If 2025 was Microsoft's year of Copilot, then 2026 is shaping up to be Microsoft's year of cleaning up its mess. Between lots of AI integrations and buggy Windows updates, Microsoft has eroded user trust over the last year, and it knows it. Fortunately, the company is already making headway into fixing the operating system's biggest pain points, and it doesn't seem like it's going to stop any time soon.

In fact, Windows is undergoing such a radical change that even Microsoft's CEO has something to say about it. Satya Nadella has revealed what he has planned for the operating system during a recent earnings call, and it's good news for people who aren't happy with Windows' recent direction.

Satya Nadella says Microsoft wants to "win back fans"

And the company already has a plan to do just that

As spotted by Windows Latest, Microsoft has posted its Earnings Release for FY26 Q3. It's a pretty good read if you're into earnings, but there's a particularly interesting part in the Q&A transcript where Microsoft's CEO, Satya Nadella, discusses where the company is going. As it turns out, he's very interested in getting people back into the Microsoft ecosystem:

Finally, when it comes to our consumer business, we are doing the foundational work required to win back fans and strengthen engagement across Windows, Xbox, Bing, and Edge.

In the near term, we are focused on fundamentals, prioritizing quality and serving our core users better.

As proof of his work on this, he points to recent developments on Windows that deliver "performance improvements for lower memory devices" while also promising changes that hit upon "core features and fundamentals" for Microsoft's services. And given how we're already seeing Microsoft pull back on the Copilot rollout to fix some of Windows' biggest pain points, I'm willing to believe that Nadella will deliver.