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Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11

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Re: Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11

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Microsoft lost its way much earlier than 4 years ago. It abused users at the time of Netscape wars and forcing Internet Explorer down people's throats.

But they hit an infinite gold mine with government adoption and for the last 30 years no amount of bad engineering was able to shake off government use.

Windows 11 is bad? Yes, but did you try Microsoft Teams? The only way to force Microsoft into "users matter" engineering is to get govvies off it. My 2c.

Re: Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11

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post #3

I think we need to be a bit more careful and considerate around the use of language around physical abuse, or abuse in general, and using software. Saying that here as someone that isn't fond of the Windows experience these days, but the two are not relatable.

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Re: Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11

#13
Pulling the emergency break promising to improve a situation will in general not build any trust unless the mea culpa also includes:

1. An analysis of what allowed the situation to get out of control to begin with

2. Systematic changes to prevent it from happening again

Otherwise you will just be in the same situation again in 3 years. And neither is included in Microsoft's messaging here.

Re: Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11

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post #5

Why are there so many "slop" animations in this article? They don't actually provide anything useful over the already explained text, and the "click to restart" is incredibly distracting.

Reading the article without Firefox's reader mode is a pain. Maybe it's a secret plan of Mozilla to promote their browser.

Re: Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11

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post #6

These flowers smell like shit. If you don't use Linux or MacOS yet, why?

Macs are too expensive for the same performance/ram, and Linux still can't run proper creative software.

> Macs are too expensive for the same performance/ram

This hasn't been true for at least a decade. And it's especially not true for the M* series Macs.

Even Macbook Neo can handle editing several layers of 4k video files in several apps while running everything else https://youtu.be/Mo6o8RKn7jE?is=opeCYMDbt7bUAdvS Try that on "the same performance/ram" Windows Machine

Re: Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11

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post #6

These flowers smell like shit. If you don't use Linux or MacOS yet, why?

Macs are too expensive for the same performance/ram, and Linux still can't run proper creative software.

"Most companies still do not publish Linux builds for creative software"

There, fixed it for you.

It's not like Linux is the blocker here.

Re: Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11

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post #3

I think we need to be a bit more careful and considerate around the use of language around physical abuse, or abuse in general, and using software. Saying that here as someone that isn't fond of the Windows experience these days, but the two are not relatable.

Beating is a normal English idiom. While I do sympathize with anyone suffering from abuse, I highly doubt anyone is actually suffering from use of the word.

I'm willing to be wrong, but it's specifically mentioned as an analogy for abuse in the article itself.

Not trying to turn everything "woke", but phrasing of scenarios around this just takes away from the severity of what actual abuse is.

Re: Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11

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post #7

It’s quite common for companies to work their way up to the line of the most user hostile version of their product that users will tolerate. Especially with software where they can just go flip a switch and turn off whatever feature did cross the line but keep everything they gained by inching up to the line, which seems to inevitably result in things like the condition of windows 11. I think the only way this gets b…

The other thing is availability of alternatives.

Most standard users simply dont have an option. Mac Neo brought Apple into a lower price range, but requires a new device. Linux is there (and frankly fantastic at this point) but good luck getting the average person through the setup process.

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