By https://www.tomsguide.com/author/lloyd-coombes
Publication Date: 2026-08-10 07:30:00
It’s a little sad being a fan of tech these days. AI is consuming the world’s art and emotion and spitting out slop, and it’s driving up the price of just about every piece of consumer electronics as it does.
If you don’t need to upgrade your computer anytime soon, then you’re in a good spot – except Windows 11 is doing its damnedest to be a mess of Copilot and bugs. While Microsoft is moving to improve things (with Windows head honcho Pavan Davuluri promising big changes back in March), it feels as though we might be better off nuking the whole thing from orbit.
A bloated mess
In an update published last week, Davuluri shared a number of changes the team had made in the months since committing to improving Windows 11.
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It’s well worth a read, but what strikes me are the elements that feel so foundational to Windows. Windows 11 is almost 5 years old, and yet the team is now working on a “faster and more dependable File Explorer” and…



