Microsoft Commits to Greater Transparency with Windows 11 Features Roadmap

[AleksandarK]

If you ever wondered when a Windows 11 feature you are looking for is coming, there is now a way to check that out, as Microsoft is now committed to being more transparent with its upcoming features. In the latest Windows IT Pro blog, the statement reads: "At Microsoft, we've had the privilege to talk to thousands of IT professionals just like you, across the globe, about your experience managing Windows. Across those conversations, one thing rings loud and clear: the need for more transparency around what's shipping and when so that you can manage change for your estate." Interestingly, the roadmap will display features currently available for validation in the Windows Insider Program, those gradually rolling out to broader users, and those that will become generally available as part of a future monthly non-security update.

However, Microsoft is using the roadmap for feature cancellations, too. "The Windows roadmap provides estimated release dates and descriptions for features being released. All information is subject to change. As a feature or product is canceled or postponed, information will be removed from this website." This roadmap is tailored for Microsoft's Windows 11 client builds, not the Windows Server users. Large organizations have to manage many PC clients, so knowing when a new feature drops can lead to a better-planned OS update path for minimal downtime and productivity loss. Plus, PC enthusiasts running the latest Windows build can now know when to expect a feature they look forward to, like Recall and Click to Do.



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[theFOoL]

Well to me... MS Had already screwed up. Like why they didn't add more you begin with. Heck there are some free modifications to have this but ofc whatever MS update comes a problem so that's why I stopped investing my time with the mods

 

[Vayra86]

Ooh nice now I can see what I'm not going to update to.

 

[dismuter]

Can we have a less buggy File Explorer, Action Center and Start Menu? Like, you know, the basic features of the OS? It drives me crazy when I press the Windows key and type something to search, only to realize that the start menu took some time to load and didn't take my input into account. File Explorer is a dumpster fire because of their technical choice of XAML Islands. Their new context menu is also a fiasco, and you don't even get it when dragging with the right click.

And also how about a much more lightweight Task Manager? That thing is sluggish as hell and uses a ton of CPU just for itself.

When was the last time that Windows was snappy and had a consistent UI throughout??

 

[Wirko]

"At Microsoft, we've had the privilege to talk to thousands of IT professionals just like you, across the globe, about your experience managing Windows."

For some unfortunate reason, you didn't have that privilege in 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, or 2010. Sorry to hear that. I'm confident everything will be back on the right track before the quarter is over.

 

[azrael]

The only item on that roadmap that I'd like to see is when Windows 11 goes away. The sooner, the better.

 

[Legacy-ZA]

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

Unfortunately these companies get too far out on their skis and the results are painful. W11 should be better than W10 in the tangible and measurable ways, but it has gotten worse in many of them. The update model should be pretty good now, but instead the latest official patch or service pack is a thing to wait on while they “get it right.” They’ve even dropped lots of legacy hardware, which should make things better.

Apple isn’t all that different either. Their Apple Intelligence has been a joke, and Siri is a mess. And they promised these features before they were even in alpha, apparently. These companies seem to think we need this stuff, when many don’t even want it yet.

 

[Easo]

As far as I am concerned this will be useful to have.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Now they need to take things a step back(in the correct direction) and stop forcing unwanted/unacceptable crap on us.

 

[notoperable]

M$ transparency example: Error 0x0800B00B some error occured!

Black box debugging, poisoning of oss projects with trap licensing, obfuscation in everything that's outside of what M$ wants users to follow or know and a globally deployedl SaaS aka System as a Spyware™
and their favourite word: Telemetry.

Seriously, you sure the didn't confused Telemetry with Transparency.
Transparency? Quoting a famous Senator from Wired: shieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee*,

Unfortunately these companies get too far out on their skis and the results are painful. W11 should be better than W10 in the tangible and measurable ways, but it has gotten worse in many of them. The update model should be pretty good now, but instead the latest official patch or service pack is a thing to wait on while they “get it right.” They’ve even dropped lots of legacy hardware, which should make things better.

Apple isn’t all that different either. Their Apple Intelligence has been a joke, and Siri is a mess. And they promised these features before they were even in alpha, apparently. These companies seem to think we need this stuff, when many don’t even want it yet.

Its better in data points gathering on everything

 

[watzupken]

There are a lot of things that Microsoft needs to fix and fix quickly. Yet they chose to find something that people are not complaining to fix, just shows how tone deaf they have become. If they want to go down the path of roadmap transparency, how about adding the option to opt out as part of it? Glad I am slowly bailing out of this messed up OS.

M$ transparency example: Error 0x0800B00B some error occured!

Black box debugging, poisoning of oss projects with trap licensing, obfuscation in everything that's outside of what M$ wants users to follow or know and a globally deployedl SaaS aka System as a Spyware™
and their favourite word: Telemetry.

Seriously, you sure the didn't confused Telemetry with Transparency.
Transparency? Quoting a famous Senator from Wired: shieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee*,


Its better in data points gathering on everything

When anyone other than big companies like MS creates a software that takes information from you device (whether you like it or now), that's a spyware. When Microsoft does it, it is a "safeware", no problems at all. Just shows the hypocrisy and irony.

 

[Steevo]

I want to kill Copilot in 365 but that’s not an option yet. Congratulations MS on your most recent “innovation” being trash. I haven’t met anyone at work or on the IT team that wants AI on any of our devices.

 

[tpa-pr]

Can we have a less buggy File Explorer, Action Center and Start Menu? Like, you know, the basic features of the OS? It drives me crazy when I press the Windows key and type something to search, only to realize that the start menu took some time to load and didn't take my input into account. File Explorer is a dumpster fire because of their technical choice of XAML Islands. Their new context menu is also a fiasco, and you don't even get it when dragging with the right click.

And also how about a much more lightweight Task Manager? That thing is sluggish as hell and uses a ton of CPU just for itself.

When was the last time that Windows was snappy and had a consistent UI throughout??

I use Windows 11 at work and Linux (with Plasma desktop) at home. This is the most jarring thing about using Windows. Everything feels so sluggish to respond compared to Plasma and it's so aggravating. I'm used to navigating quite quickly through my OS so when I click something and it doesn't respond for a full second or more I can feel my temper flaring.

I still don't quite understand why they decided these critical components needed a rewrite, then proceeded to make them worse and have yet to fix even the most basic user experience issues.

 

[lemonadesoda]

I don't seem to have these problems that you guys are complaining about!

And you all know that Copilot is the DEI version of Mr Clippy Office Assistant - but now ALL OVER your OS not just under the Office desk - now under your whole desktop!

 

[Legacy-ZA]

Waiting on 25H2, will have to do a clean slate install, just in case, and will have to see how much I can disable by making a custom ISO and then use Revo-uninstaller to remove any remnants in case MS sneaks something past me with an "update"

Too much bloatware in Windows 11 and stuff I don't want and will never use.

 

[cal5582]

how about some actual quality assurance testing before just throwing code out into the wild.

I want to kill Copilot in 365 but that’s not an option yet. Congratulations MS on your most recent “innovation” being trash. I haven’t met anyone at work or on the IT team that wants AI on any of our devices.

giant security risk. go read up on document control for copilot. its trash

Can we have a less buggy File Explorer, Action Center and Start Menu? Like, you know, the basic features of the OS? It drives me crazy when I press the Windows key and type something to search, only to realize that the start menu took some time to load and didn't take my input into account. File Explorer is a dumpster fire because of their technical choice of XAML Islands. Their new context menu is also a fiasco, and you don't even get it when dragging with the right click.

And also how about a much more lightweight Task Manager? That thing is sluggish as hell and uses a ton of CPU just for itself.

When was the last time that Windows was snappy and had a consistent UI throughout??

probably before 8. they retired a bunch of their senior coders around 09 and then petitioned the us govt for more h1b visas around 2012

 

[Psyclown]

Can we have a less buggy File Explorer, Action Center and Start Menu? Like, you know, the basic features of the OS? It drives me crazy when I press the Windows key and type something to search, only to realize that the start menu took some time to load and didn't take my input into account. File Explorer is a dumpster fire because of their technical choice of XAML Islands. Their new context menu is also a fiasco, and you don't even get it when dragging with the right click.

And also how about a much more lightweight Task Manager? That thing is sluggish as hell and uses a ton of CPU just for itself.

When was the last time that Windows was snappy and had a consistent UI throughout??

Oh I know right. File explorer has been absolutely horrible for me the last several years and I’m not alone. I have friends that have the same issues I’m having.

Before I got my new PC, I thought it was just my old one going out. Get the new pc up and running, same problems. Slow, buggy and unresponsive.

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

Yeah, file explorer is a mess. My favorite is how it grinds to a slow chug when copying a large amount of files. The system even goes unresponsive. To give you an idea how bad, I copied 120GB of files from a 2013 Mac Pro to a SATA SSD via USB3, and it took 9 minutes. Copied from that drive to a brand new setup with an NVME drive, and it took over 30 minutes and the system was so laggy it was unusable.

 

[Vayra86]

"At Microsoft, we've had the privilege to talk to thousands of IT professionals just like you, across the globe, about your experience managing Windows."

For some unfortunate reason, you didn't have that privilege in 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, or 2010. Sorry to hear that. I'm confident everything will be back on the right track before the quarter is over.

Right... I loved that story about Microsoft learning to count to 10 and it being the last one evar. Now we've regressed into 11 and boy... if only they had stopped counting. I mean sure, it runs. But I'll not let it run itself anymore, no fcking way. LTSC, IoT and frozen in time is The Way now. On my work laptop its 10 and even just the constant changes to Teams are doing my head in. WTF are you doing MS. Everytime we have some kind of workflow or system between our teams, MS chooses to move shit around. Constant goddamn GUI changes. Is this agile? Or this is just I cant make up my fucking mind because Im clueless. And it stings, because overall the whole thing DOES run, does not crash all the time, and there is a good amount of functionality in it for what its all supposed to do.

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

Right... I loved that story about Microsoft learning to count to 10 and it being the last one evar. Now we've regressed into 11 and boy... if only they had stopped counting. I mean sure, it runs. But I'll not let it run itself anymore, no fcking way. LTSC, IoT and frozen in time is The Way now. On my work laptop its 10 and even just the constant changes to Teams are doing my head in. WTF are you doing MS. Everytime we have some kind of workflow or system between our teams, MS chooses to move shit around. Constant goddamn GUI changes. Is this agile? Or this is just I cant make up my fucking mind because Im clueless. And it stings, because overall the whole thing DOES run, does not crash all the time, and there is a good amount of functionality in it for what its all supposed to do.

Yeah, new outlook is worse than Teams. Every time it updates, it forgets that I want new mails to pop out in a new window, and that I DON’T want it to help me complete my sentences. That second one annoys me so much. Not only does it break my concentration, but how lazy can you be to not even complete your own thoughts or type your own sentences?

 

[Vayra86]

Yeah, new outlook is worse than Teams. Every time it updates, it forgets that I want new mails to pop out in a new window, and that I DON’T want it to help me complete my sentences. That second one annoys me so much. Not only does it break my concentration, but how lazy can you be to not even complete your own thoughts or type your own sentences?

Yeah I dont like that either - same problem really. GUI changes. And not an improvement. Its a wild guessing game of ribbons, pop-outs, pop-ups, tabs... man. We had buttons. It was fine. WE COULD SEE WHAT WE COULD DO. And all those rounded edges take away so much space. Its beyond stupid, what strikes most is how they're stuck in a corner anyway because they still need to keep offering all the functionality and cannot hide that its really just Windows 95 with some new paint after 30 years. Which is fine. Just make a coherent painting.

 

[kilo]

There also removing local accounts or at least trying harder this time.

"We’re removing the bypassnro.cmd script from the build to enhance security and user experience of Windows 11. This change ensures that all users exit setup with internet connectivity and a Microsoft Account."

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[blinnbanir]

There is too much telemetry built into Windows 11.

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

Yeah I dont like that either - same problem really. GUI changes. And not an improvement. Its a wild guessing game of ribbons, pop-outs, pop-ups, tabs... man. We had buttons. It was fine. WE COULD SEE WHAT WE COULD DO. And all those rounded edges take away so much space. Its beyond stupid, what strikes most is how they're stuck in a corner anyway because they still need to keep offering all the functionality and cannot hide that its really just Windows 95 with some new paint after 30 years. Which is fine. Just make a coherent painting.

Apple has had the same general UI for 24 years. Sure, it's seen itself go through some changes, like 3D to 2D and from tight padding to wider padding, but that's just style changing with the times (and to account for far higher-DPI displays than what we had in 2001). Heck, Apple kept the same control panel for most of those years, and finally changed that with Ventura, and it mirrors the iPad and is more easily discoverable. I know Windows has technically not changed much from a general UI perspective, but MS has gone through multiple control panels, and some features haven't seen a visual refresh in 20 years. With Windows, every design change looks decent until you get a layer or two deep, and then you'll find that there is no consistency. Heck, Office alone has never followed the general UI design rules that every other developer must use. It's just a reminder that MS is a huge company with departments that never communicate with each other.

Change isn't bad, but a good rule when it comes to design is that it should be meaningful, thought-out change. It shouldn't feel like rearranging the deck chairs on the titanic.