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Introducing Windows 11
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#142Apparently the Home edition will require a Microsoft account and an internet connection. [1] Can't say I'm looking forward to this. All my Windows installations are with local accounts and I would like to keep it that way. Microsoft has already made it incredibly obnoxious to achieve this with the latest Windows 10 setups, where you have to make sure your computer is not connected to the internet to even unlock the f…
I don't like that they make it mandatory, but I understand why they want to push users to using MS accounts. When I set up a PC (Android phone) for non-technical users I always make sure they have a MS (Google) account.
Things like backup and password reset are just so convenient that they outweigh the very theoretical privacy risk for most people.
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#143Earlier quoted context omitted.
How many people bought Windows 10 thinking they wouldn't need to buy another one? Class-action lawsuit incoming?
It's a free update according to the article
Maybe not for everybody
From the MS website
Minimum system requirements:
Trusted Platform Module (TPM) version 2.0
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#144So, almost all the new “features” are about forcing Microsoft services onto users, really cool.
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#145> 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
Well, they did try to merge the web browser with the desktop (and, I as far as I remember, got sued for that).
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#146I 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.
Probably more a return to form than anything. I seem to recall reading a book about the early (v 1.0 - 3.11) history of Windows where a developer recounted Bill Gates looking at early builds and asking if they could make it look more like Mac. Wish I could remember the title because that's going to gnaw at me for the rest of the day.
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#147Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Getting my mouse bottom left is more natural There's a name for that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitts%27s_law and the fact that their UI people somehow have forgotten about it speaks volumes.
I don’t think Fitt’s takes into account the “end of screen” concept, though? I guess it makes the width of the element infinite in some regards.
Yep, "magic corners" are considered infinite size in terms of Fitts's law, though with larger and larger screens it still takes time to get there.
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#148> We’re also announcing a progressive change to our revenue share policies where app developers can now bring their own commerce into our Store and keep 100% of the revenue – Microsoft takes nothing. Nicely done!
One would have to be incredibly naive to fall for that.
They're just going to bring that fee back later when/if people actually start using their store. Windows has a lot of problems, but as of yet the world has been fortunate enough to avoid it becoming another walled garden.
Actually using their store, either as a developer or consumer, is a sure-fire way to fuck that up for everyone.
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#149My Primary concern with Windows 11 can be described as follows: 98 - ME XP - Vista 7 - 8 10 - 11 Has Microsoft broken the cycle? Time will tell.
Honestly, I find this to be a lazy trope. MS has certainly laid some eggs before, but the "every other version sucks" narrative relies a lot on revisionist thinking. Vista was a resource hog on the hardware of the time, but the UI was honestly a huge improvement and a lot of the complaining about Vista centered around security improvements the _ABSOLUTELY_ needed to happen. I suspect plenty of HN readers have memorie…
I'm speaking specifically of initial releases. I recall working on a Vista SP2 machine that I honestly thought was Windows 7 until I looked closer. And 8.1 wasn't too bad. But Vista at release was just awful. It created as many problems as it solved, as did 8.
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#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
Also the search indexer.
I don't understand how the search indexer consumes so much resources, I was able to make something faster by following the ntfs journal and just keeping a full listing of files in sqlite.
Isn't it also opening each file, to extract text, EXIF data, etc?