Microsoft doesn't understand the dislike for Windows' new direction (www.xda-developers.com)

Microsoft announced a shift toward an "agentic" Windows — an operating system in which AI takes on much of the decision-making and heavy lifting, with Copilot baked into the taskbar, filesystem, browser and apps. The move has provoked widespread user backlash on social media; Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman publicly expressed puzzlement at the hostility, contrasting critics’ reactions with his view that conversational, capable AI should feel exciting and inevitable. Critics counter that they aren’t rejecting AI itself but object to indiscriminate, system‑level injection of assistance where it’s unnecessary. This matters because an agentic OS changes core UX and platform boundaries: AI acting autonomously across the file system, UI chrome and web context raises design, privacy, control and interoperability questions, and risks creating bloat or incorrect automated actions when context is misunderstood. Many users want narrowly targeted, opt‑in AI features inside particular apps rather than a pervasive Copilot. If Microsoft presses ahead without addressing those concerns, it could slow user adoption, provoke developer and enterprise resistance, and intensify scrutiny over how such system‑level agents manage decisions, data and user intent.