Sunday, November 2, 2025

Can Microsoft Windows User Interface Be Trusted? Their AI suggests that we may not.

            With the slow and deliberate departure of Bill Gates at Microsoft, many life long users like myself have noticed a shift in many of the guiding principles that he built his empire upon and drilled into his teams and users around the world. More on this in upcoming post.

        Performing a simple task in Windows GUI should be a straight forward task. However, lately simple and Windows are drifting farther apart than most users are aware of. So being a cautious and detail oriented Admin, I enlisted Copilot as a precaution. 

            My AI coding pal and I have crossed this path before during development of an application and I had some issues attempting this before. A common practice is to move users home and/or profile folders off the boot drive to keep it clean and lean. I expected some secondary steps, but I was not expecting the answer I got from Copilot.

Important note on AI: I have been working with AI on a forensics grade Windows Configuration application so the level of detail it provides me is not necessarily what a normal user should expect. I possess no special access, think of it as a friend that knows my capabilities and usual focus.