My feelings exactly. Plus, in some languages "We" can be used in place of "I" by royals (and other people with a high opinion of themselves) - as in the famous

My feelings exactly. Plus, in some languages "We" can be used in place of "I" by royals (and other people with a high opinion of themselves) - as in the famous "We are not amused" |1]. That's true in my native language too. Well, perhaps we are not the target audience; I suppose MS and others made UX studies before adopting that style. "We, the computer nerds" have maybe a better idea of what's going on under the hood, so those "user illusion" [2] tricks don't work on us. [1] https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/we-are-not-amused.html https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/we-are-not-amused.html [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_illusion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_illusion [3] [3] https://asktog.com/papers/magic.html https://asktog.com/papers/magic.html