By Rupert Goodwins
Publication Date: 2026-05-05 08:30:00
Opinion It’s been another shabby week for Microsoft, and a shabbier one for its users. We learnt that Windows 11’s epic habit of trying to corral customers into paid-for Microsoft services just got worse with a low-rent trick. Remote Desktop got a bit more secure, which is good, but in a way that suggests not too much user testing took place. As for GitHub… GitHub got two helpings of Chef Redmondo’s Special Sauce.
The first course is the signature dish of Microsoft’s code cuisine, Pâté de Foul AI, in which AI is force-fed down our necks much as geese have tubes stuck down theirs to make Pâté de Foie Gras. This is not good news for the geese, but in GitHub’s case it’s not much good for Microsoft either. Its effusive over-offer is proving unsustainable and it has had to introduce rationing. It’s all a bit of a mess, especially for a Big Tech outfit that claims intimate knowledge of developers and of AI.