Microsoft seems to be toning down on all the AI PC pitch and ordered its engineers to make Windows 11 work normally and fix the ongoing issues. The company has put heavy bets on the AI PCs starting a new
era for the industry and it wants Windows 11 to be spearheading this charge. But the over AI-ness of Windows 11 is likely to have irked many users and the company is reportedly going to tone it down over the next few months and years.
Things have clearly gone beyond the usual AI integration and we have seen this with the Microsoft Paint offering AI tools while other apps (not needed) also going the AI way, even if nobody really asked for it. Microsoft is aware of the market views and the report by Windows Central suggests the company is now ready to rework its AI strategy and tone down the use and integration of Copilot to select apps and features.
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The report claims Microsoft could tone down the Copilot AI integrations or even remove from some of the apps where it doesn’t really need to be. More importantly, we could see the company kill the ideal on its Recall feature, which, the report says, has not worked out as planned. The engineers have been told to pause work on further Copilot integrations, and actually make the Windows 11 platform stable and perform with efficiency rather than deliver flashy, not-so-useful AI features.
The Windows 10 end of support in 2025 has given Microsoft the ideal window to have people upgrade to a new PC, and that means the pitch for them to invest in an AI PC was far louder. But the market has responded to the demand in its usual form, and not just because the company has made a strong case for everyone to get an AI PC/laptop.
We have tested quite a few Windows 11 with AI features in the last 12 months, and most of them showed promise for their AI-ness but nothing made us feel the features became indispensable to using the machine.
Yes, the battery life on these PCs have improved but that’s because of the changes in the hardware architecture which allowed the main CPU to focus on handling the main tasks and let the neural processing unit to keep the AI tools running without adding the extra load.
If this report does have some credible truth, we are hoping to see them offered with future updates so that Windows 11 can run and offer better and stable performance rather than make a pitch for something that a miniscule portion of the user base really want or use.
