Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders

And the stunts they pulled to kill other IMs.

Or how they crippled the web for a decade due to killing competing browsers, building Windows lock-ins into IE (eg ActiveX controls), fragmenting Java, and then leaving IE to die themselves.

Or how they lied about Windows 98 requiring IE4.

Or how they didn’t give a crap about OS security until halfway through the life of XP. Leaving literally millions of people vulnerable to a plethora of different forms of attacks from malware to direct hacking on open Telnet ports.

Or how they tried to land grab IRC with their comic book GUI. Which, in fairness, was a novel app. But unfortunately it was another embrace, extend, extinguish play.

Or how they tried to kill ODF with their own faux-open document format: OOXML

Or their constant stream of FUD messaging about Linux being “communism”.

Yeah, MS were really noble in their goals to create a good OS. /s

It’s a pity they couldn’t even manage to do that well given every iteration of Windows has been bloated, buggy, and years behind the competition in terms of performance and capabilities. Windows was never a good OS.

In fact I’d go further and say Microsoft have never release a good OS. Even their versions of BASIC sucked compared to the competition.

Microsoft have always been good at negotiating with businesses. It’s why Azure is used in governments, why Windows is the “business platform”, and why 9x beat the competition in the 90s despite being consistently the worst in class for basically every metric you could think of.

Windows didn’t succeed because it was good. Microsoft succeeded because Bill Gates was ruthless!

So I think when either of us talk about it as if it’s universal we are both wrong.

So every time you make a claim, I’ll be there.

Your experience with Google, it’s mine with AWS.

macOS does the same thing. When I actually sleep, when my laptop's lid is closed. I wake up. My Mac wants a password instead of a fingerprint. It says it has updated the OS when I was snoring. What's the difference?

Every app, every window, everything is the way I left before closing the lid. My computer is updated, rebooted and ready for the day. Like nothing happened.

Linux is the same deal. If the desktop environment is upgraded a logout and login is necessary (and KDE restores session as well as macOS for the last decade, at least), and if I updated the kernel, I reboot. I'm back in 30 seconds, to the exact point that I left.

Only Windows takes 2 hours, 4 reboots, 3 blood sacrifices and countless frustration sounds to upgrade. While saturating the processor and the storage subsystem at the same time, which makes my computer create the same sounds of the said blood sacrifices.