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[–] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 29 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

More effort in the meme than the entirety of windows 11

[–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's not true, they put a lot of effort in the enshittification process 😐

[–] salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 5 points 2 weeks ago

That's actually true. I adopted W11 early, since as an admin I knew I was going to have to deal with it eventually. I hated the settings UI, but otherwise it was pretty much W10. Then in the last year or so they started enshittifying the hell out of it, cramming Copilot down our throats, trying to force mandatory MS accounts harder, and recently by bugging the hell out of everything. It was a fine (not great, just fine) OS until about a year ago when they put a ton of effort into fucking it up.

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 weeks ago

The last vestiges of the software company Microsoft died when they killed Windows Phone. What’s left is just Microsoft the IP holding company and hedge firm.

The Xbox lost money for its entire life, but the point was to make enough of a splash to guarantee the next consoles were a success. When the red ring debacle happened Microsoft spent billions to make it right in order to save the brand and the company’s reputation. Now they are content to kill Xbox in favor of licensed branding and a subscription.

Windows Phone represented an investment that went all the way back to Windows CE and Windows Mobile and devices like the Dreamcast and later the Zune with partnerships including Palm, Samsung, Motorola, Toshiba, and Sega as well as a merging of the Windows code base that allowed universal Windows/Xbox/Surface apps to be built. Then, literally weeks after HP announced a new Windows Phone device catalog with capabilities like docking stations and a desktop interface, they killed it off for that quarter’s profits.

It was clear to me then that the last bits of the culture that saved the Xbox and cared about software and longevity was gone.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

When other CEOs see how much code is written by AI at MS, they should remember that MS are looking to sell AI code writing tools and need as much training data as possible.

If your core business is software rather than AI swill for other CEOs, I'd avoid forcing it on anyone. Devs are lazy. If we find a job it's good at, we'll use it.

[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

It's been pretty good at finding functions that don't exist.

[–] untorquer@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Me: Try to open new tab in explorer

Explorer: crashes and restarts

Checks out...

[–] regedit@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago

If you don't use Windows, I'll be out of a job and on the street! Please, bro! Just switch to Windows 11. It's worth it (so they don't beat me, again)!