335: With Craft and Focus

About this episode

The episode discusses Microsoft's plans to improve Windows 11 and addresses its shortcomings.

It's time to fix Windows 11. OK, that might be a little ambitious for one podcast episode, but it's at least time to step through the plan Microsoft unveiled recently for improving Windows 11 and addressing some of its shortcomings (and perhaps salvaging its brand a bit in the process). We go over forthcoming changes around the taskbar and Start Menu, File Explorer, notifications, native WinUI interface components, WSL2, device drivers, and a bunch of other stuff, plus bring plenty of our own large and small, realistic and far-fetched ideas for making Windows tolerable again.

People in this episode

Hosts: Brad Shoemaker, Will Smith

Topics covered

• Windows 11
• Microsoft updates
• taskbar changes
• File Explorer
• user interface
• technology improvements

Keywords

• Windows 11
• Microsoft
• taskbar
• File Explorer
• notifications
• WinUI
• WSL2
• device drivers

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Microsoft

Products: Windows 11, WSL2

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