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Comment Re: XAML and TSWIPM (Score 1) 92

Any MS UI designers and devs who gave a damn about efficient human interfaces left during the development of Win8 IMO. Things got slightly better with Win10 but It's been mainly downhill since then. The kind of UI fuckups and fundamental design flaws MS keep making would get any college CS student an F grade.

Comment Re:He can move on, can't he? (Score 1) 81

"It did not guarantee that she could be resuscitated"

Once you die from cancer the secondaries have usually spread everywhere so until a seriously good cure for fatal cancers has been found then there's no point reviving her. Given his health I suspect he'll be long dead before that technology comes to pass.

Comment Clippy on steroids (Score 2) 26

Clearly this is what the world was asking for in Windows 11. Never mind fixing bugs like the bottom of windows getting stuck under the task bar and having to faff around to resize them (hey, maybe allow the task bar to be moved!) , the "Oops no internet" setup error loop even when windows had connected to wifi in the previous screen and so on.

No, lets introduce Son Of Clippy!

FFS, get a grip MS.

Comment You've missed the elephant (Score 4, Insightful) 73

LLMs make a lot of mistakes but the tech bros don't care - they're using them for all sorts of things including supposed self driving cars. If the AI fucks up and causes issues , well , on appendix section 16, sub section A, paragraph 21 there'll be a clause explicitly exempting the AI company from any responsibility and in jurisdictions where that disclaimer is void then what the hell, they've made billions anyway and they'll just settle out of court.

Comment Re:"Windows is evolving into an agentic OS," (Score 1) 68

Also its worth noting that because Macs are *nix underneath even your average mac laptop could in theory be used as a productive server too. Just like Llinux (and every other *nix) there's none of the artificial desktop-server divide MS introduced into Windows order to generate $$$ for upgrades.

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