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Comment Re:Wow (Score 1) 59

>"What a shit show Microsoft has become."

I don't remember it NOT being. Although I guess it depends on comparisons to which point in the show.

And I thought I heard they were 'listening to their users' and trying to undo some of their "mistakes". Hmm. Any word yet of removing forced cloud logins? Ads in the menus? Changing browser choice/settings without permission? Removing artificial hardware requirements? Opting out of "AI"?

I disagree. Windows 7 was a quality OS. If one wants to go under the hood, even the Windows 8 kernel was great, even if the Metro UI sucked. Problem is that from that point, Microsoft didn't know how to leave well enough alone

They could have done a few things:

  1. 1. For the traditional desktop Windows, take the 8 kernel, put the Windows 7 Aero interface on top of it, maybe change the start button from a flag to the 8 Window, but other than that, leave it alone!
  2. 2. For touch PCs, have Metro if mouse is disabled, but otherwise, stay w/ the Windows 7 UI.
  3. 3. For Windows Phone, have the Metro interface

From that point, the main work Microsoft should have done should have been on the phones - porting as many apps as possible to Windows Phone 8, so that that would have had a better showing in the market. Instead of acquiring Nokia

Comment Re:"Force-updating" (Score 2) 59

These days, it's literally not even *safe* to fail to upgrade to the latest version of whatever software. Software developers must continue to update to the latest version of libraries they use, in order to keep their software from being vulnerable to previously-discovered, and patched, defects. Even Microsoft, with all its billions, can't afford to maintain every old version of their software, protecting them all against security defects.

The days of upgrading when you want to, are a relic of the 1990s.

If there was a way of only doing the security updates, but preventing any other updates, such as the removal of Wordpad, or the alteration of Notepad and Paint, I'd be fine w/ it. One security practices is to always have the latest security patches, so I'm fine w/ that. However, I don't want them pushing an alternate Outlook version on me every release, or mucking around w/ the user interface of a package just so that their programmers aren't just twiddling their thumbs

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