Except it will be the same old windows disguised.
Exactly, just more lipstick on a pig. They never seem to fully commit to anything.
Microsoft announces Windows 11
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#42So the first tweak would be something like:
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#43Now is the time to abandon Windows.
I don't know what can replace it right now, for non-technical users, but the market is ready for an OS that isn't tied to hardware (MacOS) and doesn't require as much expertise or effort as Linux variants (especially when running specific software).
Microsoft is here with Windows 11, integrating teams into the OS, because they want to shill it, not because it's what users want. They are making claims about it being more performant, but that's hard to imagine when considering their promises for backwards compatibility.
Windows is a bloated nuisance OS that only stays around because of legacy software and DirectX. The folks at Microsoft who work on Windows have demonstrated for decades now that they care more about implementing new features than they care about user experience, consistency, and reliability. Here comes another UI overhaul instead of simply fixing the trash menus and numerous other problems the OS has. Why?
It's time to move on from Windows.
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#44We fired shots at BlueStacks and Zoom. Rejoice with us.
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#45I would really like to know if there's anything positive besides UI and up-to-date security this brings to a user's table compared to Windows 7.
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#46> " 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.
Will uninstalling be an option? They say it's integrated, so that seems unlikely.
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#47Putting 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?
My hunch is that it's a controversial change made for no purpose other than to deliberately get people talking about W11.
It's easy to 'fix' via preferences so serves no other purpose.
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#4824 years ago my company moved from mac to windows (granted macs would crash every 20 minutes). At the time we were given a windows laptop to try for a bit, with the rollout a month or so later. When I went to shut it down I asked how to... 'press start', I was told. I thought 'nope, they still don't get it... pressing start to stop... send it back to them and tell them to try again and harder'. Its still true.
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#49I honestly was expecting more "innovation", more daring decisions and deep convictions that "this new way", even though it might get some backlash, will prove to improve the wellbeing of it's users, even if they don't know it yet.
I haven't seen anything like that since the days of Steven Jobs and it kind of saddens me. Have we reached a plateau in tech? Are we just up for making more of the same, just a little different, as long as we can get VC or increase the stock price? Are there no more Wright Brothers? Alex G. Bell? Elon Musk for more industries?
Sorry for the sad comment, but this release just disappointed me. Idk what I was expecting, but it wasn't just another Windows...
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#50I am looking forward to performance improvements. It would be great if the core window services were optimized to use less resources to improve the windows experience on less impressive hardware.