"highly regarded old school bullet-proof publications like Washington Post"

They may have been highly respected a decade ago. No longer.

Nobody gonna mention how this is just a reverse-engineered Severance?

Someone explain to me how you continue running a company that's spending more than twice what it takes in.

"managed to complete just 26.2% of hands-on coding tasks and 44.9% of technical management decisions"

Apparently it ain't my job they're coming for.

Still want us back in the office?

Well, there's this recent study.

...by wasting your employees' time and making them annoyed to even be there and less efficient, while simultaneously prompting the ones with more marketable skills to update their resumes. Genius!

Not legally.

The source code release – prior to the deletion yesterday – has been a somewhat bumpy ride. The initial release had a custom license, the Winamp Collaborative License (WCL) Version 1.0, containing the clause:

No Forking: You may not create, maintain, or distribute a forked version of the software.

...strikes again.

"I never thought they'd eat MY face!", said the member of the Leopards Eating Faces Party.

When they finally "improve" the Start Menu, Taskbar, right-click options, etc., to the point where third party utilities can't revert it to something resembling useful behavior, that's when I join the rest of my colleagues and switch to a Mac. Nice job breaking it, heroes.

How much did they pay to get this posted on /.?

The amount of third party utilities and registry hacks I have to install on my new Windows machines in order to restore the functionality that Microsoft has taken away gets bigger and bigger with every new release.

So, yeah, Windows 11 - Bad.

Well, there goes the last vestige of credibility to the belief that the wealthy are smarter than you.

...breaking any useful functionality on the taskbar and chasing the Mac user interface that literally zero Mac users will switch for?

Well, that's nice.