I read Microsoft's Windows 11 'quality' progress report - and the subtext says it all

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Microsoft says it's refocusing Windows on performance and reliability. File Explorer, Search, and Start are getting responsiveness fixes. The pressure to add new AI-based annoyances hasn't gone away. Earlier this year, Microsoft Windows boss Pavan Davuluri wrote an open letter addressed to the Windows Insider community but really aimed at a much larger cohort of frustrated Windows enthusiasts and power users. That post laid out a laundry list of improvements that would be coming to Windows: more control over updates, a "more intentional" approach to AI, more attention to performance and…