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This headline has nothing to do with the linked article. The article discusses a fix for Win11 on AMD processors. The article does not claim, or even imply, tha

This headline has nothing to do with the linked article. The article discusses a fix for Win11 on AMD processors. The article does not claim, or even imply, that "MS software has gone downhill." I'm not a Microsoft booster, but it seems that submitter has an axe to grind...

rstuart4133 5y ago
Submitter here. You're right about the article being unrelated, but that is a mistake on my part. Turns out HN removes ?query and #fragment from the URL. The URL I submitted was: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/10/amd-and-microsoft-release-fixes-for-ryzen-slowdowns-in-windows-11/?comments=1&post=40343211#comment-40343211 Sorry - I wasn't aware HN did that. I can't see any way to fix it.
- allears 5y ago
  That's an interesting anecdote, from a MS developer, which I hadn't seen. And certainly relates to the headline you posted. Too bad HN won't allow the direct link, and apologies for assuming you were trying to misrepresent things.
- jiggawatts 5y ago
  Customers like me definitely noticed this happening. We also noticed how documentation completeness and quality took a massive dive. Something like 90-95% of all Microsoft's "docs" these days are auto-generated from the code, and do not have doc-comments to provide English text. So the text, if any, is literally just the identifiers with space characters added between the words. The only doco they have is some blog articles and maybe a few pages of overview docs for their flagship products. That's it. I've seen docs regularly updated for each of the releases such as 2010, 2013, 2016, etc... and then just nothing for the 2019 or 2020 releases. Maybe a page or two, that's it. I recently got an automated email sent to me by GitHub because someone started working on an issue I opened for missing 2019 docs. It's nearly 2022!
  - prirai 5y ago
    Yeah, there have been blogs like how to view downloads in Edge and how to add a new user in Windows.
- dredmorbius 5y ago
  That's not visible either unless JS is enabled (it's not just your imagination, the Web's quality has gone downhill). If you have issues getting a submission parsed correctly, please email the HN moderator team at hn@ycombinator.com
  - rstuart4133 5y ago
    Thanks. I've emailed them.
- ksec 5y ago
  I actually flagged your post. But now seeing it was the comment that you were trying to bring attention to it makes more sense.
- usr1106 5y ago
  That's an insightful post. What a pity it got lost because of HN's URL stripping. So it's not empty words, Microsoft loves Linux. At least they they adopted Linux / open source testing organization. (Some projects are better than others, there is OpenQA, but quite often you get free (as in beer in this case) software and pay with own efforts that has not been systematically tested or documented.) Disclaimer: Developer, have used only Linux for 13 years. Would never take a job again that requires me to touch Windows.
  - prirai 5y ago
    I only want Microsoft to get DirectX implementation in the kernel and then Windows can be gone for good. Perhaps, the steps are in this way.
- dang 5y ago
  I've restored the URL. Sorry about that. But I don't understand how you arrived at the title - that language does not appear anywhere on the page as far as I can tell. In that case it would be better to use representative language from the OP itself. ("Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." is in https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)
- jdsully 5y ago
  Things were a bit more organized in other orgs. The windows org actively fought Satia so eventually he just forced the issue with a mass layoff.

rstuart4133 5y ago

Submitter here. You're right about the article being unrelated, but that is a mistake on my part. Turns out HN removes ?query and #fragment from the URL. The URL I submitted was: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/10/amd-and-microsoft-release-fixes-for-ryzen-slowdowns-in-windows-11/?comments=1&post=40343211#comment-40343211 Sorry - I wasn't aware HN did that. I can't see any way to fix it.

allears 5y ago
That's an interesting anecdote, from a MS developer, which I hadn't seen. And certainly relates to the headline you posted. Too bad HN won't allow the direct link, and apologies for assuming you were trying to misrepresent things.
jiggawatts 5y ago
Customers like me definitely noticed this happening. We also noticed how documentation completeness and quality took a massive dive. Something like 90-95% of all Microsoft's "docs" these days are auto-generated from the code, and do not have doc-comments to provide English text. So the text, if any, is literally just the identifiers with space characters added between the words. The only doco they have is some blog articles and maybe a few pages of overview docs for their flagship products. That's it. I've seen docs regularly updated for each of the releases such as 2010, 2013, 2016, etc... and then just nothing for the 2019 or 2020 releases. Maybe a page or two, that's it. I recently got an automated email sent to me by GitHub because someone started working on an issue I opened for missing 2019 docs. It's nearly 2022!
- prirai 5y ago
  Yeah, there have been blogs like how to view downloads in Edge and how to add a new user in Windows.
dredmorbius 5y ago
That's not visible either unless JS is enabled (it's not just your imagination, the Web's quality has gone downhill). If you have issues getting a submission parsed correctly, please email the HN moderator team at hn@ycombinator.com
- rstuart4133 5y ago
  Thanks. I've emailed them.
ksec 5y ago
I actually flagged your post. But now seeing it was the comment that you were trying to bring attention to it makes more sense.
usr1106 5y ago
That's an insightful post. What a pity it got lost because of HN's URL stripping. So it's not empty words, Microsoft loves Linux. At least they they adopted Linux / open source testing organization. (Some projects are better than others, there is OpenQA, but quite often you get free (as in beer in this case) software and pay with own efforts that has not been systematically tested or documented.) Disclaimer: Developer, have used only Linux for 13 years. Would never take a job again that requires me to touch Windows.
- prirai 5y ago
  I only want Microsoft to get DirectX implementation in the kernel and then Windows can be gone for good. Perhaps, the steps are in this way.
dang 5y ago
I've restored the URL. Sorry about that. But I don't understand how you arrived at the title - that language does not appear anywhere on the page as far as I can tell. In that case it would be better to use representative language from the OP itself. ("Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." is in https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)
jdsully 5y ago
Things were a bit more organized in other orgs. The windows org actively fought Satia so eventually he just forced the issue with a mass layoff.