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It takes Windows 11 a minute to load the "control panel" window... just hangs.
Re-release XP and be done with it, you're bad and you should feel bad.
What follows is our plan to raise the bar on Windows 11 quality this year, with a focus on performance, reliability and well-crafted experiences.
Pavan Davuluri
Executive Vice President, Windows + Devices
What was that about Windows K2 again? Ah, who cares
They gave up, K2 is a tougher climb than Everest.
If they had tried at least we'd get a 1/5 chance that the windows market stranglehold dies lol.
Set alarm for 10am
OK setting alarm for 20am
I think instead of the computer showing you the time, they should replace the clock program with a chat prompt so you can ask the computer to guess what the time is
Nadella won't be satisfied until he maps everyone's enter key to fuckong copilot.
Jesus Christ. First they fucked over notepad and introduced dozens of application breaking new bugs and broke decades of existing functionality, now they're thinking about breaking the damn clock ?
Wait, no, they've already broken the clock in windows 11 because it no longer shows seconds, and doesn't respond to clicks on non primary displays.
I guess they decided it wasn't broken enough.
I'm getting so sick of their shit.
Oh you want to see a fun win11ism? Use the calculator to determine the number of days between 2 dates.
Win 10: 2 fields you type in
Win 11: no typing is possible. You must click and scroll through a calendar ui for each date.
I didn't even know the calculator could do that.
It borderline can’t now
It's wild to me that clocks stopped responding on non-primary windows. The first time I noticed that I thought it was broken- and I was right, because there's zero rhyme or reason for removing that functionality.
I don't think they removed it, as such, it's more that they rewrote the clock from scratch and didn't know the old clock did that, and didn't care to find out.
Similar to how task manager used to suppress the refresh if shift was being held down and that no longer works in Windows 11 because they rewrote it and never looked at Dave's original code.
Is it your laptop, or theirs?
It's obviously their laptop.. what's your point ?
If they've ceded that much control, there aren't many ways it's still their hardware left.
I'm not following you... Like most corporates, they've locked it down, in this case with BeyondTrust, so that it's not even possible to run unapproved executables without a dialog box popping up and demanding and explanation which then creates a ticket with security, who casually deny it a few days later.
Can't they just make tabbed file explorer work properly instead?
What's wrong with tabbed file explorer? I haven't run into any issues yet
There's no way to automatically open new folders in a tab. You can right click but in windows 11 it's hidden in the more options menu by default. You can overcome some of this with regedit but I only use windows for work and naturally I'm locked out of that.
Motherf-
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I started writing a clock app of my own because the Windows 11 clock app didn't have a proper analog mode and it's pretty useless. (Windows 3 clock app had analog mode, why not Windows 11?)
Some time ago I was ranting that instead of adding an analog mode, Microsoft will probably just pointlessly add Copilot to the clock app.
...Don't blame me! I was just pointing out the obvious direction Microsoft is going for, whether we like it or not!
Aaaaanyway. This summer's project is to figure out how the hell the Godot layout system works so I can make the layout responsive and I can release 1.1.
A system prompt hints at local AI-powered productivity features, specifically optimized for students. For example, the Clock app’s Focus session will act as a ‘Productivity’ assistant that breaks down tasks into clear, actionable steps, and it works by inferring the task category, then referencing the coursework of the student.
It would be great if there were a way to use AI to help people learn more effectively. But this feels like a way to train young people to become dependent on AI assistance for tasks/skills we humans used to be able to do well enough without AI. An addiction, rather than an assistant.
But why the clock app? I mean there is already Microsoft To-Do app specifically for reminders and tasks organisation...
The "old" clock app already had a Pomodoro feature (which I did not realize existed until recently) and you can argue this is a logical progression, I guess.
