Let’s hope it’s actually true.
Who cares if it’s true? Just ditch windows already
Exactly. Too fucking late.
I switched to Linux two years ago, never looked back and will never ever spend my own money on Microsoft products again. They violated my trust so I abandoned them.
the sources claim that the Start menu is getting a full rewrite in WinUI 3, which will make it 60% more responsive
Oh good, that’ll bring it all the way up to a third as responsive as the Windows 7 one was.
Let’s not forget that Win7 was almost 25% as responsive as Win2k3, which could even hold a candle to GNOME.
Wow, a mysterious set of updates that’ll fix everything, without any release date or explanation?
Yeah nah, it’ll be great if it works out but something tells me it might just not. Taking on SteamOS… Good luck with that.
ffs, all I’m hearing is that they plan to fuck with it a lot in upcoming months, which can only be bad news
That’s what they said a month ago, then they decided that ‘remove copilot from notepad’ meant ‘rename copilot in notepad’.
I remember reading that plan and being shocked about how good it sounded. And then they did the exact opposite of every single thing they promised, which I’m sure endeared themselves to all their enterprise customers.
So sure, I welcome Microsoft’s attempts to finally drag itself back into relevancy, but they’ve got a massive self-inflicted foot wound that’s gonna complicate matters.
Reminds me of this: https://youtu.be/OccgHwPwwjo
Well, when Microsoft finally admits they’re wrong they usually backtrack well enough. Think windows 8/8.1
It was still an ugly pig with lipstick but the worst parts like the start screen were gone.
Oh noooooo 8 was much more than lipstick. No, that was a giant inflatable space pig rushed out the door with the body of a moose and Constructed of fine mesh.
Fascinating to watch the car crash though.
That was a different time when they were getting the smackdown from Janet Reno.
“drag itself back into relevancy”
They still have some like a little more than 90% market share. That seems pretty relevant to me.
Say what you want about Microsoft, but at the very least, it seems to know when it needs to change course.
That has to be sarcasm, right?
It doesn’t say that it actually does. Just knows.
*rename course.
There, fixed it. 😁
It is now couscous
Lmfao they “removed” LLM bullshit from Notepad by removing the Copilot branding and making it less prominent.
LLM.
In Notepad.
“Fixed” with… product branding and marketing revisions.
Get the fuck out of here, Microslop.
What ever happened to Windows 10 being the last OS you’d ever need?
Different management.
That will be the last Windows I’ll use. When windows 10 stopped working then I’ll switch to Linux full time.
Well never upgraded to 11… So…
It is the last windows I needed.
Ha gottem
They couldn’t cram as many ads as they wanted into it.
The same that happened to 640k of memory
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Aww, and I finally just moved over to Linux.
If you’re happy on Linux, stay on Linux. This is Microsoft’s “I can change baby, I swear” play. Just like they did after Windows 8. And Windows Vista. And Windows ME.
Surely they have learned their lessons and will never intentionally tank their product in the name of profit again. Surely this time.
Aww
More like “aww yeah”
Lol. Me too. I mean, I’ve been running primarily Linux for decades, now this single press release will have me watching for Windows 13 with interest. (This is hopefully obviously sarcasm - meant only to give you a laugh and maybe help you feel chill about whatever you do for your next OS.)
Just stay on Linux. Microslop won’t actually fix anything.
We’re truly better off where we are
User: the updates keep breaking my system, I see AI and ads everywhere and stupid electron apps use all my RAM
MS execs: I know! Let’s rewrite the start menu again!
To be fair, using react for it was just an odd decision to begin with.
“Ok, ok, we hear you, no more copilot.
Meet: sidepilot.”
For one, the sources claim that the Start menu is getting a full rewrite in WinUI 3, which will make it 60% more responsive and notably more customizable.
Customizable for whom?
Users? Advertisers?Windows users will be soon, for the first time ever, able to put the task bar on any edge of the screen, imagine that for customization.
you could do that in XP I’m pretty sure. Can you not do that in 11?
That’s the joke, all you can do in 11 is move the icons to the left or leave em in the center. XP, 7, 10, all allowed task bar movement to any edge of screen
Maybe this time my abusive spouse won’t beat me. I just need to go home. They’ve changed. They promise.
So Windows 11 Service Pack 2? Or just win11.1?
I think they should call it ‘The Windows 11 Apology Tour’.
How MS is a still a thing and still turns a profit is beyond me.
Vendor lock in and government bribery.
Helping Israel commit genocide, for one.
Did y’all miss this past week where they disabled their flagship egg-basket for 1.5 billion people on purpose?
Yeah they made Copilot chromium-browser only for about 5 days. On purpose. Or, the less charitable version is they just rolled out a bug that broke things for a massive amount of people, kept the news reports down, and waited a week before being convinced that was a Dumb As Fuck move.
Everyone has to learn this in their own ways but tech people always get there eventually: microsoft is, and always has been, awful.
It’s like learning HP printers are awful.
To be fair old HP laserjets are still good printers 20 years later… Newer models? Trash
I had an HP laser printer pre 2000, the thing was built like a tank and just always worked
I had to buy a printer recently to replace a used one from the 90’s that I’d been happily using for the past decade, and decided to go with a fairly new laser brother printer. I plugged it in and, magically, it really did just work, even on Linux.
The nail in the coffin for me was, when I got an add for some copilot course shit, on Microsoft teams, (this was on my work pc btw) with notifications ringing everywhere btw, on a fucking business account (I am using Linux at my household, not fucking microslop). That was IT for me. How they have the audacity to do so, is beyond me.
They figure once they have a captive audience, anything short of killing the hostage is fair game.
Actually, it seems that even killing the hostage is fair game.
Microsoft Copilot Tells User Suicide Is an Option - https://futurism.com/the-byte/microsoft-copilot-user-suicide
Maybe it’s the best way out of Microsoft anyways, since it seems like a too big “obsticle” for any company out there. Never heard of anyone saying Teams is awesome, yet they all love microslop365
