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.
Microsoft has government and cooperate costumers that will keep paying them for decades. Why care? If MSword still works, people will buy it.
Really hoping Microsoft fails for everything ezcept Xbox. Then Xbox team takes over and then turns the company into a private non-stock unionized one
Would love to see what an Xbox-lead Microsoft can do with it reformed
What are Microsofts most moneymaking fields aboce Xbox? Are they getting eroded at all?
Xbox feels like the biggest one being eroded rn… i don’t think what Xbox is doing is any good nor would it help the main business
Azure is the cloud backbone of many businesses and services, so if Windows went away, MS would still have their fingers in a number of pies.
In last April:
“Satya Nadella says as much as 30% of Microsoft code is written by AI”
So they’ve taken a leaf out of KDE’s development book.
Is windows11 Microsoft’s KDE4 moment?
What’s your preferred DE?
I feel like Windows 11 is just another Microsoft “Windows moment”.
Microsoft finally admits
almost all majorWindows 11core featuresare brokenFTFY
Well, it does boot most of the time. So it’s not completely broken, just majorly broken…
Last month they broke audio drivers, so USB connected speakers were not being recognised unless they had third-party drivers. The native windows drivers just stopped recognising them as audio devices, and just listed them as Unknown Device.
Windows could see them, it had no idea what they were, or what to do with them. So you had no audio.
The only solution was to continuously restart until eventually it randomly worked.
Not that they’re going to fix any of them though.
“We’ll slap some ‘AI’ on any a few things and, boom, it’ll fix itself” -Whoever the Microsoft CEO is now
For what it’s worth, my KDE file browser would freeze up when I had a WebDav network drive to a server that went offline, not exactly elegant either, just opening my home folder and randomly after a second or two …… all software can bug in bad ways.
True, I’ve experienced that bug.
The big different is that, depending on how knowledgeable you are, you can either report the bug, you can diagnose it (check the logs, trace and profile the calls), dig in the code, patch it or try a patch someone developed for the bug, or simply ignore it and use a different file browser. That freedom is priceless.
With Windows you’re stuck waiting for the next upgrade that may or may not break something else and brings new and exciting AI and telemetry shoved into it.
The main difference is KDE doesn’t make disgusting money off it, and if someone cares enough they can actually submit a fix
That’s the reason I put up with a lot of FOSS issues: “I’m not paying you for this, so it’s still a better price/result ratio than paid services”
That is definitely an annoyance. But the cause is not your file browser or KDE. The webdav has been mounted to the system and when an application tries to use it, it runs into a timeout. You can’t even unmount it, since that requires the system to talk to the network drive.
This is also not limited to webdav, it happens with all kinds of network drives. This is something that needs to be addressed at the core level of Linux. But I have no expertise, so no real clue where exactly.
this is a file browser or KDE issues, as file system operations shouldn’t happen on the UI thread. if it weren’t happening on the UI thread then it would keep working.
The same behavior happens for me in a different file browser (Nemo) and a different Desktop (Cinnamon). So I’m pretty confident, it is no isolated KDE issue.
I ain’t got no problems using SFTP and SMB
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…
Didn’t windows 11 become available long ago? Did no one ever try it out before the hostage situation?
Certainly not the beta testers
I tried it for a couple of months when it first came out. At that early point it wasn’t too bad for usability. But, after a decent look around it, I wiped it and went back to Linux on my laptop.
You know I never really thought about it but do you think the spying tools these companies provide ever fail like the way their other products do?
Nah, if there’s one thing they thoroughly test, it’s the spying.
One might hope
IT has been an interesting ride the last two months, encountering some of the weirdest bugs I’ve ever seen, after two decades of Windows working just fine for the most part.
Yeah. Weird vibes.
*Weird vibe codes
Exactly
They’re going to be heroes when they fix Windows
Hope they fix it the same way spaying or neutering dogs is called fixing: Prevent it from propagating further.
windows is inherently broken. they can’t fix it.
That Win10 extended update program is great if you need it fyi
buys you a little extra time to move to linux
Massgrave + Win10 IOT LTSC enterprise would be a better play
Isn’t that exactly what the person you replied to is talking about?
The extended support program is the one-year extension for the consumer versions (Home and Pro) and it requires a mandatory Microsoft account and data harvesting. Win10 IOT LTSC is contractually obligated to be supported until 2032 - and conveniently has all the garbage included in the consumer versions removed.
How…Microsoft of them.
When do I get a calendar on my systray or whatever they call it on my other monitor?
