it always puzzles me, when companies in trouble, cook up strategies to get back on top by making things worse for their customers. when has that ever worked?

but, any movie is available on pirated sites, even without stealing drives, still movies are being played at theatres...

MS just can't learn from their past mistakes, how many times have they been bitten in the past by just letting application run/install automatically when plugging in devices, media, visiting websites, clicking (non-application) applications?

These 'improvements' will get so many reviews, redesigns, input from different departments, that in the end they will fix nothing and you should be happy it didn't make things even worse.

AI fights back

you don't even know steam is using proton-wine or not, you just click the play button and that's it.

...that don't know this side of Microsoft, i think it is important to keep these stories alive. it explains so much of the current pc landscape, and these are the articles you can point to when somebody asks/says - but why is windows so dominant on the pc/desktop if is better?

what do you expect when the costs to manufacture their products rises and they have such small profit margins?

as if all this vibe-AI coding, and what have you, wasn't lazy enough already, it was aparently still too much effort some for people.

"...shipping a product with a bug that breaks this functionality says more about Microsoft's approach to quality than anything else"

been like this for more than 40 years

..to accept setting Edge as your default browser when windows asks you for the 100th time!

i had one too, and it was a great medium, and the external drive with both scsi and parallel port made it easy to use on many computers. one of the main uses was sharing files between my pc and amiga, i also took it to work where we had internet (didn't have it at home yet) and loaded it up with all the latest redhat rpm package updates and other new open source software.

for now...

They should use AI to solve the energy and global warming problem. Instead of contributing to it.

When I was in college (in 1995), this one guy was going on about a free OS that was incredible. All I could think of was, sure, a free OS that is good, what a joke is that going to be. So together with another friend we decided to install this free OS and have a good laugh.
The laugh was on us, it was indeed incredible, offering multitasking, multi user, memory protection, the cli was so powerful, and on top of all that, all the code was open.