Microsoft sinks even lower

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Timestamps:
0:00 wherefore dost thou watcheth??
0:11 Updates blocked for Win11 PCs with add-ons
1:54 Win11 driver blocks registry workarounds
3:13 Intel 13th, 14th gen CPUs stability issue
5:22 QUICK BITS INTRO
5:36 Android Find my Device
6:11 Google Lookup on Pixels
6:42 RTX 5090, 5080 coming in Q4?
7:15 Windows on Arm beats Apple - Microsoft
8:07 Spotify AI playlists

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[Bluexx]

Microsoft: "Why no one upgrade to Windows 11?"
Also Microsoft:

[d.wolfin]

Wait, are you telling me if I install a certain third party software, windows will voluntarily stop trying to forcibly update my OS

[samwood]

Windows blocking “unreliable high crash rate software” is highly ironic

[konberner]

Literally true that even MS doesn't trust MS. There was a demo Satya did just last year where he talked about being able to pay extra to keep some of your files in Teams in a "special super secure area" when your business secrets are very important. When I asked what that means for all the rest of our private business data, or if we don't pay the extra, there was no response.

[Clawthorne]

Well that "User Choice Protection Driver" sure smells like another lawsuit brewing.
Me, a EU citizen: "I want to modify the OS during install so that Firefox is preinstalled, and Win11 is set to use FF as the default browser from the beginning."
Microsoft: "Hey, you're not allowed to do that! You must first click through 15 settings and dismiss at least one popup begging you to use Edge. >:["

[TheRealDrae]

"software stops users from updating" splendid, I'm downloading it then.

[THE-X-Force]

Remember when you used to be able to customize Windows they way you wanted to? When MS even encouraged it?

[AllieRX]

Microsoft is hellbent on pushing their longtime customers away to Linux.

[fireloop]

WHY ARE ALL THOSE BIG COMPANIES SHOVING AI INTO PLACES NOONE ASKED FOR ?? I DONT WANT NO AI TO HELP MY FIND MY SETTINGS, FILES OR BROWSER HISTORY NOR DO I NEED AI TO ADD SONGS TO MY PLAYLIST THAT I MADE SPECIFICALLY FOR SONGS THAT I LIKE

[rickotap]

The user-choice-protection-driver is the most ministry-of-truth-thing I'ver heard today

[AstonJay]

Also, the recent articles that came out that Google won't let Android users switch off their Bluetooth chips on their phones because it's "critical to their tracking network" for "lost" devices... Yeah, no thanks.

[Tall_Order]

I guess this explains why suddenly a month ago I noticed PDF files opening in edge, when I never use that terrible browser at all.

[BigMano]

"blocking unreliable high crash software" is such a see through lie. They don't like that people can disable their backdoor tracking and logging that stays on even if you disable all the toggles they give you in the UI

[ScottGrammer]

"Security and performance issues." That's Microsoftspeak for "to protect the children."

[Mikewee]

Remember when Microsoft used to be sued over excessive reliance on default browser settings ?

[High-Tech-Geek]

"Lookup" is useless. Most spammers spoof the number they call from to appear as if it's coming from your local area code, while the real number is entirely shielded by the phone companies that all allow this behavior.

[ShiroKage]

Microsoft, STOP MESSING UP THE UI SO I DON'T HAVE TO USE APPS THAT RESTORE REMOVED FUNCTIONS FOR THE LOVE OF GOD! How can the UI of a professional operating system degrade so freaking fast????

[Wichitan]

Recently I hit an 'upgrade Edge' browser screen with only one option: *Upgrade Edge.* There was no *Back* button, no *Not now* button, nothing. It seems that Microsoft is increasingly adopting a 'my way or no way' attitude towards their users.

[thetiminatorrr]

You KNOW that "user protection" meant Microsoft was protecting itself from the user and not the other way around. Dammit, Microsoft!

[kingofutopia]

Appreciate the Microsoft efforts to increase Linux desktop adoption