Microsoft Ruined Windows

Microsoft is ruining Windows. It just keeps getting worse. Whether it be their insistence on AI and cloud garbage, or just a general sense of incompetence, I can’t help but feel like the operating system has seen better days.

Normally I wouldn’t care too much, big tech ruins another thing, whatever.

But the problem is Microsoft has such a dominant market share that you can’t really escape them.

I guess unless you use a Mac or something I don’t know.

[knowledgehusk]

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[TechGamesAU]

Regarding W10 being the ‘last windows’, this wasn’t just a comment from an employee, it was in actual official MS marketing. Their advert video stated ‘your kids will use windows 10 and their kids will use it too’, implying multiple generations of people will use W10.

[SuperLifestream]

1) Create a product
2) dominate the market
3) make your product worse over time
4) sell "upgrades" to make it better (back to the way it was)

[Undeemiss]

Windows 11 was actually the reason I started dual-booting Linux. ...It's also the reason I stopped dual-booting, because I quickly realized I had absolutely no desire to use Windows ever again.

[iclubsealz]

My normie friends have been asking me how to install, “the Linux”. When people who only know how to turn on a computer and open a browser start asking about Linux, Microsoft has a problem.

[ieatiron]

I see Windows as a toaster. When the toaster starts asking me to log in, starts taking my personal information, switching button placement, running commercials before letting me start the process, renaming functions that still does the exact same thing, hiding settings behind 7 button presses. All this, only to toast only one side. Then I'm getting a new toaster with a vengeance.

[devkit]

When they said "Windows 10 will be the last Windows, " what they meant is that Windows 10 would be the last Windows that people would want to use.

[BlumiTheGhost]

the craziest thing is that nowadays it's actually easier to set up Linux than to debloat Windows 11

[stefmyt]

Been using Linux on the desktop for 4 years now. Every time I'm forced to do tech support for a friend or family member and have to interact with Windows, I remember why I switched in the first place.

[aphoxema]

It only took 22 years but Microsoft finally convinced me to switch to Linux

[Ren-bobj]

Modern tech: making 20 years ago seem like the best thing ever

[SpottedHares]

Microsoft seems to forget that we don’t want an operating system…. We want to just use our computer and every time we have to put even a little effort and be reminded we have an operating system is makes us hate that we have an operating system.

[josephsager]

I recently found out you can't uninstall Edge, which is insane, because Internet Explorer being pre-installed in Windows and unable to be uninstalled is what got Microsoft an anti-trust lawsuit.
A bunch of threads online say you can't uninstall Edge because the OS requires it, but that's refuted by the talking point that Edge is built on Chromium.
At the very least I should be able to Disable it like I'm able to Disable apps on my Android phone that can't be uninstalled.

[Panimal]

I hope they don't ruin doors, next. 😔

[krykry]

The funniest thing about current state of Windows?
The fact that users moving to Linux is actually worse than people pirating windows. It would really hurt their ecosystem.

[loganstrait]

Why tf would copy, paste, and rename be in "more options"? Just boggles the mind.

[HackCausality]

Man I miss being excited about new versions of Windows. Remember how awesome Windows 95 was? How slick Windows XP seemed? How refined and focused Windows 7 was?

[mbunds]

Ruined? Oh, they've barely begun. I never imagined a company would work so hard to make its product worse.

[bobowon]

what annoys me most is that I set up windows for businesses, for professional users, and now it's getting harder and harder to use because the way microsoft demands you use windows doesn't line up with how a lot of businesses use windows. It's a nightmare to stage a computer for a business that only uses local accounts.

[bobvance-]

God damn dude. I hate the "WE NEED TO FINISH SETTING UP YOUR PC". It used to give me a panic attack because I thought that meant windows somehow got reset.

Also, all of a sudden my laptop is running like shit because some process is taking up 30-50% of my CPU and I have no idea how to fix it, as it involves going through and finding the process ID to disable the blah blah blah.

Thanks Microsoft. My $4000 laptop is almost a paperweight until I decide to factory reset my computer.