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not everyone that deals with sensible data has IT education beyond windows and office, and you can't demand every bank clerk and hospital receptionist in the world use arch Linux for safety reasons.
On the other hand, these click bait articles in the main UI are timesinks that could reduce productivity in a company
Windows is my daily driver. I actually like the OS but Microsoft would do well to listen to these concerns being raised consistently. They need to ask some deep questions of themselves of what they want Windows to be. This reminds me of the days where Ballmers goal seemed to be to lock everyone into Windows and MS products when the real upside turned out to be “make MS products fully available where people already ar…
At some point MS decided their main rival is Google not Apple. Perhaps they're right. I'm not a MS user other than occasionally when work requires it, haven't really been for many many years. But looking at their stock and profit, I can't say they are doing badly at all. At some point, especially when your focus is the consumer market, you're not going to be so scrupulous with certain choices where the trade-off is p…
Now they just focus hard on offering software for people who pays and ads for people who doesn't. They can't just dictate the technology trends and styles like before (Metro lost space to Material, so they can't even influence the look & feel of computers like before).
One of the few parts where Microsoft is still focusing on being cutting edge and force their proprietary ecosystem is XBox. They're still trying to be unique and stand out against Sony and Nintendo
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> There's been a long observed tradition that every other version of Windows is trash. 3.1, 98, XP, 7, 10 were good^, 95, ME, Vista, 8 and now 11 are trash. What about Windows 2000?
Windows 2000 wasn't a consumer version of Windows, so gets left out. edit: pity, because I think all-in-all it's one of the best versions of Windows I ever used. Very fast, no junk to get in the way, tremendously clear UI, very compatible with games (even weird ones developed for Win9x), etc. I used it over Windows XP for as long as I could!
But it worked damn well as one.
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Except those numbers are…wrong? I mean, they’re not far off, but they’re not actually right either. You should probably never trust ChatGPT outright with facts. From the horse’s mouth, https://www.microsoft.com/investor/reports/ar21/index.html : Productivity and Business Processes: 53.9B (not 53.7) Intelligent Cloud: 60.1B (not 58.4) More Personal Computing: 54.1B (not 53.6)
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At some point MS decided their main rival is Google not Apple. Perhaps they're right. I'm not a MS user other than occasionally when work requires it, haven't really been for many many years. But looking at their stock and profit, I can't say they are doing badly at all. At some point, especially when your focus is the consumer market, you're not going to be so scrupulous with certain choices where the trade-off is p…
They took that decision after windows 8 and all the push for windows phones failed to compete with android and iOS. Now they just focus hard on offering software for people who pays and ads for people who doesn't. They can't just dictate the technology trends and styles like before (Metro lost space to Material, so they can't even influence the look & feel of computers like before). One of the few parts where Microso…
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A classic mistake Apple has avoided. The Mac is not numerically their big platform but it’s key to their ecosystem so they have not abandoned it. Also Azure sucks compared to most other cloud providers so that’s not a basket I would put all my eggs in.
Aren't Apple starting to roll out more ads in various places?
- banner ads inside of the Apple News app. Similar to what other news sites include but fewer ads.
- App Store home page - at least some of the apps featured there are paid placements.
- pay for placement listings on the App Store. When you do a search, the first result or two is a paid listing.
- App Store app page with "you might also like" lists at the bottom of the page.
While piling on windows 11, I love (sarcastically) that you cannot give feedback about windows 11 without the feedback hub, even if your installation of windows 11 is completely trashed by a botched recovery.
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Is there a standalone installer for this so you can run items not on Steam? I have many old Windows games you see, with DVDs.
I would try the program 'bottles' via flatpak. Really easy to use and has run all my non-steam games flawlessly.