Same song and dance since at least Windows me. Overtime it keeps getting more bloated and focused on advertising. If you got to use Windows at work, it is what it is but at home, get over it and switch to Linux already. It’s very clear that all the complaining of the world has little chance to ever get Windows to be what people want it to be
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good luck with that.
Hey Microslop use Cortana to replace your shit CEO and the whole C-Suite
Hey Satya, just give us Win10 back and fuck off, you bald fraud.
We have that. It's called Linux
I wonder if we're past the point of no return re: the trust thermocline: https://mastodon.social/@garius/109279394369832433
Fire your current dipshit in chief, issue abject apologies and realise you peaked with 7.
Good luck with that - you would need to scrap the entire operating system.
And a lot of leadership and investors
There was a theory that Microsoft could just release a Linux distro with a first party windows skin on it
Doubt
... genuinely, how can they possibly expect to regain or have any trust after turning W11 into a constant wiretap via Copilot, that spams ads all up in your OS in every place, and then also just handing over the bitlocker master keys to the FBI?
You would have to be very uninformed or delusional at this point to think that Windows and privacy/security exist in the same universe.
The only thing they have going for them is inertia.
And they're now hitting the point where backlash against them is snowballing much faster than they could possibly reverse course on their own internal inertia and actually make any real changes.
And yes that applies to their consumer facing shit as well as B2B.
Don't forget competition, Linux has been gaining market share year over year
Great, so windows 9 is going to come out?
I would genuinely laugh so fucking hard
Windows 8 .1 was effectively Windows 9.
See and this is why they are losing so much trust, even a child can tell you its 7, 8, 9, 10 and not 7, 8, 8.1, 10
lmao. microflop is outdated, dusty and crusty.
Already switched to Linux... super happy with it.
Are they though?
Too little, too fucking late!
If they would produce a super stable, backward compatible system without "AI", without tons of dark patterns and with a traditional UI... let's say, a Windows 7 reboot with compatibility to modern software and released under a Free license... then I would honestly take a look.
I wouldn't. Why would I bother at this point. Their commitment is to making money, not customers.
"super stable, backward compatible system without "AI"" Sounds like Linux 😁
Too late for me. But thanks for telling me my computer wasn't good enough for Win 11 and forcing me to install Linux. It was a breeze, and computing is fun again.
and computing is fun again.
I agree 100%. I've been trying to put my finger on why.
Maybe it's because using Linux doesn't feel adversarial?
Maybe it's because Tux Racer comes pre-installed with some distros and brings a whole vibe?
Maybe it's the software center that prominently displays a warning for anything that isn't completely free in either price or freedom?
The Linux Software Center feels like my happy memories of getting to spend $5.00 in a 10 cent candy shop.
Maybe it's because it is where many librarians, educators and free thinker gather, and their fingerprints are on everything?
Sorry for the random walk comment. I just keep thinking I should figure out the elevator pitch for why Linux feels more fun.
It should not be hard to browse local files on a computer.
Why are you using local files when you have a cloud???!
-Microsoft
Thanks. I think I just puked in my mouth.
"Everything will be a service. You will own nothing. You will accept this reality"
You will not just accept, you will embrace. You will feel cold and empty when you taste freedom, for you will not understand it or know what to do with it.
I mean, kind of. Not owning anything or being able to do what we want with our PCs will really free up a lot of time for other hobbies such as hunting billionaires for sport.
Too late, for me at least
Yah, that's bullshit. They hate their users and want them dead but buying things somehow.
Make it less shit dumbass
Fuck 'em
Could've fooled me...
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