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Re: Misbehaving Microsoft Teams ad brings down the entire Windows 11 desktop

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Post by fctorial » Thu, Sep 09, 2021, 3:45 AM UTC

hulitu wrote: post #195

flutterwascrap wrote: post #145

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Haven't happened to me on my desktop. Maybe try updating? File a bug report? The start menu web search is actually really good for quickly searching for things.

> Haven't happened to me on my desktop. Maybe try updating? File a bug report? You funny. Have you ever encounted a Win 10 bug ? Did you find any fix ? For example: mouse clicks extra when the mouse button is pressed (drag) or double clicks when you single click. Or Title bar and menubar/ribbon dissapears in multimonitor environment.

Never encountered any of these, but there was a bug in the taskbar search box. I reported it and it stopped happening (I forgot to disable automatic updates)

Re: Misbehaving Microsoft Teams ad brings down the entire Windows 11 desktop

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Post by Saris » Thu, Sep 09, 2021, 1:41 PM UTC

hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #35

To clarify, though, this is just an issue for people who are deliberately getting preview builds (aka beta testers), correct? The article feels pretty click-baity with that critical detail not part of the title.

It is yes, but it shows deeper issues where the way they're designing the OS allows things that don't matter at all to break core systems.

Re: Misbehaving Microsoft Teams ad brings down the entire Windows 11 desktop

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Post by Jorengarenar » Thu, Sep 09, 2021, 4:10 PM UTC

marcodiego wrote: post #70

errantspark wrote: post #23

It's so mind boggling to me that we're okay with this level of uncertainty about the systems we rely on every day. I run LTSC with updates disabled because the idea that something that's working one day would stop working the next drives me up the wall. I have a linux phone (which is awful) because at least when that breaks it's my fault and I can always just put it back into a known working state. I hate how my rela…

> ... we're okay with this level of uncertainty about the systems we rely on every day. I'm not included in this "we". And I definitely pay a price for that by sacrificing some convenience. I'm sure the price would be lower if more people were willing to make the same sacrifices. I can understand most end users being okay with that. Most are not educated to know the problems or alternatives. But developers should con…

I, on the other hand, would need to sacrifice a lot of convenience to be included in this "we"

Re: Misbehaving Microsoft Teams ad brings down the entire Windows 11 desktop

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Post by joquarky » Fri, Sep 10, 2021, 3:10 PM UTC

BuyMyBitcoins wrote: post #101

userbinator wrote: post #84

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I really wish people would stop using the word "modern" in marketing rhetoric as if it was a good thing, because more often than not they're using it and other buzzwords because they don't have any better compelling reasons to convince you to use their product. No, I do not care that the newer version is more "modern", "stylish", "sleek", "clean", or any other number of useless buzzwordy adjectives. Tell me concretel…

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If you think Microsoft Bob was whimsical, hold on to your seat.

Re: Misbehaving Microsoft Teams ad brings down the entire Windows 11 desktop

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Post by joquarky » Fri, Sep 10, 2021, 3:38 PM UTC

nonbirithm wrote: post #78

meibo wrote: post #17

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It's such a shame too. Windows 10 is a great modern OS that everyone expected to last and be built upon, but they just had to go and push out a new "modernized" version and fill it up with ads. I wonder what you pay to be in the Windows 10 Pro start menu and if it's really worth selling out their professional userbase.

Perhaps there's a version of Moore's Law concerning the amount of innovation left at the OS level, and we're only starting to run out of it just now. What legitimately useful features can we expect out of the release of iOS five major versions down the line? Will there be any new features that change the status quo, and that we'd be practically unable to live without? The significant features like the app store and m…

There are a lot of simple usability changes that could still be added to Windows.

Off the top of my head, I'd like to be able to drag or minimize a parent window when it has a modal dialog open. This is especially frustrating when using an application that uses nested modals and you need to reference the grandparent window to fill in some information on the current modal.

They should buy the code for the file search utility named "Everything" and build that into the OS.

Also, the Amiga had multi-character drive names and path mappings/assignments in 1985. It was nice to type DOCS: or GAMES: into a file dialog to go directly to where I organized those resources. Sure, I could do this with single-letter drives but that requires me to remember what each letter maps to.