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Why doesn't Microsoft do this themselves? They've larded up Windows with tons of worthless crap, so clearly they have a lot of time of their hands. Why not give
by civilized 5y ago
Why doesn't Microsoft do this themselves? They've larded up Windows with tons of worthless crap, so clearly they have a lot of time of their hands. Why not give the user something useful for once, something that OS X users have had for decades?
Is the company full of morons, or do they just not see what's in it for them? That is, why bother helping the user if it won't necessarily make them $$$?
Sad as they are, I find these little details fascinating. They really show how unimaginative and short-term oriented giant public tech companies often are.
Apple ruining the MBP in 2016, only to walk back pretty much everything they did 6 years later, is another great example.
- justsomehnguy 5y agoa) ISVs b) anti-monopoly lawsuits TL;DR: for every QoL feature Apple/Google would be praised, M$ shitheads would be shown their place.
- ComputerGuru 5y agoNeither of those factor into MS product decisions much any more.
- justsomehnguy 5y agoIt's hard to change after two decades of.
- 0x008 5y agoThey must think that this way they will make more money. In the end for them it is not about generating a good incentive for people to stay with windows, it is just about not giving them enough incentive to leave. And - given that most people who use windows have no alternatives - the bar is very low.
- DanTheManPR 5y agoIt seems incredibly weird to me that the start menu search can't do basic stuff like launch browser bookmarks.
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- logicalmonster 5y agoI believe that all of these companies have some smart employees who are capable of tasteful design and who know about real problems with their products but who are screwed over by layers of self-serving bureaucracy. The project manager for some dumb feature in some corner of the OS wants to ensure their project is successful so they get a good review: that's often their key motivation. They're not as incentivized to expend engineering hours from their team and try and coordinate with 5 other teams to get something cool done. When it comes to building good stuff, having a powerful central figure like a Steve Jobs who can just murder bad features and force the implementation of good features is probably one of the best things a company can have.
- spaetzleesser 5y agoSeems having one capable dictator who keeps things together is really important. Same for Linux. I can't imagine it could have succeeded without Linus having the last word.
- ldx1024 5y agoThe default search tool from the Microsoft file explorer is an embarassment. Routinely doesn't find files that are there. No positive indication of when the search is actually finished. Wack advanced search syntax that I can't bother to learn. I could go on, but the things I have already listed are more than enough. The search tool on Windows XP with the animated dog was 100x better than what they have there now. I usually just go with "dir" redirected to a file when I really need to find something now. Yet another example of "upgrades" being actively worse than what came before it.
- tester756 5y agoMaybe it due to language but when I want to open downloaded folder and search for it, then the first entry on the list is "remove downloaded maps" that I never/once used meanwhile 2nd option is the one that I always use, yet its still #2...