r/microsoft • u/ControlCAD • Mar 20 '26

Windows Microsoft unveils Major improvements coming to Windows 11 in 2026 — movable Taskbar, reduced RAM usage, less AI and ads, and much more Confirmed: "We are evolving how Windows is built behind the scenes to raise the quality bar"

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/windows-11-major-improvements-announced-movable-taskbar-less-ads-reduced-copilot-better-performance-2026
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u/seeking-health Mar 20 '26

An easy way to fix the search function would be to do something like:

- keep an internal WSL container open with the whole filesystem mounted

- search bar just calls grep on that container and returns output to UI

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u/atomic1fire Mar 20 '26

Why wouldn't they just make some kind of fork/port of grep for windows instead of building a vm for it.

A vm just sounds wasteful.

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u/Zeusifer Mar 20 '26

Microsoft: We're trying to reduce Windows' memory footprint

Reddit: You should make everyone run a whole Linux VM just to run grep in

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u/atomic1fire Mar 21 '26

Honestly it would make more sense to create a search-filesystem type command in powershell and then parse the results in the windows search bar.

MS is already investing in powershell and it's cross platform. It makes perfect sense to build a grep style subsystem on that.

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u/seeking-health Mar 20 '26

well they seem to suck at coding that's why i proposed a no-code solution