This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Completely off topic, but I hate when articles appear to link to original sources, but only link to their own site.
“Microsoft admitted that …” -> link to Microsoft’s admission? Nope, to a neowin article.
“Nvidia released a patch …” -> links to a neowin article instead of the patch.
“Microsoft KB 0000” -> surely this will link to the actual KB? Nope, neowin article.
Guess what! 😱😂
Ah but there are also a lot of minor features in Windows 11 that aren't really looking too good.
I use windows 11 everyday, without issue. what exactly is broken?
It doesn’t understand the concept of “no means no”.
I'll add, Clicking on running programs in the task bar and they refuse to become the active window. You need to work through them all to fine one that works before they all start working again.
Kind of a wide variety of things that varies from person to person in often absurd ways -- broken in ways I've never seen Macs or Linux systems be, nor even Windows 10 and older.
And that's just my personal experiences. The ones I've seen others deal with is much weirder.
Honestly I'm buying more into the idea of how ostree distros work; Windows is like a very broken version of that anymore.
On my work computer when I maximize a window, I get a little strip of desktop still showing between the window and the start bar.
I've been using windows 11 for six months. when I hover over the taskbar, a phantom windows explorer window appears, but it's not clickable and it disappears when I move the mouse away. my right hand monitor has a white box with a small 'no' symbol in it stuck in the middle of the screen. it doesn't seem to derive from any running application and I cannot get rid of it. on the windows 10 install I ran before, the task manager totally stopped working, it just froze every time I opened it. I run Linux on all my other machines and stuff does go wrong, but it goes wrong in ways that make sense to me and which I can fix. on windows people just tell you to run sfc scannow and reinstall if it doesn't work. that's no way to live your life.
I had a random no symbol on my external monitor that was being caused by its OSD detecting microphone mute and showing an icon.
This certainly isn’t a fix, but if you try to screenshot the icon and it shows up, you’ll know it’s being drawn by the computer and not the monitor.
Might give you a direction to investigate :)
One I see daily at work is File Explorer adding an extra 'window' when you hover over the icon in the taskbar. If you click on it, nothing happens, and you cant close it either.
The article is about a XAML bug, which affects a lot of core components, when used in a corporate setting.
At work I've had issues with the Start Bar not showing any/most programs and centering the one program that does show up (even though I have it left aligned). Then when I mouse over it, it'll try to move to where it should be causing it to jump around and be unclickable.
I've also had the file explorer just stop working entirely.
This is on a pretty powerful dev laptop, so it's not lack of resources.
That being said I've never heard of anyone else having that issue so it seems rare.
The start menu is mostly white for me. I have to type out what I want because I can't navigate it
See. This is why they need AI. Copilot will fix all of the issues if they just ask it nicely and tell it to not make mistakes.
And that is how it began...
Nah, copilot will see the code is unsalvageable. So it'll start replacing it with code learned from public repositories. Windows becomes Linux. Year of the Linux desktop achieved.
As silly as that sounds, it is the absolute truth.
They could resolve many things if they did not push AI so hard, or making stupid things like removing the local account option, windows recall, etc.., but i guess SHAREHOLDERS.
We aren't the consumer anymore. We are the product. The vessel which makes them money by collecting, storing, and selling our data. They don't care about making a good OS for their users anymore. Just a money train to prove their value to their shareholders.
Best part is they tied up everyone’s retirement into it. Can’t even say you want that shit to crash without grandma getting nasty.
I don't even have any Microsoft stock, but I still wanna get nasty with your grandma.
In last April:
"Satya Nadella says as much as 30% of Microsoft code is written by AI"
That was this April
sorry I think in academic calender
Microsoft, you already got me to leave Windows, you don't have to keep sending me reminders, I wasn't at risk of wanting to come back...
So when will we see W12?
Oh right, never mind. 🐧
Probably never, Windows 10 was supposed to be the last version of Windows we'd ever need and they just killed that.
This is why I have always waited for the version that is just like the previous ones, but fixed. 3.11, 98SE, XP SP2, 7, 10...
I need to get a new computer, and it has to have windows, but I'm not getting freaking Win11. Gimme Win12.
Hate to break it to you but those days are over.
From what we know so far, Win 12 will go all in on AI, cloud and a subscription model.
My prediction is that they'll go full SaaS and make the non-pro version "free", with a whole raft of features "cloud only" behind a Azure/O365 subscription.
That system fell apart when they showed they could not count to 9. 10 Should have been 9, and it was mid at best.
I've still got a year of updates on my Verizon of 10. I'm going to use them.
I finally went 100% Linux and I'm never going back.
What kind of idiots create a program that says, "Outlook failed to load. Repair application?" when the only problem is the wifi is disconnected?
All user logons to a non-persistent OS installation such as a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) or equivalent as application packages must be installed each logon in such scenarios.
Cries in supporting multi-user AVD Hosts
