Not sure what you mean. Do you know about Active Desktop in Win98? They’ve been doing shit like this since forever.
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Roflmasterbigpimp@lemmy.world 7 months ago
When did Microsoft forget how to do stuff? No one ever said: Wow! I really, really like being forced to use something! My reaction to being forced to use it didn’t instantly diminish my desire to use this product!
frezik@midwest.social 7 months ago
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Sums it up right there. Goes for most of tech in the past decade or so though. Lots of incremental upgrades and nothing really mind blowing. Imo AI is not. At least not yet.
summerof69@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Ultimately, most people stay with the default option, that’s why they have to be aggressive. Look at the amount of screenshots even in advanced PC communities with ugly useless search bar enabled, which is taking 1/3 of the taskbar. I’m not even speaking about casual users who have no idea this can be disabled.
blssflbreeze@lemmy.world 7 months ago
yeah, it’s fucking exhausting to go through and disable the 10’s or 100’s of options they set by default that you don’t want. I have a computer that I have disabled updates on because they kept resetting my deeper configs with updates. I’m not getting another windows computer unless I have to because god that shit took so long to set up.
knexcar@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Why not leave the defaults as-is? They’re probably set like that for a reason.
exanime@lemmy.today 7 months ago
So they have to be aggressive by automatically adding garbage nobody wants because otherwise people won’t bother activating said garbage they don’t want?
summerof69@lemm.ee 7 months ago
No, because most people stick with the default option regardless.
exanime@lemmy.today 7 months ago
I’m just trying to understand my our point… You argue they have to do this because people won’t bother on their own… Then proceed to back your statement with an example where MS added garbage and people don’t bother or can’t figure to remove it…
I mean, you and I known MS could simply ask… They don’t because they want that slide that says x many million users of Copilot…