Switching from Microsoft Edge gets more annoying in Windows 11

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Post by zenbob » Wed, Aug 18, 2021, 6:14 PM UTC

Switching from Microsoft Edge gets more annoying in Windows 11
arstechnica.com

Re: Switching from Microsoft Edge gets more annoying in Windows 11

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Post by gundmc » Wed, Aug 18, 2021, 7:02 PM UTC

How do the product managers and engineers who implement these blatantly user-hostile changes justify them?

Re: Switching from Microsoft Edge gets more annoying in Windows 11

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Post by TrinaryWorksToo » Wed, Aug 18, 2021, 7:09 PM UTC

gundmc wrote: post #2

How do the product managers and engineers who implement these blatantly user-hostile changes justify them?

Good lobbyists in the FTC.

Re: Switching from Microsoft Edge gets more annoying in Windows 11

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Post by cool_dude85 » Wed, Aug 18, 2021, 7:10 PM UTC

gundmc wrote: post #2

How do the product managers and engineers who implement these blatantly user-hostile changes justify them?

The user isn't their boss, a boss at Microsoft is. Who do they need to justify the changes to?

Re: Switching from Microsoft Edge gets more annoying in Windows 11

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Post by speeder » Wed, Aug 18, 2021, 7:12 PM UTC

Microsoft need to be sued again so they resume making a good windows version again.

When I was on Win8 I was hoping Win10 would make me want to get rid of it. Instead it made me want to go back to Win7 (or rather, go Win7 for the first time, I skipped straight from XP to Win8)

Now I am "stuck" on Win7 hoping Win11 will fix Win10 issues but... MS seemly is dead set on making them WORSE instead.

Re: Switching from Microsoft Edge gets more annoying in Windows 11

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Post by Jenk » Wed, Aug 18, 2021, 7:20 PM UTC

The designers of the "settings" screens in Windows should be utterly embarrassed. They are pathetically useless, especially when compared to their predecessors apps like the MMC.

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Post by tored » Wed, Aug 18, 2021, 7:22 PM UTC

gundmc wrote: post #2

How do the product managers and engineers who implement these blatantly user-hostile changes justify them?

We are back to the bouncer economy, just like when bouncers are chasing you with free entrance tickets to the nightclub for a "few" drinks (salty "free lunch" at the saloon in the old days), browser vendors are chasing you with free browsers to hook you up for some good ol' data mining.

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Post by bserge » Wed, Aug 18, 2021, 7:26 PM UTC

Windows 7 with Media Center was the best Windows. All went downhill from there.

I just wish that somehow Microsoft messed up so badly that Windows for desktop goes the way of Windows Mobile. What's that, you ask? Exactly.

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Post by bydo » Wed, Aug 18, 2021, 7:27 PM UTC

Jenk wrote: post #6

The designers of the "settings" screens in Windows should be utterly embarrassed. They are pathetically useless, especially when compared to their predecessors apps like the MMC.

I really love the ones that redirect you from the Control Panel to Settings, but then are somehow still missing the old functionality, so it then bounces you back to the Control Panel.

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Post by pitched » Wed, Aug 18, 2021, 7:37 PM UTC

I couldn’t buy the Xbox Game Pass in either Edge or their stand-alone client. I had to switch to Chrome before I could get through the process. I think it was something about billing address not updating country settings correctly but was too annoyed at the time to dig in any deeper.