Introducing Windows 11 • Hacker News Board

Re: Introducing Windows 11

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Post by tehbeard » Thu, Jun 24, 2021, 4:40 PM UTC

haolez wrote: post #12

Windows nowadays feels like a carefully crafted piece of software built by brilliant engineering and UX teams that, just before release, gets crapped all over by ads teams with annoyances and dark patterns. It must be frustrating to work in the former.

Idk, it feels like the UX team has been hitting the whiskey, and the UI team slapped something together to squeeze out a pay rise. And then the ads team garnishes that with terribleness.

And now, the teams team wants to make it worse.

Re: Introducing Windows 11

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Post by NmAmDa » Thu, Jun 24, 2021, 4:41 PM UTC

> The web was born and grew up on Windows

I think CERN engineers while working on web and www protocol were using unix as windows was not even there yet.

https://home.cern/science/computing/birth-web

Re: Introducing Windows 11

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Post by cnasc » Thu, Jun 24, 2021, 4:41 PM UTC

cblconfederate wrote: post #2

Rounded corners and touchscreens, is that windows 8/vista again? What i want from windows is speed . More and more people are going to be using them to work from home, and not on a tablet or a laptop, but on a good old desktop pc, their sales are going up. What's the rationale behind this kind of regression to terrible windows 8? Can i plz have snappier windows 7 with slightly cleaner look? > app developers can now b…

> Rounded corners and touchscreens, is that windows 8 again?

Windows 8 distinctly had no rounded corners. The metro design language was quite square

Re: Introducing Windows 11

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Post by CozySoy » Thu, Jun 24, 2021, 4:41 PM UTC

Here they go again, messing with the start menu...

Hard to believe that they didn't learn from Windows 8, but they didn't.

Also: weren't we told multiple times that there would be no successor to Windows 10? That all future versions of Windows would just be updates?

Re: Introducing Windows 11

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Post by Biganon » Thu, Jun 24, 2021, 4:41 PM UTC

DrNuke wrote: post #9

> Windows 11 will be available through a free upgrade for eligible Windows 10 PCs and on new PCs beginning this holiday. Wow!

"We don't need to sell you anything, your data is enough"

Re: Introducing Windows 11

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Post by edgeform » Thu, Jun 24, 2021, 4:41 PM UTC

Easy to thumb our noses at it, and this community is already on it in spades from the comments so far.

I'll wait and see. I like Win10 much more than I thought I would. I rode Win7 into the sunset, only abandoning the ship about a week before they dropped security updates for it because I thought I'd dislike Win10 so much. I even ran Ubuntu as my desktop OS for about four months before switching back over to Microsoft and Win10.

I'll wait and see this time.

Re: Introducing Windows 11

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Post by irthomasthomas » Thu, Jun 24, 2021, 4:41 PM UTC

cblconfederate wrote: post #2

Rounded corners and touchscreens, is that windows 8/vista again? What i want from windows is speed . More and more people are going to be using them to work from home, and not on a tablet or a laptop, but on a good old desktop pc, their sales are going up. What's the rationale behind this kind of regression to terrible windows 8? Can i plz have snappier windows 7 with slightly cleaner look? > app developers can now b…

I use Linux now but keep windows VMs around for some legacy stuff. It takes about 5-10s to boot win7. It's snappy as heck, and reliable, even in a vm with minimal ram.

Re: Introducing Windows 11

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Post by jlduan » Thu, Jun 24, 2021, 4:41 PM UTC

Haven't been able to find the release schedule, when will MS deliver it?

Re: Introducing Windows 11

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Post by tehbeard » Thu, Jun 24, 2021, 4:42 PM UTC

_9omd wrote: post #10

kadomony wrote: post #7

I mean.. The taskbar seems like a Dock now. The interface seems very Apple Finder-esque now. I feel like they're just aligning with macOS now. Not that I'm complaining, the video and the interface all are sexy.

Yeah, it looks like they finally just threw the towel in and admitted that macOS has had a superior design aesthetic, and started heading in the same direction.

In what way is it superior? Shinier?

Re: Introducing Windows 11

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Post by nszceta » Thu, Jun 24, 2021, 4:42 PM UTC

tehbeard wrote: post #21

haolez wrote: post #12

Windows nowadays feels like a carefully crafted piece of software built by brilliant engineering and UX teams that, just before release, gets crapped all over by ads teams with annoyances and dark patterns. It must be frustrating to work in the former.

Idk, it feels like the UX team has been hitting the whiskey, and the UI team slapped something together to squeeze out a pay rise. And then the ads team garnishes that with terribleness. And now, the teams team wants to make it worse.

Cue the Ballmer Peak XKCD with Windows 11 replacing Windows ME https://xkcd.com/323/