Let’s hope it’s actually true.
Maybe this time my abusive spouse won’t beat me. I just need to go home. They’ve changed. They promise.
K2, the synthetic analog of THC?
Bold move Cotton, let’s see how it works out for 'em.
That’s what they said a month ago, then they decided that ‘remove copilot from notepad’ meant ‘rename copilot in notepad’.
I remember reading that plan and being shocked about how good it sounded. And then they did the exact opposite of every single thing they promised, which I’m sure endeared themselves to all their enterprise customers.
So sure, I welcome Microsoft’s attempts to finally drag itself back into relevancy, but they’ve got a massive self-inflicted foot wound that’s gonna complicate matters.
Well, when Microsoft finally admits they’re wrong they usually backtrack well enough. Think windows 8/8.1
It was still an ugly pig with lipstick but the worst parts like the start screen were gone.
That was a different time when they were getting the smackdown from Janet Reno.
Oh noooooo 8 was much more than lipstick. No, that was a giant inflatable space pig rushed out the door with the body of a moose and Constructed of fine mesh.
Fascinating to watch the car crash though.
Wasn’t 8.1 basically the same except the start button was back on the taskbar instead of hidden behind a weird gesture?
No, the start menu was back, in 8 it was a big full screen affair that was ridiculously big on a 24" monitor
Yup
“drag itself back into relevancy”
They still have some like a little more than 90% market share. That seems pretty relevant to me.
What ever happened to Windows 10 being the last OS you’d ever need?
The same that happened to 640k of memory
Well never upgraded to 11… So…
But it’s true!
10 was the last one you needed. 11 and onwards is neither needed nor wanted. Also people are starting to realize the power of Linux (+Wine/Proton)
That will be the last Windows I’ll use. When windows 10 stopped working then I’ll switch to Linux full time.
It is the last windows I needed.
Ha gottem
They couldn’t cram as many ads as they wanted into it.
first line is hilarious
‘Say what you will about tech billionaires, but when their wrong they really know how to double down and lose their market share’…
they never let people around them to question thier decision, its always sycophants top down.
Aww, and I finally just moved over to Linux.
We’re truly better off where we are
If you’re happy on Linux, stay on Linux. This is Microsoft’s “I can change baby, I swear” play. Just like they did after Windows 8. And Windows Vista. And Windows ME.
Surely they have learned their lessons and will never intentionally tank their product in the name of profit again. Surely this time.
Aww
More like “aww yeah”
Lol. Me too. I mean, I’ve been running primarily Linux for decades, now this single press release will have me watching for Windows 13 with interest. (This is hopefully obviously sarcasm - meant only to give you a laugh and maybe help you feel chill about whatever you do for your next OS.)
Just stay on Linux. Microslop won’t actually fix anything.
So Windows 11 Service Pack 2? Or just win11.1?
I think they should call it ‘The Windows 11 Apology Tour’.
How MS is a still a thing and still turns a profit is beyond me.
Vendor lock in and government bribery.
Helping Israel commit genocide, for one.
For one, the sources claim that the Start menu is getting a full rewrite in WinUI 3, which will make it 60% more responsive and notably more customizable.
Customizable for whom?
Users? Advertisers?Windows users will be soon, for the first time ever, able to put the task bar on any edge of the screen, imagine that for customization.
you could do that in XP I’m pretty sure. Can you not do that in 11?
That’s the joke, all you can do in 11 is move the icons to the left or leave em in the center. XP, 7, 10, all allowed task bar movement to any edge of screen
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
It doesn’t say that it actually does. Just knows.
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.
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…
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.
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!
Some of the newer C# features are nice. Of course .Net is not handled by the same people who keep setting Windows on fire.
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.
