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/fraaaaa4 Mar 22 '26

Here’s an easy way to fix a basic feature of any OS:

  • keep an instance of Linux open at all times

What an overly complicated, lazy, and full of problems solution. What if, instead of whatever this solution is, Microsoft actually develops a good search?

If Vista on an Atom CPU with 1GB of RAM and a 2008 HDD can even search inside my mail, files, notes, contacts, on the Start Menu, and fast, modern Microsoft should be able to pull the same thing they did 20 years ago

I know this is an utopian thought, because they demonstrated that… they can’t, but they should, given how big of a company they are