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Microsoft is working to rebuild trust in Windows
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this post was submitted on 29 Jan 2026
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Good luck with that - you would need to scrap the entire operating system.
And a lot of leadership and investors
They can't scrap their whole operating system: the only thing keeping people on Windows is its backwards compatibility.
There was a theory that Microsoft could just release a Linux distro with a first party windows skin on it
If planned obsolescence wasn't a concern this would be a decent way to improve - use the Linux kernel, ported or recreated interface and a compatibility layer for games or whatever it is that keeps people on Windows.