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It's truly amazing how Microsoft insists on making Windows worse with each release. It makes me miss the old odd/even releases where at least half of them weren't bad.
Windows will never again reach the pinnacle that was Windows 7. Win 7 was familiar, stable, powerful just get things done OS. RIP.
It's truly amazing how Microsoft insists on making Windows worse with each release. It makes me miss the old odd/even releases where at least half of them weren't bad.
The MS employees who “get” it and actually use stock Windows themselves stopped being in charge. See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30019307 .
...which explains the disturbing similarity between macOS 13's System Settings and the same in Windows 11.
Microsoft did a tremendous amount of hard work to convince me to make the effort to migrate away from Windows at home and at work. They want to lease me a word processor. They want to put ads in my digital filing cabinet. They want to take 30% of my software revenue, and when they realized they couldn't have it, they said they'd settle for 12%. No dice. There are zero Windows machines in my home or in my business rig…
I doubt Microsoft cares that you migrated away.
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I think it do ask you whether you want to change the setting, except the default is nuking all your settings. And something even more annoying is: That pops up in the OOBE of every major update. If you accidentally click "yes", your settings fxxks up. Come on, I already click "no" last time, you shouldn't even ask me again about this.
My favorite part about this "helpful" prompt is that "no" is tiny text at the corner of the screen, and the yes-please-change-all-my-defaults button is a giant "ok". This kind of behavior should be illegal, IMO.
...or as I like to call it whenever I run into one, "where's the 'Fuck Off!' button?"
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Not only do they not care, they don't know I exist. That doesn't mean I have to tolerate their behavior. Their empire crumbles anyway, that's why they're doing this to Windows, because they know the future is (sadly) on the web, and the OS is less relevant than the browser now, and more replaceable than it was 20 years ago.
No one said you had to tolerate it lol. They just said it's not really relevant to the discussion. Microsoft's empire is not crumbling.
Now, I know Microsoft is a near-2-trillion-dollar company, but they would not be the first company to have realized the folly of resting on their laurels.
Microsoft's future over the 20 year term doesn't look as rosy as it could. They'll remain a huge company, but perhaps they'll slip back into the hundreds-of-billions-of-dollars segment instead of the trillion-dollar-titan segment if the investments they're making don't pay off.
They'll have huge income for decades because it's costly and time-consuming to move away from existing systems, but for new companies, Microsoft is no longer a given.
It's truly amazing how Microsoft insists on making Windows worse with each release. It makes me miss the old odd/even releases where at least half of them weren't bad.
Windows will never again reach the pinnacle that was Windows 7. Win 7 was familiar, stable, powerful just get things done OS. RIP.
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Windows advertising features were bugging me, so I tried to install MacOS on my computer, but Apple told me that I would have to purchase different hardware from them directly if I wanted to run their software. Seems like MacOS does not run on hardware that is not sold by Apple.
It does; just not out of the box. They only include drivers for their hardware; You have to compile your own kexts. The EULA, however, does “prevent” you from doing such a thing, but unless you’re selling “Hackintoshes”, Apple isn’t going to care.
Last week I allowed it to "upgrade" to Win 11 22H2. Part of the upgrade involved silently resetting a heap of my default apps. When the upgrade was done, Firefox was no longer my default browser, it was changed to Edge. Also, the default apps for PDF, JPG, PNG, TXT, MKV, and probably others that I haven't yet discovered, were set to their MS equivalent apps. Microsoft, this was not a nice thing to do to a user.
I've never had that happen to me in 20+ years of using and updating Windows. I suspected it's an urban legend but when a friend told me they experienced it with a feature update in Windows 11 I inquired further: It turns out during the first startup after a feature update in Windows 11 (and 10) they sometimes show a bunch of new prompts, one of which is a very vague text with a big (default) "Recommended Settings" an…
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Microsoft tried that explanation before. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-21684329 > It introduced a Browser Choice Screen pop-up in March 2010 as part of a settlement following an earlier EU competition investigation. > But the US company dropped the feature in a Windows 7 update in February 2011. > Microsoft said the omission had been the result of a "technical error". > Microsoft has been fined 561m euros ($731…
>Hard drive had over 1 800 000 GB of free space 1800 Tb free? No wonder you were mad.
Sadly I cannot edit it anymore, so this typo will remain.
It was only 1 800 GB of free space
After years of thinking "wsl2 is enough for me", I switched to fedora as an experiment and I have not looked back once.
I tried this with Ubuntu a few years ago. Once I had to deal with hidpi issues and screen tearing while scrolling in Firefox, I went back.