Comment on Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin

Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• zaki_ft@lemmings.world ⁨29⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  It’s about keeping us guessing and reminding us who’s in charge.

  They don’t want us to get attached to things.

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• Zink@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  That’s one thing I love about FOSS, that the only stakeholders are the devs and the users. The goal is to make software that’s good at what it does.

  When it comes to any tech company’s product, you not only have all the stakeholders that corrupt the end product, but you have giant teams of marketers, designers, engineers, and managers that need to constantly justify their existence and or be efficiently utilized at all times.

  Honestly it’s like lesser version of enshittification, the tendency of commercial products to always be changing things.

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  • ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    While this is true, designers are constatnly beholden to management (much like programmers are), so while designers would love to create a nice looking usable application, they end up having to go with the mockups that management requested which are of course a worse experience for the end-user.

    It’s really sad.

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    • MangioneDontMiss@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      i feel like a lot of useless bullshit wouldn’t be made if managers and execs didn’t feel the need to validate their useless existence.

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    • TeddE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      In FOSS world, this is only as true for the subset of developers (including both programmers and designers) that are contributing code as their job duties. Additionally that effect is only prominent in projects that are dominated by one organization. Both those things do happen, but there’s also numerous exceptions, too.

      Some developers are paid to write unrelated proprietary code and the developer also contributes to open source on their free time. Some projects have so many corotate contributors that none of them can single-handedly direct the development.

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      • ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Oh, sorry, I wasn’t referencing the FOSS world with my comment.

        My code was specifically about designers working for companies, with management forcing them to design things in a way that they would rather not.

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    • Zink@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Oh I’m well aware, that’s why I threw in the part about needing to be utilized. Because even if the engineers are good with their finished product, some VP will eventually ask their director why the team’s output has dropped or why they have so many people for so little work.

      I’m an engineer working on a new product right now. Fortunately we’re a small outfit with niche customers.

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• orioler25@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  They have to because the capitalist imperative of infinite, progressive growth forces them to constantly seek out additional speculative avenues for profit. The potential for a valuable product (stock) is more valuable than a good product and is cheaper to produce than a good product. Also, important to note that you are also a product in a surveillance capitalist state thaf commodifies every second of your day. The speculative value on more profitable avenues to source and sell your data has more speculative value than any value your patronage would generate.

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• bitjunkie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Excel 97 was perfect. Now I can barely find the shit I actually need to use because of all the “features” they’ve added to justify their jobs.

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• sqgl@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Yeah, at least fix the bugs first.

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  • Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Windows has had a bug that’s driven me mad since before Windows 10 and it doesn’t seem they have any intentention to fix it.

    When I try to rename files, I always click somewhere in the text of the name or highlight a specific portion, and then 90% of the time RIGHT before I start typing to add or change the name, it randomly highlights the entire thing so the whole text gets replaced instead of the one section I wanted to change.

    INFURIATING and it’s been years that it’s happened, between two different versions of Windows!

    There’s also another 2 or 3 other bugs that are just as infuriating but I don’t imagine will ever be fixed or changed because why the fuck would windows care.

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