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I am happy on Mac, but MS should just ship WinXP with service pack 4 and 5 and then charge money for it. Backport whatever backend tech is needed and sell it as an ultra performance version of windows.
1: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/153379/how-do-you-...
The designers of the "settings" screens in Windows should be utterly embarrassed. They are pathetically useless, especially when compared to their predecessors apps like the MMC.
They also take disturbingly long to load, and every interaction is noticeably delayed. At least in Win10 you can compare how long they take, since it has both. I don't think I've ever had to wait for Control Panel to load on every version of Windows prior to 10, but Settings needs a loading screen . The responsible monstrosity is none other than UWP, which also added a loading screen to the Calculator.
Now that Edge is Chromium based, it's just like using Chrome minus all the tracking and data-mining...
I'm curious if this really helps them retain a measurable number of users. Basically, Edge is as good as Chrome (each has minor improvements/features that are not present in the other one), so I don't see that the average user would want to change it without a good reason. The only reason for change would be if they want to take advantage of Chrome sync to their existing profile, or use Chromecast, in which case I do…
I'm curious if this really helps them retain a measurable number of users. Basically, Edge is as good as Chrome (each has minor improvements/features that are not present in the other one), so I don't see that the average user would want to change it without a good reason. The only reason for change would be if they want to take advantage of Chrome sync to their existing profile, or use Chromecast, in which case I do…
Windows 7 with Media Center was the best Windows. All went downhill from there. I just wish that somehow Microsoft messed up so badly that Windows for desktop goes the way of Windows Mobile. What's that, you ask? Exactly.
Microsoft need to be sued again so they resume making a good windows version again. When I was on Win8 I was hoping Win10 would make me want to get rid of it. Instead it made me want to go back to Win7 (or rather, go Win7 for the first time, I skipped straight from XP to Win8) Now I am "stuck" on Win7 hoping Win11 will fix Win10 issues but... MS seemly is dead set on making them WORSE instead.
According to Microsoft best $731m ever spend.
How do the product managers and engineers who implement these blatantly user-hostile changes justify them?
- being subscribed to Office 365,
- having Bing as my default search engine
- having Edge as my default browser.
Needless to say, I find this an abuse of the Settings app.
I'm curious if this really helps them retain a measurable number of users. Basically, Edge is as good as Chrome (each has minor improvements/features that are not present in the other one), so I don't see that the average user would want to change it without a good reason. The only reason for change would be if they want to take advantage of Chrome sync to their existing profile, or use Chromecast, in which case I do…