This has been complained about for-fucking-ever. Why'd they suddenly decide to do it now? They must be losing more customers than I realized.

Wow! They're finally doing the bare minimum.

Wow, what pioneers. What titans of the tech industry. So brave of them.

So when do we get to decide when the update happens? Hate coming into the office and seeing the 'lets get you started' screen for the 15th time.

that would have been a lot cooler before they pissed and shat all over their consumer base.

Linux:

You know shit is bad when something like this makes a headline.

I don’t even know what this is. Reboots have been once a month for a long time now.

I bet Microsoft has been sitting on this for a while so that they could pull it out when public sentiment was especially low. It has strong "speed-up loop" vibes.

For two updates?

Linux only requires 1...

It would be nice if Fedora did that as well.

Same energy as the time iphone added dual-sim support after android having that for years

I wonder when Microsoft will consider making windows not suck?

Rant:

I mean, people have been asking for better control of Windows updates since Windows XP, so that's like what? 25 years? It took them to realize that that's something customers wanted?

Having an operating system that does not suck should be on the very, very top of their priority list.

We're not concerned about features.

What we want is no AI, or opt-in AI only. We don't want your edge bullshit. I don't mind the browser itself. I don't mind that it comes pre-installed on Windows. That's perfectly fine.

But when you know people hate your browser so much that the only way you can get people to use it is by rewiring your other programs to sneakily launch edge?

And you keep moving the thing that disables that?

and re-enabling it with updates so that people have to go and find where it was enabled to disable it all over again?

And this happens two or more times a year?

Fuck you, Microsoft. Completely and totally fuck you. Fuck you to death. I hope you burn to the ground. I hope everyone in the building gets caught inside of it and burns to the ground with you.

I hope all of your software is completely lost, all of your source code is permanently destroyed, I hope that Mother Nature salts the Earth with you, and I hope that any person that has ever been a c-rank level manager at Microsoft or higher gets space rabies.

I hope all of that because you cannot understand the very, very simple concept of consent.

Microslop is a software rapist.

Which makes sense since Bill Gates is likely a rapist, and at least guaranteed to be a whoremonger and the kind of person who will infect his wife with an STD that he caught from a Russian whore and then try to sneakily give her drugs to cure them so that he doesn't get caught because he's a little bitty pussy boy who can't stand up to the pressure of dealing with the consequences of his own actions.

Once again, I don't hate the products themselves. I hate the fact that you're forcing them on us. Fucking stop. Consent is always key in everything that involves more than one person.