The Slow Death of Windows

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Considering how much data mining MS does I find it incredible that they manage to consistently misunderstand the needs of their customers

Microsoft shot itself and continues to shoot in the foot by chasing fads when most people just want a stable operating system that stays out of the way. I'd still be using Windows 7 if it was still supported.

I remember the first time i got a windows 10 pc, first thing that happened is i accidentally installed Onedrive that straight up hijacked all my files in my documents and stored it through their cloud services, and as i didn't pay for Onedrive i only had a very small cloud storage that became used up within like a day or so, when that happened most games or programs that tried writing data to my documents told me the folder was full, - Onedrive popped up telling me i have to pay to get more storage. Games couldn't find stuff like savefiles and so on... i tried deleting Onedrive, but it literally reinstalled itself, i tried taking out all the files from the cloud storage and changing location of my documents folder - didn't work, Onedrive just changed everything back to how it was before. It was like a damn virus man i had to disable and shut down my microsoft account for it to stop messing with me.

As an IT Professional, I hate the unnecessary changes that are regularly made to Office products, apparently just for the sake f change. I think a lot of people at Microsoft make changes simply to justify their employment w/o adding any real benefit. In fact, many times it resets the learning curve and user comfort using the applications in a work environment.

Users: We want a clean stable and well done operating system! Microsoft: Adds AI bloat in every corner of the OS

"removing old context menus etc" Often, those old context menus are the only way, or easiest way to do things. They pushed the new base interfaces (Settings, etc) without actually finishing it. It's still not finished.

Their 'big bet on AI' is literally what makes me consider to go to Linux.

I wholeheartedly believe that the biggest thing that is keeping windows alive is gaming. If the paradigm was diferent, watch Windows die in the 2010s

Windows losing market share is GOOD. It makes for a more balanced market for operating systems, so developers don't just ignore Mac/Linux forever.

You never even talked about the elephant in the room which is the gaming industry! For a lot of people, it's the only reason they still have a Windows installation at all. And I hope Valve's efforts with the Steam Deck improve gaming on Linux to the point where I don't have to deal with Windows anymore.

"this release has not introduced any new computing paradigms but instead has primarily focused on refining the actual core PC experience" so an non functional file explorer is them refining the experience?

the thing is: i dont feel as comfortable with windows as i used to . its not just because i got older and became more sensetive towards certain topics, but more that MS changed so much in terms of privacy and policies. on windows 95,98,ME,2000 and XP i never dropped a thought about MS gathering my data of usage. windows 7 was the first time i heard rumors about it and since windows 10, it feels to me that MS wants to control, what we use on the pc and be a police of some sorts. it feels like if MS could have it their way, then they want to able to block the installation of software like torrents, or survey what you do with torrents in order to report it, if you do something with it that isnt allowed. its not about crimes, its not about allowing illegal stuff, its about the policy of snooping around to see IF someone uses it the wrong way. but iam so used to windows that changing to linux or something else feels hard and i dont wanna run into situation, where software X doenst run and i need to use alternatives or have to live with the fact, that game X doesnt run at all

One thing you need to understand is that the engineers, managers and VPs working at these companies are incentivised to do whatever will get them promoted. Launching a new type of Windows demonstrates "impact" and "leadership" they can claim on their next performance reviews, whereas cleaning up, stabilising and improving existing features is nowhere near as sexy or showcaseable.

The issue is all the half finished features. The UI is a mess. For example, transparrency. Not even all their OWN apps support it. WinAero looked and functioned better than Windows 11 transparency and was MUCH more consistent. I'll never understand why they scrapped it only to trickle it back in.

As a Linux user, I'm happy to see that it's slowly becoming more popular. Open source is the best

Microsoft: AI will surely save us! Customers: RECALL DOES WHAT!?!?

I'm in the process of migrating from Windows to Linux, not because of any practical reason, but because I believe that Microsoft's "you don't really own your computer" attitude is reaching a critical point. Windows 11's requirement that users use a Microsoft account, not a local account, is a great example of this, as is their endorsement of Google's plan to require "certified" browsers, and thereby kill the internet. If Microsoft reverses this trend, I'll happily revert to Windows.

I like Windows in terms of compatibility with a lot of programs and a good variety of hardware. However, I think part of the reason why Windows is probably slowly declining is because of the way that Microsoft is just adding a bunch of telemetry, data collection, and half-baked gimmicky features for no apparent reason instead of focusing on the quality of the OS.

I remember when I would remove Windows built in bloatware, and then secretly in the background, they would load it back up again. Peeved me off to no end.