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I truly despise what Microsoft has become. I rarely even use Windows but the amount of monetisation that has occurred has degenerated a somewhat acceptable prod
by hsbauauvhabzb 3y ago
I truly despise what Microsoft has become. I rarely even use Windows but the amount of monetisation that has occurred has degenerated a somewhat acceptable product into something that is bloated spyware trash.
I’m honestly surprised that there isn’t more government intervention - the productivity loss of the useless features, constant prompting to update to windows 11 or mode to edge and potential data spills caused by OneDrives absolute persistence is mind blowing.
If anyone reading this works at Microsoft as part of a team complicit in this behaviour: fuck you.
- VelesDude 3y agoGoing back to Windows XP is wild. Just how clean and pure it is. Clean boot and fire up the network connection. It check for an update... and that is it. Nothing more. My last daily driver Windows was 7 in about 2009 and now my only hands on experience with it is via work. I run Triquel one of the few FSF approved linux distro's and it still has that kind of vibe but its hardware limitations basically eliminate most people from using a system like that. But that is another side of the same issue of monetisation.
- MattGaiser 3y ago> the productivity loss of the useless features, constant prompting to update to windows 11 or mode to edge and potential data spills caused by OneDrives absolute persistence is mind blowing. Presumably this should lead to a shift to Linux or Mac machines if it were really all that noticeable among a myriad of other productivity drags.
- hsbauauvhabzb 3y agoIt wouldn’t, as soon as the movement resulted in a cost which impacted current Microsoft products, Microsoft would scale back. But Microsoft have such huge vendor lock-in within big business that moving to an alternate would be a significant cost.