Microsoft is finally making fixing Windows 11's biggest problems a priority

Published Jul 31, 2026, 3:06 PM EDT Patrick O'Rourke is XDA's News Editor and Entertainment Segment Lead. Previously, he was Pocket-lint's Editor-in-Chief, the Editor-in-Chief of Canadian tech publication MobileSyrup, and earlier in his career, he worked as the technology editor at the Financial Post and Postmedia. He's based in Toronto. Over the past 15 years, he's written thousands of articles. Patrick has also interviewed dozens of tech industry executives and covered GDC, E3, Gamescom, WWDC, Apple keynotes, Samsung Unpacked events and more. Patrick has a BA in journalism from Toronto Metropolitan University. Sign in to your XDA account In a recent post on X, Pavan Davuluri, Microsoft's head of all things Windows, offered an update on the company's plan to continue to fix Windows 11's key issues. We've already seen updates like reducing the presence of Copilot, a more intuitive update process, improved search, and a Taskbar you can actually move, to name a few examples of recent Windows 11 improvements. Now, Davuluri has laid out four areas that Microsoft will focus on between now and the end of 2026. Check them out below: Onboarding and setup. Delivering a faster and more efficient out-of-box experience. Memory optimization for 8GB and above. Reducing Windows memory footprint to deliver a fast and responsive Windows experience across the PCs customers use every day. Family.Providing a faster set up and making it easier for families to access useful parental controls. Voice.Making voice more natural and fluid to interact across the apps you use every day. Microsoft wants to make Windows 11 run more smoothly on PCs with 8GB of RAM The tech giant's commitment to improving its OS is impressive Additionally, Microsoft says that it wants to make Windows 11 run better on PCs that only feature 8GB of RAM. Given the ongoing rampocalypse, the success of Apple's low-cost, RAM-focused MacBook Neo, and the fact that the company just released 8GB of RAM options for its new Surface devices, this isn't surprising. Whether Microsoft will be able to actually reduce Windows 11's memory footprint in a meaningful way is another question altogether — and even if it does, a laptop that features 8GB of RAM will be very limited in what it's capable of. "We're going to take everything we've learned since March and keep listening and closing the loop on your feedback. The signal from you is clear: keep going. We intend to," wrote Davulri in the X post.While it's easy to complain about the fact that Microsoft even needed to make these improvements to Windows 11 in the first place, the tech giant's commitment to improving its operating system is refreshing, especially since it really seems to finally be listening to its most hardcore users about its comprehensive plan to fix the OS.