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I would have been fine using Cortana in Windows 10, but unfortunately, it slowed down the Windows key search UI just enough to be frustrating and worth the time
by 1123581321 7y ago
I would have been fine using Cortana in Windows 10, but unfortunately, it slowed down the Windows key search UI just enough to be frustrating and worth the time to disable in settings. I don’t at all mind its existence but it really needs to add functionality without introducing new drawbacks, especially for frequently used areas of the OS.
(MacOS was little better as it didn’t even try to integrate Siri with Spotlight and kept it in its own, infrequently-used app.)
- MereInterest 7y agoAgreed entirely. In Windows 7, I could hit the Winkey, type the first few letters of a program, then hit enter. The results were instant and consistent, so I could build muscle memory on it. In Windows 10, the search results take several seconds to show up, and change depending on what new files there are, how many starting characters I typed, whether the index is up to date, and the phase of the moon.
- Lewton 7y agoThere must be a lot of macs or linux machines in the department responsible for the search because there's no way any developer is dogfooding that user hostile mess
- bayindirh 7y agoIIRC the conversation I've had with a former Microsoft employee, some features are developed as mini competitions. Requirements are sent to the group(s) and first acceptable implementation gets merged. e.g. for the Ribbon-UI in Office, there was 3-4 implementations until one was selected as final. So the Windows search UI is the fastest developed one with acceptable features.
- marcosdumay 7y agoOuch. If I wanted to create a process with the goal of generating technical debt, I wouldn't get something that effective. It's even beaultiful how it leverages all the competition flaws to get this result. I imagine the result is reflected on the employees productivity assessment and the worst performers fired, so it can exploit evolutionary dynamics to create the highest possible amount of debit.
- bayindirh 7y agoRemember, this is the same Microsoft where people are frowned upon for merging fixes and optimizations to the Windows kernel instead of implementing new-and-shiny features [0]. [0]: http://blog.zorinaq.com/i-contribute-to-the-windows-kernel-we-are-slower-than-other-oper/ http://blog.zorinaq.com/i-contribute-to-the-windows-kernel-w...
- TeMPOraL 7y agoI wonder who had such a brilliant idea. Merging in competing whichever variant got to meet the spec the fastest? It's setting yourself to fail.
- hakfoo 7y agoMicrosoft now believes I have a deranged crush on some 1800s Canadian named Ostman because it takes just long enough to eat the first character when I press the windows key and start typing in 'postman'.