I am genuinely impressed how one of the largest tech companies on the planet manages to make their flagship product, which they've been developing for more than a quarter of a century, worse with every subsequent release :stalin-gun-1: :tux:
They're dragging behind them a good 30 years of legacy support by now that they cannot possibly get rid off or half the organisations that use it wouldn't buy their dumbass OS anymore. It's basically kept afloat by huge firms using Payroll Deluxe 2000 from 1999 to handle all their employee wages and seeing as it works, they refuse to update it, and so MS keeps supporting it, so they refuse to update it etc. etc.
Like the day MS decides "Okay you know what, we cannot possibly get this bloated mess to work any longer, our new OS doesn't support all the old shit now" you're probably going to see some major corporations and large parts of public sector organisations just basically falter.
Yeah, home edition Windows is basically spyware now. There's no profit in it unless they show you ads 24/7.
Wasn't the whole point of windows 10 that they would just keep updating it forever?
Yeah a M$ guy was quoted as saying "windows 10 is the last version." It was actually pretty worrying when all the "OS as a service" talk was in the discourse tbh because I heard chatter about how they wanted to move to a model where people "rent" the operating system from them for a recurring fee instead of buying (or DLing) it -- and this is something that must not be allowed to be normalized.
Other people in this thread said money is why, and if you look at this article https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/11/why-microsoft-is-releasing-a-new-version-of-windows.html basically 8/9 of their bullet points are literally different ways of saying the reason is money lol. It turns out that their frequent updates were fucking up too many users' systems too (like mine, three weeks ago)
shouts out to billy gates for giving my that extra push to switch to linux
Yeah it has a memory leak. I think it's been patched already? But yeah Microsoft is something else lol
Well nice to see that hasn't changed at least... I guess.
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Users who upgraded to Windows 11 this month face a number of issues, of which only some are confirmed officially by Microsoft.
Emote of Steve Balmer "Developers" power poses, sweating through his shirt
If you persistantly want to have spyware on your computer, please be reminded that Microsoft has been AUTOMATICALLY UPDATING TO WINDOWS 11
(This can be avoided by updating your registry to bamboozle the 20+ year old operating system)
I heard it from an IT industry friend. Which I guess is as good as him saying it's from his uncle who works at Nintendo. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Sorry, I should've actual done some research first.
it's not supposed to be automatic, in fact the opposite - but a lot of nerds have been complaining their computers are automagically upgrading to 11 overnight, even if they don't have the hardware verification turned on in the BIOS that is supposed to be required. I only know this because I've been having graphics card issues and have read a lot of hardware forums in the last couple days.
What are even the supposed benefits of windows 11? I've only ever heard bad things
