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Microsoft accidentally revealed a UI design prototype for the next Windows

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Re: Microsoft accidentally revealed a UI design prototype for the next Windows

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Post by pjerem »

piersj225 wrote: post #21

Is this a good time to ask if anyone has some good reasons to upgrade to windows 11? ( other than getting security updates past 2025) - I would love to hear them :)

The new tiling window management, when it works, is a nice tiling WM for non-nerds.

Everything else is worse. I cannot see any other change from W10 that is not a downgrade, when it's not outright features or settings that disappear totally for reasons.

They managed to make the start menu even worse than the W10 one which was already utmost garbage inherited from 8.

At this point I’m even questioning wether they became mad of if they just want to insult users.

Re: Microsoft accidentally revealed a UI design prototype for the next Windows

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Post by fooofw »

Jorengarenar wrote: post #29
tgv wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You write it as a joke, but I recently got myself a PC with Win11Pro. First glance: brand new UI. Until you open some specific settings, or choose "more options" from a context menu, then it's Windows 10. Then you need to tweak something else, and it's suddenly it's Windows XP. And when you go to something in the device/hardware area, you're confronted with a dialog that hasn't changed since NT.

I watched a video of somebody removing Program Files and related folders until the system stop working. At some point Win11 reverted itself into Win10

Maybe this one: https://youtube.com/watch?v=BVIN_PJu2rs

Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33954176

Re: Microsoft accidentally revealed a UI design prototype for the next Windows

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Post by rightbyte »

piersj225 wrote: post #21

Is this a good time to ask if anyone has some good reasons to upgrade to windows 11? ( other than getting security updates past 2025) - I would love to hear them :)

Getting new forced updates is one of the greatest drawbacks of Win11 compared to say Win7.

Security is just the excuse to push user hostile feutures down our throats by remote code execution from MS servers.

Re: Microsoft accidentally revealed a UI design prototype for the next Windows

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Post by PenguinCoder »

rightbyte wrote: post #53
piersj225 wrote: post #21

Is this a good time to ask if anyone has some good reasons to upgrade to windows 11? ( other than getting security updates past 2025) - I would love to hear them :)

Getting new forced updates is one of the greatest drawbacks of Win11 compared to say Win7. Security is just the excuse to push user hostile feutures down our throats by remote code execution from MS servers.

Windows 7 was peak Windows. Sane enough defaults, power user settings still accessible _and respected_, didn't have ads or run electron everything. If MS would've stopped fucking changing everything, but increasing security instead, it would still be king and not losing market share. Instead we have this Win 11 bullshit, forced down your throat everything, because MS knows better than YOU. While it continues to be bloated and doesn't do what you want or actually need.

Re: Microsoft accidentally revealed a UI design prototype for the next Windows

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Post by jiggawatts »

Ahh… the new Notepad.

It used to be a ~60kb executable that worked even on open files, enormous log files, or on servers on their last legs due to memory exhaustion.

The new version takes a solid second to start up, can’t open a one gigabyte text file in under a minute, and can’t even align tabs and spaces despite using a fixed-width font.

It’s the simplest text editor that is so slow that its menus visibly stutter and lag if you simply move your mouse.

If Gates was still in charge he’d have summarily fired that entire team.

If you want nice things, you can’t have nice people in charge.

Re: Microsoft accidentally revealed a UI design prototype for the next Windows

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Post by unixbotnuke »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #30
thesuperbigfrog wrote: post #6

"We want it to look like MacOS, but without any consistency and keeping some system components that were written for Windows XP, but we haven't bothered to update yet." "It will require the lastest processors and 32 GB of RAM because OEMs need to sell computers and all of the windows components are using Electron (or similar memory-hungry web UIs)." "Teams and Loop will be fully integrated to enable maximum synergy f…

I found myself buying a computer this holiday season and spending over a thousand dollars on it. Then realized Windows 11 isnt the Pro version, anyway I went to add a new Windows User and the app told me to go to another app because its not supported from there in my edition of Windows, when I got to the other app, it said to go back to the first app. I literally just said screw it and installed POP OS. Steam runs al…

Yes this is annoying. Ideally my computer should just do what I want it to, and not gaslight me into whatever metrics Microsoft program managers are optimizing for to get their bonuses…as in selling more OneDrive or Xbox live subscriptions.

Re: Microsoft accidentally revealed a UI design prototype for the next Windows

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Post by kyleee »

PenguinCoder wrote: post #54
rightbyte wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Getting new forced updates is one of the greatest drawbacks of Win11 compared to say Win7. Security is just the excuse to push user hostile feutures down our throats by remote code execution from MS servers.

Windows 7 was peak Windows. Sane enough defaults, power user settings still accessible _and respected_, didn't have ads or run electron everything. If MS would've stopped fucking changing everything, but increasing security instead, it would still be king and not losing market share. Instead we have this Win 11 bullshit, forced down your throat everything, because MS knows better than YOU. While it continues to be bl…

I also came to quite like the aero UI. Indeed Win 7 was a delight

Re: Microsoft accidentally revealed a UI design prototype for the next Windows

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Post by pcurve »

vsskanth wrote: post #11

They can change it to whatever as long as it's fully consistent and doesn't have menus from Windows 95. At this point I don't even know if it's possible.

I thought Windows 95 menu bar was quite functional once you got used to it.

https://regmedia.co.uk/2015/08/24/win95start_648.jpg

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