“Fully modular” reads to me as “1 step away from returning to the terminal-mainframe” business model.
this post was submitted on 04 Mar 2026
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Is it April 1 already?
April Fools?
For all the people on here quick to mock others for being gullible enough to fall for AI-generated slop, this is embarrassing.
It's not the users that are being gullible as much as "tech4gamers.com" that published the story and the news sites that copied them. They deserve the ire here.
This. If you are a "news" outlet it is your literal only job to make sure the information you report is factual.
Yeah I initially saw the OP's article shared on Mastodon by some generally reliable individuals and honestly my BS sensors went wild. The described roadmap by the sources from Windows Central makes a lot more sense for Microsoft given the current environment. Its the exact same thing they did around this time in Windows 10s lifecycle, squash some bugs and quietly reduce the stuff that users generally did not like and weren't being used (such as Cortana, remember that?)
Heh, this line cracked me up :
In fact, I understand that the Windows roadmap for 2026 is all about fixing Windows 11
Also, thank you for your service.
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Not doing a subscription based OS.
Just throwing that out there.
We already have that with Apple. Your subscription is buying the hardware. But for a company that makes just the surface (which is admittedly nice but seems to have forgotten what it was for) no, nobody is doing that.
B-b-but it includes a free One Drive subscription!! (for 6 months) - Microslop Corporation
My Linux server at home can be accessed via WireGuard, i2p, Yggdrasil, carrier pigeon, no, I don’t fucking care. Screw off with your abusive dependancies. You solve zero problems and claim to solve them all. Fuck right off a cliff.
Absofuckinglutely not.
And I say this as a dedicated Windows user who spent a year on Ubuntu Linux a decade ago and hated it. Windows does this, and sign me up for penguin lessons.
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"Fully modular" as 'It can run on a toaster" or as "For access to the file manager, subscribe to premium"?
Fully modular as in it runs in a VM in the cloud that you pay them for access to
Fun thing:
My laptop (from 2020) somehow skipped last year's update and only recently decided to update to the most recent Windows 11 release. And my first thought was "oh shit, is it going to install that Recall nonsense?" ...good news: not only is Recall not installed by default but the laptop is officially too shitty to run Recall. (...it's perfectly adequate for running everything else though!)
Which got me thinking:
Remember how mad everyone was when Windows 11 came out, requiring TPM 2.0, and how people were asked to buy new hardware?
Gee golly gosh, I hope Microsoft isn't seriously going to say "yeah, you're going to need to buy a new computer - so you can utilise all these awesome new AI features, you see." Because people just love buying new hardware. Again. In this economy.
I'm curious on what they mean by "fully modular". Coming from Linux I think I have a different definition of "fully modular" than they do.
Dollars to donuts it means you get base functionality with M$ developed apps (Edge, Copilot, Mail, O365 and OneDrive), and the Microsoft store is limited to just publishers that pay them or feed them data. Nothing can be installed except through their storefront.
Pay extra and you can unlock advanced features like installing from .exe files and using apps from non-partner but "trusted" publishers. So that way you get Google Chrome.
Pay for the developer's subscription and you can run anything you want, just don't expect support for it.
Pay a little more and you might get to use some things offline, like Office or Adobe. Or maybe not, they need that telemetry to feed you ads, which no amount of money will get rid of.
I’m skeptical about this seeing as there are also articles pointing out that this is fake news.
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Hahahahaha, get fucked Microslop
Finally the year of linux desktop!
I know the Epstein files revealed that all the last Windows versions have been named after Microsoft leaderships' preferred rape victim ages but I still don't think I'm ready to switch to Linux.
Wtf is a “fully-modular” OS
One can only hope it means Edge will be a module and you'll finally be able to yeet it off the hard drive.
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Want the clock? That'd be $2 a month. A calculator? $5.
Honestly, no idea.
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Hey people are already leaving the OS for Linux, theres no need to advertise for Linux even more.
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So when they said "windows 10 will be the last windows", they were kinda right. Just not the way the imagined...
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continuing to up the hardware requirements and pricing people out of the market to satisfy features nobody cares about. brilliant strategy.
Windows 12? Well, I'm using Debian 13. 13 is a bigger number than 12; therefore, Debian is better than Windows.
NixOS ~~25.11~~ unstable :/
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Excellent. Finally the cycle of alternating good and bad versions of Windows will be broken. It'll just be bad versions from here on out.
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I'll go against the grain and say I like this. Maybe the AI, data collection, and enshittification will be something you have to subscribe to but the base bare bones OS will be free.... /s
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Fuck does fully modular mean?
Theyre gonna sell you features piecemeal instead of it being a complete system.
Which features though. Edge? Copilot? Media player? Installing outside the store? Access to terminal? The filesystem? Uptime per day?
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I don't know if anyone else saw this, but apparently Windows Insider reports that this is all speculation, and that MSoft had committed to rolling back AI features, and Windows 12 has been postponed until 11 is fixed.
Meanwhile, 26H2, set to release later this year is reported to have CoPilot integrated into file explorer. Not really sure who to believe, but with MSlop's behavior lately, I'm leaning toward being more disappointed than I initially expect.
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Subscription-based. AI-focused.
Lol. No thanks.
Just it being Windows, no matter those things, should be enough for everyone to go "Lol. No thanks." But sadly that isn't and won't be the case. Hundreds of millions of people will just go along with it, even the idea of something else existing will never occur for them and Microsoft knows this. All the hate and outrage about how evil they are and how Windows has gone to (from like Windows 95) absolute shit has only made a very small portion of their possible userbase switch to or even ignited the idea of finding out about something else. I think the only way Microsoft will loose enough "customers" is if it just dies, nothing else will make the average person lift a single finger or have a neuron activate for making the leap.
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