definition) have been sold a “disastrous 2025 for Windows 11.” I haven't used Windows in many years and have barely touched version 11, so I read it with extra attention.

Anyway, I'm sure you can guess the most obvious problem with Windows 11 in 2025:

Copilot has forced its way into almost every surface and intention on the platform. Heck, even Notepad now has a Copilot button, which is something literally nobody has ever asked for. Microsoft’s AI intentions feel obsessive and forced, almost as if the company is just throwing everything at the wall to see what sticks.

Microsoft's biggest crime, without a doubt, was tarnishing Notepad. (And I mean that, no joke.)

I confess that I can no longer keep up with Windows 11 releases. From the outside, the volume of releases and of new features seem super confusing. I thought it was more my lack of interest/distance than Microsoft's mistakes. I discovered in Zac’s column that the problem is not me:

Today, thanks to Continuous Innovation, Microsoft is able to ship new features whenever the company deems them ready. Every. Single. Month. This means there’s now a constant churn of new features, with no breaks or respite. Users never get a chance to breathe.

On top of this is Microsoft’s Controlled Feature Rollout (CFR) system, which makes it so some users don’t see the new features even after installing the update that supposedly includes them, making it literally impossible to predict and prepare for when a new feature might actually arrive on your PC.

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Continuous Innovation essentially boils down to allowing Microsoft to force new features onto you whenever it wants, because the company ties these new features to monthly security updates, which are essentially required if you want to use your computer safely on the internet.

Would it be too much to ask for a more Debian-like Windows, with major updates every other year?

Microsoft also just announced that it’s bringing back the agenda view to the calendar flyout on the Taskbar, but it looks like that feature is built using web tech instead of Windows 11’s native UI stack. That’s frankly unacceptable, but this is the sort of thing Microsoft does on a frequent basis these days.

A spike in CPU consumption and hundreds of megabytes of memory to display a calendar in a small square. Perhaps we are experiencing the worst time to use Windows since… ever.