By @mgsiegler
Publication Date: 2026-03-21 14:48:00
Anyone complaining about the latest coat of paint on top of macOS should stop and read this post by Ed Bott. Or this one. Or this one. Or any of these. But Bott in particular eviscerates Microsoft this week for their (mis)management of Windows.
Granted, it has been a long time since I used Windows on a regular basis. While it dominated the first 20 years of my computing life (post-MS DOS), the last 20 years have been almost entirely on macOS (post-OS X). So I guess I didn’t realize just how bad Windows 11 apparently is. Maybe not a Vista-level disaster,1 but judging from Microsoft’s own post about their (apparently newfound) “commitment to quality”, it sure reads like basically everything in Windows 11 well, sucks.
Here’s Bott commenting on that post:
What’s most remarkable about this post is what it doesn’t contain. Here’s how Davuluri kicked things off:
“Every day, we hear from the community about how you experience Windows. And over the past several months, the team and I…
