Let’s hope it’s actually true.
No, it’s not Windows fault. Microsoft has problems, needs to be fixed.
The nail in the coffin for me was, when I got an add for some copilot course shit, on Microsoft teams, (this was on my work pc btw) with notifications ringing everywhere btw, on a fucking business account (I am using Linux at my household, not fucking microslop). That was IT for me. How they have the audacity to do so, is beyond me.
They figure once they have a captive audience, anything short of killing the hostage is fair game.
Actually, it seems that even killing the hostage is fair game.
Microsoft Copilot Tells User Suicide Is an Option - https://futurism.com/the-byte/microsoft-copilot-user-suicide
Say what you want about Microsoft, but at the very least, it seems to know when it needs to change course.
That has to be sarcasm, right?
*rename course.
There, fixed it. 😁
It is now couscous
Lmfao they “removed” LLM bullshit from Notepad by removing the Copilot branding and making it less prominent.
LLM.
In Notepad.
“Fixed” with… product branding and marketing revisions.
Get the fuck out of here, Microslop.
It doesn’t say that it actually does. Just knows.
Windows 12 must be around the corner
And just like everything since windows xp, it’s a an iterative change from the last version with arbitrary things that are broken and only about 3/4 of the way through the product’s life do the features improve to the around the level of promise that was initially made, save for the stuff that’s been removed or intentionally broken to stifle interoperability, or stuffed with advertising.
They could put a built-in linux installer
imagine if every pc got pre-installed with an ISO that asks “windows or linux” before installing anything instead of defaulting to windows like they do now. that would be awesome
Imagine that also on a phone. Pure awesomeness
why would you ever want windows on your phone?
I was thinking about choosing default android, pure aosp, lineageos, graphene…
Wow, a mysterious set of updates that’ll fix everything, without any release date or explanation?
Yeah nah, it’ll be great if it works out but something tells me it might just not. Taking on SteamOS… Good luck with that.
the Start menu is getting a full rewrite in WinUI 3, which will make it 60% more responsive
Uh. I think I found the issue. A menu isn’t even supposed to have various degrees of responsiveness.
Yeah. 60% more responsive for something infamous for taking multiple seconds to launch is depressingly bad. That’s “not even trying” levels of improvement.
The start menu should open essentially instantly (excluding optional animations) – 100 ms is good, 200 ms is somewhat adequate. They’re aiming for somewhere between 400 and 1200 ms.
I hope for them that they underpromise and overdeliver because this does not inspire confidence.
For a menu to take longer than 200ms is ridiculous. At 500ms of wait for my menu to show, the OS is getting nuked.
As for the ‘inspire confidence’,when was the last time MS inspired anything that was not disgust? Excluding the C-suite and some investors, of course.
Some of the newer C# features are nice. Of course .Net is not handled by the same people who keep setting Windows on fire.
I have seen my work laptop take upwards of 30 seconds to open the start menu. I want to crush it office-space style. 32g of ram and it apparently swaps the launcher!
User: the updates keep breaking my system, I see AI and ads everywhere and stupid electron apps use all my RAM
MS execs: I know! Let’s rewrite the start menu again!
To be fair, using react for it was just an odd decision to begin with.
Yeah, React Native exists basically for the sole purpose of making things multiplatform easily. A menu that’s specifically made for one operating system is only getting the downsides.
Valve: We just gonna release linux-based gaming miniPC.
The rest of the market:
Gamers rise up moment
But then sit back down when you see the state of IT retail
Thats the furrys problem, not the gamers
Did y’all miss this past week where they disabled their flagship egg-basket for 1.5 billion people on purpose?
Yeah they made Copilot chromium-browser only for about 5 days. On purpose. Or, the less charitable version is they just rolled out a bug that broke things for a massive amount of people, kept the news reports down, and waited a week before being convinced that was a Dumb As Fuck move.
Everyone has to learn this in their own ways but tech people always get there eventually: microsoft is, and always has been, awful.
It’s like learning HP printers are awful.
To be fair old HP laserjets are still good printers 20 years later… Newer models? Trash
I had an HP laser printer pre 2000, the thing was built like a tank and just always worked
I had to buy a printer recently to replace a used one from the 90’s that I’d been happily using for the past decade, and decided to go with a fairly new laser brother printer. I plugged it in and, magically, it really did just work, even on Linux.
no more copilot: i’m the pilot now
Who cares if it’s true? Just ditch windows already
Exactly. Too fucking late.
I switched to Linux two years ago, never looked back and will never ever spend my own money on Microsoft products again. They violated my trust so I abandoned them.
ffs, all I’m hearing is that they plan to fuck with it a lot in upcoming months, which can only be bad news
K2, the synthetic analog of THC?
Bold move Cotton, let’s see how it works out for 'em.
“Ok, ok, we hear you, no more copilot.
Meet: sidepilot.”
