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• MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨17⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  “Improving”, the agentic OS thing? Or did they step back from that?

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• Fokeu@lemmy.zip ⁨34⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Hilarious

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• cley_faye@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Maybe if they keep making it worse and worse it will kind of circle back to good.

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  • EtzBetz@feddit.org ⁨21⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    That’s a kind of horseshoe theory I haven’t heard of :D

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• RamRabbit@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I have a strong feeling they won’t be removing the spying, AI everywhere, ads, and bloatware.

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  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨36⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Plus getting closer with the govt contracts to allow private data to be surveillance.

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  • t00l@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Tech has long been in the era of surveillance capitalism. Windows, Chrome, MacOS/iOS(iAds, NewsApp, notarization security, mediaanalysisd, and the most locked down hardware on earth), Android, the majority of all of the apps in the various walled gardens are all out to extract, analyze and monetize every aspect of our digital lives… which is a lot of our waking hours.

    As users of these services we all need to ask ourselves if the companies who now make up the lion-share our retirement savings, who collectively dictate how we view and interact with the world really have anything but their own best interests in mind.

    Most people would say no but “what am I supposed to do?”. People really need to understand that power like the kind that these mega-corps have is only taken and basically never surrendered willingly. Vote with your dollars now and for as long as it takes to see the fall of these vile companies.

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  • WanderingThoughts@europe.pub ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Seems they’re figuring out you can’t sell ads and AI on your platform if nobody wants to use your platform.

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  • XLE@piefed.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If Microsoft walks back their use of AI in the development of Windows, that would be a major admission of failure on their part.

    But it will probably help prolong their market dominance a great deal. Because up until they started destroying their own OS, all they needed to do to remain on the top was literally nothing.

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  • Chaser@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    As positives for them ;)

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• eightys3v3n@lemmy.ca ⁨45⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Ha. I thought this was from The Onion the first time I scrolled past it. What a hilarious joke. I hope it back fires so people and countries continue moving away from Windows.

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• SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Please don’t. It’s actually quite funny if you don’t have to use windows at all.

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• Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Okay, that's easy: remove all the LLM slop. That'll start fixing it. Then get the ads out of the UI. Get rid of the MS account requirement, and make all updates optional. For a stretch goal, go back to making an OS that only does what the user tells it to, and doesn't have any function to phone home without direct user input.

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  • Encephalotrocity@feddit.online ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Too funny. They’d need to go back to Win95 for all that.

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    • jjlinux@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      XP would be enough.

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    • Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      98SE would mostly work.

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• 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Rebuild trust?

  1. remove all telemetry
  2. remove all ai bullshit
  3. remove ads
  4. open source the whole code

  Then, and only then, we might start to trust again.

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  • nodiratime@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    GLP2 at least and reproducible builds or bust.

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  • CaptPretentious@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    To add to this list

    5. Remove WebView apps. Eat our own dogfood and use MAUI.
    6. Go back to the classic Start Menu. Use API to make the whole UI available for customizations
    7. Get rid of the whole shitty “Settings” menu and go back to the Control Panel.
    8. Drop backwards compatibility for a bunch of crap. Stop pulling the 1980s forward, let that shit die.
    9. Address real modern issues with compatibility and performance with current CPUs
    10. Undo all the vibe coding.
    11. Focus on stability and performance, not trying to be “An experience”. Windows runs apps, make it do that the best it can.
    12. For the love of everything holy, take a risk and modernize the OS. This goes back to 8. But as someone who makes Windows Server golden images for multiple platforms, FUCKING CHRIST. Having to use the Autounattend to even get anything started, and that’s often (Even in Azure) just a minimal thing to get some client to do the real work, should tell you there’s a problem. The Autounattend is poorly documented. I learned more from just building a basic VM on different providers and seeing what they figured out. I could write a god damn novel on the shortcomings of the initial installation and customization of Windows, but it’s especially embarrassing for their Server platform

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    • 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I thought of some of those, but decided to add my point (4) and allow the community to do it right.

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    • NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      15. Renew support for Windows 10.

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• supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I wake up to a bright flashing of my phone.

  It is 3am, damn I forget to turn my phone to silent.

  I can’t resist the urge, who would text me this time of night??!?

  “hey I have been thinking about you, you know I think we could work it out together. I wll spend 2026 improving myself I promise. Please baby I miss you”

  “go to bed Microslop, you are drunk and you are the one that wanted the divorce” I text back frustratedly and turn my phone to silent.

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  • XLE@piefed.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I want a divorce and I’m keeping Clippy

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• adespoton@lemmy.ca ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Rebuild trust… by integrating more mandatory and default-on server-based features?

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  • db2@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And the fixes will be vibe coded too.

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• pizza_the_hutt@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I already moved to Linux, and I’m not going back.

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  • morto@piefed.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Migrating users might be a few, but they rarely go back. A few users monthly eventually become a lot!

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• anon_8675309@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Bullshit.

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• vogi@piefed.social ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Man… :( please don’t do that. That’s super boring. They were doing so great pushing people to use Linux.

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• solrize@lemmy.ml ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Microslop is going to spend 2026 improving Windows 11.

  Why bother? Just upgrade everyone to Windows 10.

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  • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Upgrade everybody to Linux Mint. Problem solved.

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    • Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Or a distro using Wayland for higher end PCs.

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• Zen_Shinobi@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Been a linux user for a solid 9 years now. Never going back!

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• MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Image “Fuck this shit…”

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• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It seems like we’re at a real turning point for Linux adoption. I’m an Apple nerd, but I love seeing people switch to Linux and write about what a (mostly) positive experience it is. Cheers to my fellow nerds getting off the screaming pile of garbage MS if forcing on people who just want a computer that works.

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  • HeadfullofSoup@kbin.earth ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    After a win11 forced updated made my nontech 75 years old father laptop nearly useless he ask me if linux could give it a second life i’ve been a user for at least 15 years so i was more than happy to install it

    His laptop is like a new one sure he had to learn a little after so long on windows but it’s mostly really user friendly now except for some minor problem everything work out of the box (wifi,bluetooth,printer etc)

    I doubt microslop could ever get most new linux user back once they get the hang of it

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• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  lol

  Lmao, even

  Also, hi from bazzite, which runs the vast majority of games I’m interested in flawless, and usually with even better performance than W10 (let alone W11)

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  • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Hello! I am using bazzite-dx at the moment. I don’t even game much, just doing dev work.

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• renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Translation: They going to try to “marketing” their way out of this hole.

  Nothing about Windows or Microsoft will fundamentally change.

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  • CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Don‘t forget the bribes! They‘ll bribe their way back into government ministries that ditched them in no time because Macroslop is just reliable like that.

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• Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Didn’t they have to pull a botched update like last week?

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• tabular@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Source code or perish.

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• Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Let me guess: instead of improving their products, they’re going to get the US security industrial complex to silence the critics.

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• hummingbird@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The problem is upper management. Without touching that there is no hope for improvement.

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• Flying_Lynx@lemmy.ml ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I personally just want a glorified calculator (that works on text too) I can trust in doing what I tell it to do. And not some “experience” that does all kinds of unspecified things in the background. But that’s just me.

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  • Mist101@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Wait, so you’re telling me Dell that you don’t want their new AI laptop? But it’s how those ahead get, uh, behind, or whatever the buzz phrase is now.

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    • Flying_Lynx@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The phrase used to be like “move fast and crash” or something similar.

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• homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Are they, tho?

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• rb411@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  In other news, doctor prescribes a bandaid to GSW victim

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• eli@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Way too late, at least for me.

  I’ve switched over to CachyOS on three devices. My main laptop, a spare laptop(for the wife to try), and a gaming PC. All three are great and easy to use. No stupid pop ups, no AI, and I don’t have to worry about it not booting up compared to Windows(which this was the opposite 10 years ago!).

  At this point even if they make a great OS and call it Windows 12 I have zero faith that they won’t reverse and make Windows 13 terrible.

  At least with Linux I have a dozen or so options to choose from and they all work just fine. So if CachyOS becomes terrible(doubt) then I’ll switch to something else.

  At this point Windows needs to go above and beyond and be stable for YEARS and multiple versions before I switch back, which big doubt.

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• Bytemeister@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  My 4 part plan to put Microsoft back on track.

  1: Re-open support for Windows 10 until at least 2 years after the release date of the next version of Windows.

  2: Commit to making the next version of Windows less intrusive, cleaner, more reliable, and a small as technically possible.

  3: Fully fund the open source projects that Microsoft relies on for their products.

  4: Make Co-pilot an optional toolkit that runs on the background, with tight, easily configured controls and hook-ins to other applications and data.

  Please put me in charge of Microsoft. I’ll do it for a measly 10 million dollars a year. You’ll save so much on my salary, your practically can’t afford not to hire me.

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  • Brkdncr@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Win10 is dead. There no going back.

    There’s no next version. It’s all iterative.

    I agree that they should lean into open source though.

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• Crozekiel@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The biggest problem is that even if they fix it, it will take ages for the people that left to believe it is actually fixed. We can’t take MS’s word for it… And even then we will have no trust they won’t just slip right back into this hellscape a couple years (or months) down the line.

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• tanisnikana@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  one quiet “merp merp” from a three-foot tuxedo in the back of an otherwise completely silent and unimpressed audience

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