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Microsoft has been built on a 40 year old tech monopoly under which is has fully leveraged abusive anti-consumer and anti-user tactics that have kept it there. It’s amazing they have lasted this long while accreting so much hate. This greed, their creepy starry-eyed cult-like adoption of LLMs, and the destruction of user trust by the outright THEFT of user data will be their downfall. You simply cannot vibe code a good operating system.
Watching one of the largest corporations ever conceived BEG users to use OneDrive and Edge, then surreptitiously change settings and install software to make it so is mind boggling. They simply cannot STAND that you won’t let them train models on your data, glowing bright green with envy at Google and Apple’s closed hardware systems.
I’ll say it again and again, I would have happily paid for Windows 10, but they gave it away for free, then marched an unwilling user base to 11 only for it to be the worst OS since Windows Vista. Extreme wealth breeds insanity.
Hell, they weren't doing too well before that, either. The whole creepy "we know better" vibe was pretty noticeable before the advent of LLMs too - although of course it's made it a ton worse. But they were always inept and douchy to boot.
As the joke goes, "Do you think Microsoft understands consent? Yes / Maybe yes later"
(Personally I think 11 is way worse than Vista - in isolation, relative to the previous one, morally, somehow UX wise, pretty much any metric you want.)
I have to agree. Vista was a dud, but there were a number of legitimate improvements made over Windows XP. Windows 11 is just a worse Windows 10. Other than maybe tabs in the Explorer, I can't think of anything they've improved and a whole lot they made worse.
Exactly. Vista was rushed and buggy but that's, y'know, par for the course really. I think there was a time in the 00's where they really wanted to be extremely optimistic about Moore's law-style performance gains, and for some reason they thought they could aim ahead of the curve. Cue Vista actually running like dogshit even aside from outright crashes and such.
Vista and 8.1 were my favorite Windows versions since XP.
Vista could easily be made into a normal gray Windows experience
The day they killed off Windows Phone is they day I knew that there were no more devs left in the c-suite and that they were on a slow path to spinning off what’s left of their profitability.
Windows phone was kinda good. I liked the UI
They believe they have a captive audience.
In the corporate world, they do.
You are completely right. That will be true until Linux is proven to have enough utility and be able to run enough the software end users need. Active directory is killer, but there are alternatives.
It's a shame Novell is circling the drain, as it does have the ability to manage Windows and Linux machines in a similar network. If Microsoft fucks up hard enough and the opportunity is there, we might see an exodus. European governments are supposedly pioneering this now.
I'm aware this is still incredibly improbable, but the possibility is growing.
My switch to Linux has been so easy. I'm not some high end IT guy. If you can install windows from a USB, you can install Linux.
Yeah, it's super simple.
I'm selling a pile of computers I bought off auction. People are choosing Fedora over Windows 60% of the time.
I just installed kubuntu on a couple of 4th gen Microsoft surfaces rather than upgrade to win11. I needed to install a little extra for the touch screen but it was easy to find and easy to do.
Surface 4 sucks on w11. Mint is also a great choice. That's what I'm using on mine at home. My only complaint is hardware, either the battery is finally falling or it has weird parasitic draw.
My battery died years ago so that's no thing for me. It's a bed and shed laptop, I've got mains power in both those places.
Replacing the battery is no joke. I spent a few hours on the task, but I was bouncing between that and several other things.
xbox is a dumpster fire too
Windows 11 was just supposed to be Windows 10 with just an UI change and some more features, but with the slop code it's become extremely annoying.