Microsoft’s new Windows prompts try to stop people downloading Chrome

Post by dustinmoris » Thu, Dec 02, 2021, 7:04 PM UTC

avalys wrote: post #257

dustinmoris wrote: post #216

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> macOs.... doesn't run most programs people need (because the business world is still Windows oriented) This is not only not true for many years anymore, it's even got so far that it's almost the opposite now. Most successful businesses nowadays are increasingly led by tech-savvy leaders, because otherwise they wouldn't be successful anymore, and those people make their own software now increasingly better on macOS…

You seem to have ignored the entire class of businesses that don’t “make their own software” at all.

Post by sixothree » Thu, Dec 02, 2021, 7:08 PM UTC

nojito wrote: post #35

0x_rs wrote: post #30

I heard some people having a decent time with Edge in the past with some features implementations. Not that I would use it myself, but I'm firmly convinced these childish plays only ruin whatever good work was done on it. Who on Earth would continue using a browser that has such hostile behavior and dark patterns all over the place e.g., buy-now-pay-later at browser level? It's so hard to trust Microsoft anyway, I'm…

How is this any different than what google does in google app?

Post by sixothree » Thu, Dec 02, 2021, 7:17 PM UTC

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loudtieblahblah wrote: post #88

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i look at advancements like this in Windows and think it's really cool. But after spending so many years, especially in the late 90s and early 2000s, getting shit from a bunch of khaki wearing, corporate butt kissing MSCE types about how Linux is "get what you pay for" and constantly mocking that all this "free software can't do anything" and then sitting back and watching Linux empowering cloud computing, Unix/Linux…

> " watching Microsoft do things like making Notepad use Unix EOL characters " A system which still pretends you're talking through a teletype, a system where it would make sense to use both CR and LF together and individually to move the cursor accross or down or both, shuns it. Windows never did mandate it, applications can use any line ending they like, but used it as a convention for backwards compatability with…

Post by sixothree » Thu, Dec 02, 2021, 7:19 PM UTC

loudtieblahblah wrote: post #133

Quarrelsome wrote: post #116

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Great post until: > But F* windows and F* windows people in IT. The whole lot of em Maybe leave the late 90s.

maybe Windows guys should. "look at all this cool stuff Windows can do, that the stuff i was mocking could do 20 years ago". The way Windows people talk about all the "revolutionary" stuff Windows can do, like just piss off. This is like the jocks bullying kids for wearing Metallica shirts or NIN shirts freshman year only to act like the biggest fans 2-3 years later. It's like Star Trek fans getting mocked for decade…

Post by wongarsu » Thu, Dec 02, 2021, 7:22 PM UTC

FredPret wrote: post #307

mc32 wrote: post #49

Microsoft has had a good few years of building up their reputation after their self inflicted blemishes from the IE integration fiasco as well as their EEE mode of operation. Now they are throwing away their good will with smarmy tactics --why? for some short term gains? They were passing Google reputation-wise, of late, but these moves undercut their work of the last few years. It seems they see Google, FB, even App…

I noticed the same thing. However, I trust MS less now than in the 90’s. Back then, I felt like the owner of my machine. Sure they had bad things like IE but I could just ignore it. Now, it restarts itself and installs updates despite me specifically trying to stop it. It’s a shame really because I really enjoyed Win 10 and even Bing doesn’t suck completely. Thank goodness for competition and the new M1 laptops! Now…