I remember reading that plan and being shocked about how good it sounded. And then they did the exact opposite of every single thing they promised, which I'm sure endeared themselves to all their enterprise customers.

So sure, I welcome Microsoft's attempts to finally drag itself back into relevancy, but they've got a massive self-inflicted foot wound that's gonna complicate matters.

*rename course.

There, fixed it. 😁

Lmfao they “removed” LLM bullshit from Notepad by removing the Copilot branding and making it less prominent.

LLM.

In Notepad.

“Fixed” with… product branding and marketing revisions.

Get the fuck out of here, Microslop.

It doesn't say that it actually does. Just knows.

Gamers rise up moment

Yeah. 60% more responsive for something infamous for taking multiple seconds to launch is depressingly bad. That's "not even trying" levels of improvement.

The start menu should open essentially instantly (excluding optional animations) – 100 ms is good, 200 ms is somewhat adequate. They're aiming for somewhere between 400 and 1200 ms.

I hope for them that they underpromise and overdeliver because this does not inspire confidence.

If you must use Windows OpenShell is your friend.

It is the last windows I needed.

They couldn't cram as many ads as they wanted into it.

The same that happened to 640k of memory

That will be the last Windows I'll use. When windows 10 stopped working then I'll switch to Linux full time.

Different management.

Well never upgraded to 11.. So...

Windows users will be soon, for the first time ever, able to put the task bar on any edge of the screen, imagine that for customization.

Exactly. Too fucking late.

I switched to Linux two years ago, never looked back and will never ever spend my own money on Microsoft products again. They violated my trust so I abandoned them.

To be fair, using react for it was just an odd decision to begin with.

If you're happy on Linux, stay on Linux. This is Microsoft's "I can change baby, I swear" play. Just like they did after Windows 8. And Windows Vista. And Windows ME.

Surely they have learned their lessons and will never intentionally tank their product in the name of profit again. Surely this time.

Aww

More like "aww yeah"

Lol. Me too. I mean, I've been running primarily Linux for decades, now this single press release will have me watching for Windows 13 with interest. (This is hopefully obviously sarcasm - meant only to give you a laugh and maybe help you feel chill about whatever you do for your next OS.)

Just stay on Linux. Microslop won't actually fix anything.

We’re truly better off where we are

Vendor lock in and government bribery.

Helping Israel commit genocide, for one.

To be fair old HP laserjets are still good printers 20 years later.. Newer models? Trash

They figure once they have a captive audience, anything short of killing the hostage is fair game.

'Say what you will about tech billionaires, but when their wrong they really know how to double down and lose their market share'...

imagine if every pc got pre-installed with an ISO that asks "windows or linux" before installing anything instead of defaulting to windows like they do now. that would be awesome

Let's not forget that Win7 was almost 25% as responsive as Win2k3, which could even hold a candle to GNOME.

And just like everything since windows xp, it’s a an iterative change from the last version with arbitrary things that are broken and only about 3/4 of the way through the product’s life do the features improve to the around the level of promise that was initially made, save for the stuff that’s been removed or intentionally broken to stifle interoperability, or stuffed with advertising.