I am kinda glad they went to shit so quickly. If it were slow, I probably would never have gone fully Linux. Now, I have all 5 of my machines free of corporate spyware. I am having fun again configuring and learning. Thanks microslop! I needed the push.
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Too late. I've already left. Never again.
yeah nah. They're claiming a lot of shit. Whether or not it gets removed is another matter.
I fully expect their bullshit to stay everywhere, they're just gonna get quieter about it
Forever will be microslop. Scaling back doesn't mean removing. It's still essentially malware.
According to the headline, all they're saying is, "we will bother you less (the degree of which, we aren't clear), and we'll maybe think about what to do with recall."
Enjoying Bazzite.
Too late.
Major shit ~~shift~~
Oh, yes, I won. I've known for months. Microsoft have nothing to do with it anymore.
Three years late but thanks for giving me the push to switch
Prolific cannibal promises to review their choice in seasonings to be more tactful as they continue to feast on PC users' privacy, freedom and last scraps of digital dignity on a global scale.
I am sure that this empty promise of change has everything to do with their user empathy and absolutely nothing to do with their recent financial results which indicated how hollow their AI-slop-bullshit revenue growth was last quarter.
oh so Windows is good now?
As someone with a foot in Windows and Mac, they both suck for different reasons and you're trading pain in one for pain in the other.
Windows sucks because of all the stupid one drive and AI garbage. No, I don't want my desktop and tons of other directories in one drive, stop asking me. The constant migration of settings out of control panel is maddening. Windows 10 end of life is fine, but cutting off older PCs from windows 11 for "reasons" was an absolutely horrible choice.
Mac is fine if you do super basic computing, but if you want to do much of anything it's very annoying out of the box. Window management is annoying unless you get an app like magnet, the ribbon can't be displayed on dual monitors and there's no way of fixing the primary monitor, keyboard shortcuts are inconsistent across applications like command delete and keyboard shortcuts in general suck (command + shift + 3-5), the OS greatly dislikes network storage, etc etc. Macs were somewhat isolated from marketing needing a "new" OS every year until recently. Now they're in the change for the sake of things to list on the new OS page trap.
Linux isn't without fault, but my experience has been much more pleasant.
Linux has been the best option for 20 years. At least 10 years even for grandmas.
No.
We didn't win until I can remove it all from my computer.
We call that Linux here and you can start winning today!
You could have done that anytime. Linux is right there.
I wish I could put Linux on my work computer.
The piece of nuance every one of these threads seems to miss. I have software that literally only runs on windows. What do? Rather than talk about how to make Windows work better, the best you get is jump ship!
They keep claiming that and then proceeding anyways with maybe a short period of backtracking. I'll believe them when they've actually stayed backed off until the end of the ai bs. That said I'm never going back. I switched to Linux over 2 years ago in part because of the initial recall scandal.
Yeah this is what these companies do every time they get some heat. They never actually listen and fix their shit, they just back off and wait a couple of months until people are outraged about something else, then add it back in when they think nobody's looking. Rinse and repeat until everyone's too sick of hearing about it/tired of fighting it to continue.
I switched when XP came out. Microsoft started enshitifying then and never stopped.
Same here. Switched to Mint, now on Fedora. I've gotten used to the ecosystem and I much prefer it to Windows. Will never go back now.
But my left handed microscope scissors rat nail polishing encabrulator only works on windows 11 if it has AI! Whatever should I do?!!!
Rat flies out of the window nails, face ears all properly painted and polished.... Then the windows 11disk followed by the rest of the computer parts and the bat that did it all in.
Nobody has won, they're just going to the store to get some lube...
I won. I ditched Windows conpletely.
Alright, I’ll give you that… Welcome!
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Why would anyone suddenly trust Microslop? Trust is gone.
It's amazing that America somehow is destroying trust in itself from so many different directions right now, almost seems like a planned demolition, but I think it's more of a chaotic tragedy of errors due to horrible judgement. It's like the whole country got drunk on "American exceptionalism" (ie hubris) over the last 20 years, and here comes the hangover of the century.
america is fine. the problem is the us.
I'm Canadian. When we say "Americans" or "America" we mean people from the US.
It was absolutely planned, if not expressly planned for destroying trust. Planned for maximizing revenue, minimizing costs, for oppressing and dividing the population to exploit them and prevent a challenge to their corrupt systems, and so forth.
Also there's a big part of this that is intentional sabotage and manipulation by a wide network of chaos-creators that mostly seem to lead back to Putin. When a former-KGB kleptocrat steals and controls everything in the world's largest country and becomes effectively probably one of the world's richest men, and then starts playing 4d chess with all the world's other richest men, I guess it turns out you can probably cause a lot of chaos and quite possibly completely destroy the international global order.
I'm willing to bet that is one of Putin's goals, but it's not his only goal, and just because he's evidently accomplished it with gusto still doesn't mean Putin is actually capable of accomplishing all his other goals of building or being part of any sort of new world order, because this chaos only destroys and tears things down. He's got destruction down to a science, and I'm sure he thinks he can leverage that to create what he wants in the world, but he's failed at that and will continue to fail. But he has proven he can fuck things up pretty badly for the rest of us, whether we want to admit it or not, so, personally I'm willing to give him credit where credit is due.
The real question is, are we going to accept that what came before is irretrievably broken, and if we are willing to do that, what are we going to build in its place? Because with chaos comes opportunity, but those opportunities are few and limited. The chaos will continue, and the chaos can worsen. Significantly. If we're going to turn this around, we have to be smart about it. There are a lot of paths that lead to very bad places, and only a few that have good endings. And you'd better believe that Putin and other forces of chaos are still going be trying to sabotage those too, even more aggressively as they realize their own dreams will never come to fruition.
I think we've got to start by rooting out all the elements of corruption that have allowed this to happen, or else anything we try to build in its place will be built on quicksand. What exactly those are? I have a bunch of opinions, but that's where the debate will start to happen, and I think we're going to need to start having those conversations before we can really address this. We need to establish our philosophical foundations and values, agree that we all value human life, that we value all lived human experiences, and that all humans are created equal, and I think we can go from there to try to define and refine exactly what those things mean and how we're going to implement those values into building a civilization that we actually want to live in and that other people want to live in too, where we can all agree on these things and find ways to pursue equality and happiness for all.
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Modern corpo playbook.
- Go too far with something wildly unpopular on purpose
- Everyone complains
- Dial it back slightly
- "We won!"
The title of the article is very misleading. Microsoft has not said they'll be removing AI features already deployed on Windows. All it says is they're reevaluating AI features going forward and streamlining the experience whatever that means. It sounds like they're looking to rename unpopular unwanted feature like Recall instead of scrapping it. The whole thing is just a PR move to placate the disgruntled masses. Also they said nothing about intrusive ads, telemetry, or rapidly declining stability of overall system. Recent update literally broke windows explorer, task bar and start menu. One thing for certain, Microsoft will not stop using Copilot to develop their software in house. That would be admitting Ai tools are useless and that would sink Microsoft stock even further than it already has.
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(Same difference)
It will continue to dominate the market (along with apple) as long as it is the default OS on new pcs.
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