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[Ellis]

You could fucking doing it in versions before windows 11. Microsoft developers are fucking retarded.

I used to have my taskbar at the top of my screen. Not because I liked it, but because I could.

I've just realised that also makes me slightly retarded. Difference is, I had the choice to be retarded. MS has taken that away from me.

 

[Phobos Base]

It's been however many years and they still haven't fixed the bug where it randomly highlights the entire file name if you're trying to rename something that's synched to Onedrive, so I'm not surprised.

 

[spons]

You could fucking doing it in versions before windows 11. Microsoft developers are fucking retarded.

They rewrote it in fucking React. Windows 11 is basically transitioning to an AI-powered Web app.

 

[Drew1440]

It's not like they can't, they just wont. Putting the taskbar at the top probably prevents them from data mining in some way. At one point Microsoft were happy for you to customise the OS, from their wacky desktop themes which they bundled, to even the boot screen. Now you can only select from a preset colour scheme.

I blame Facebook for this, for killing MySpace and the ability to customise your profile in favour of a dismal white/blue interface.

 

[Dice]

Windows has fallen to absolute dog shit and MS overall is well on their way. They always had goofy stuff going on but they retained their core products. That started failing with Win 10 and now in the Win 11 era it has fallen over the edge. Half the computers at work are Windows 11 and I am just astonished at how bad they are, how buggy, how many features were taken away, how many things got rearranged to some nonsensical thing. It isn't even that I'm just used to old Windows. I am familiar with several operating systems and even within those have plenty of experience navigating different software platforms and their differing approaches to UIs. Windows 11 seems fundamentally out of step with any sort of consistent reasoning or awareness of what people will want to be doing all the time.

Over the last year I've basically been using an iPad as a laptop and it was so nice that I only recently turned on my PC for the first time since March. I think my next computer will be a Mac. With the gaming hardware industry being fucked so hard by AI development, perhaps a side effect will be gaming finishing this process of breaking free from Windows exclusivity. It has been progressing pretty substantially and Valve is now making the biggest pushes yet. Apple also seems to be recognizing opportunity and have been securing more and more developers to actually give them a chance.

 

[Davevil]

another useless topic to criticize Microsoft

 

[OmegaSupreme]

If only they had the budget.

 

[Three]

Yet they can bloat Notepad with useless features literally no one fucking asked for.

Everybody has been asking for AI in notepad! /s

 

[spons]

Everybody has been asking for AI in notepad! /s

AI is the new "every application will eventually be able to send e-mails".