Comment on Microsoft has a big Windows 10 problem, and only one year to solve it

• Warjac@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The ads, AI garbage and spyware do though.

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  • leopold@lemmy.kde.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s funny, but said the exact same thing about Windows 10. It had ads and spyware. It also had Cortana, the AI garbage of its time. Consumers will never learn.

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    • Warjac@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I hate 10. I’d rather have 7 again. It really sucks being forced to change OS when it’s a bad switch, sucks even worse when it’s because there’s no choice.

      I remember the day I built my PC and realized the only Windows OS most new games would run on was 10. So much bloat and useless crap, so many intuitive features gone or moved to obtuse places.

      Microsoft is really good at enshittifying things and has been for the last decade or so. If only it wasn’t about the money.

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      • egrets@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        At the risk of being unpopular, I think a lot of what people perceive as unintuitive or worse in terms of settings and OS features is just change. I’m on Enterprise Windows 11 at work and I wouldn’t willingly go back to Windows 10.

        I think because it’s Enterprise I’m dodging a lot of the worst of it - ads, telemetry, surprise updates, etc - but the unified settings are better once you learn them, tabbed File Explorer is better, dark mode switching is way better - there’s plenty to like.

        I want to see the rise of the Linux desktop as much as anyone, but implying Windows 11 is all bad isn’t that fair an assessment.

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    • Starbuncle@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Microsoft did ruin Windows with Windows 8, then they made it even worse with Windows 10 and now they’re making it even fucking worse with 11. Windows 7 was the golden age of Windows.

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