By releasing windows 12?
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"Improving", the agentic OS thing? Or did they step back from that?
Fire your current dipshit in chief, issue abject apologies and realise you peaked with 7.
Hilarious
one quiet “merp merp” from a three-foot tuxedo in the back of an otherwise completely silent and unimpressed audience
Too late
By putting out shitty updates that break basic, critical thing? Like email and chat?
If they would produce a super stable, backward compatible system without "AI", without tons of dark patterns and with a traditional UI... let's say, a Windows 7 reboot with compatibility to modern software and released under a Free license... then I would honestly take a look.
"super stable, backward compatible system without "AI"" Sounds like Linux 😁
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why even bother, windows isnt even 10% of their income. Just milk that cow and try to not let everyone know that azure is all running linux.
They shouldn't have done their update today then. My fonts look like ass.
I hate Windows, always did, always will. My final trial with that garbage system was last April when I installed Fedora on a bootable thumb drive. I might be one of the few people left who couldn't care less what microsoft does. Here's hoping they only make decisions that make people trust them less.
I haven't had any trust since in Windows since about mid Windows 7 and that was probably unfounded.
Bs. This is a marketing campaign at best.
They are failing.
Way too late, at least for me.
I've switched over to CachyOS on three devices. My main laptop, a spare laptop(for the wife to try), and a gaming PC. All three are great and easy to use. No stupid pop ups, no AI, and I don't have to worry about it not booting up compared to Windows(which this was the opposite 10 years ago!).
At this point even if they make a great OS and call it Windows 12 I have zero faith that they won't reverse and make Windows 13 terrible.
At least with Linux I have a dozen or so options to choose from and they all work just fine. So if CachyOS becomes terrible(doubt) then I'll switch to something else.
At this point Windows needs to go above and beyond and be stable for YEARS and multiple versions before I switch back, which big doubt.
It's definitely fucking not doing that. It may say that it's going to work hard on it's problems but like any 'too big to fail' monopolistic piece of shit company, they're going to continue doing whatever the fuck they want and ignoring their end users.