Stealing all the advanced window management features from the Linux DE world... say repeatedly that no other OS does it.
Stay classy MS.
Microsoft announces Windows 11
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Re: Microsoft announces Windows 11
#72Now 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. The…
>Windows is a bloated nuisance OS that only stays around because of legacy software and DirectX
The reason it stays around is because of it's entrenched market share at very large enterprises. Until there is a replacement for managing huge numbers of end user devices centrally that is as easy or easier then Active Directory that won't change.
Re: Microsoft announces Windows 11
#73Now 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. The…
I think Teams integration is more of an acknowledgement that video-calling and workplace collaboration is a default usecase for desktop computing (like email, calendar, calculator, text editing).
>They are making claims about it being more performant, but that's hard to imagine when considering their promises for backwards compatibility.
I can run Windows 95 programs on Windows 10, not sure where the knock is coming from on backwards compatibility.
>Here comes another UI overhaul instead of simply fixing the trash menus
From the leaked ISO, the menus are much improved and overhauled. Sure, I want a modern tabbed File Explorer too, but it's clearly being worked on.
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#74> " 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.
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#75> " 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.
If you can even uninstall it. That's honestly my biggest gripe about Windows besides the fact it's proprietary is all of the stupid shit it comes bundled with that you will never use and can't remove.
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#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
Did something change? (Windows users/developers have always been able to use various distribution systems... likewise for macOS.
I might be wrong (not a developer), but I thought within the official stores, in-app purchases were subject to 30%, as standard, going to the platform provider. At least that's what I understand with regard to Apple and Google stores.
You can install software on Windows and MacOS outside of the app stores jfyi
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#77Anyone 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.
> 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.
Money is the answer. It hurts sales prospects when you say it's the last version ever.
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#78One thing that stood out to me as missing, was a file explorer demo. Have they just given up on revamping that?
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#79So taskbar extends horizontally and places icons in the middle, which means: 1. It creates unnecessary visual clutter in the right and left sides and takes up valuable space. 2. Users will have harder time clicking to start button. I’m having hard time seeing what is UX benefit of this?
Why does MacOS do it?
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#80I work at a company where the majority of the employees complain about every new version of Windows, some rather aggressively. They resist adoption until the last possible minute. Then when they upgrade, what do they do? — continue to use Windows to make cool stuff so our company continues to grow and, in reality, persist with the same exact workflow they had the week before... it just looks a little different. Then the complaints die off, and, well, on to other things....
Until the next version of Windows is announced.