I think an interesting thing mentioned at the end about the Microsoft Store is that if developers use their own "commerce engine" they keep 100% of the profits.
Microsoft announces Windows 11
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#32Anyone has a good guess why Microsoft needed to bump the version? All of these updates seems something that can be easily updated to Windows 10 in several or one half year update. Is this something related to it's corporate clients or licensing services? Really can't understand why a need to create a new version with so much hype, when they've announced in the past that W10 will be the last Windows version.
Marketing noise and kicks off a sales frenzy for enterprise customers :)
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#33Can't we just go back to Windows 7 UI and UX with modern Windows 10 feature and security enhancements?
W7 was the only MS product I ever paid money for (as a student), and feel like it was a great deal.
Would gladly keep paying for security enhancements for it and don't really see anything that W10 (or W11 for that matter) offers over it for work or gaming.
It's a real shame that taking away controls from power users seem to be more important than providing a great product. But I guess when you're a monopoly you can do whatever you want.
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#34Developers can use their own payment systems, and MS take nothing. That's a bit of a kick in the teeth to Apple.
Absolutely. Microsoft doesn't have a large existing Windows Store business to protect, so why not make Apple's life harder?
I think it's also the solution that best meets the reality of apps in 2021. Big third-party devs like Netflix and Amazon will opt out of in-app purchase entirely before giving a cut to the platform owner. May as well let them use their own payment system so users get a better experience than signing up on the web.
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#35> " Microsoft is also integrating Microsoft Teams directly into Windows 11, for both consumers and commercial users. " Not that I have any objections to Teams per se but attempting to drive adoption by bundling got Microsoft in trouble in the IE era; didn't they learn their lesson? Either way, probably the first thing I'll be doing after a fresh install of Windows 11 is uninstalling Teams.
I'm sure they will gladly accept a billion dollar fine for their video chat service to be dominant.
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#36Wow, Windows just keeps getting worse. Anyone know who’s responsible for the Mac OS inspired start menu? Presumably it’s an easy to change default, but why exactly copy such a user hostile layout.
I do. It was Microsoft.
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#37Putting the start menu button in the middle of the panel rather than at a corner seems to forget Fitts' Law. Is this a push to make people use hotkeys more or just bad design?
While it is a totally legit point, the macOS dock hasn't been corner aligned since OS X 10.0 too and it seems people got used to it. Probably not a big deal after all most of the time.
I would argue that the difference is that there isn't a one most important button in the dock like the Start button. Even if the dock was corner aligned it would only make it easier to select either the Finder or Trash icon depending on which corner it was in.
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#38Not a fan of the Android apps installable and discoverable onto Windows...but through the Amazon appstore. Weird, and I'd much more prefer installing to PC from Google Play itself.
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#39I have my taskbar vertical on the left of my screen - so that will be interesting in Windows 11
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#40Developers can use their own payment systems, and MS take nothing. That's a bit of a kick in the teeth to Apple.
Did something change?
(Windows users/developers have always been able to use various distribution systems... likewise for macOS.