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The tech giant says it's listening to user feedback.

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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Definition of an abusive relationship. Treated you bad for years but they do one small nice thing and they want endless praise. They're just going to go back to hurting you tomorrow

[–] Tharkys@lemmy.wtf 5 points 1 week ago

No baby, I'm so sorry, it won't happen again. I promise!

[–] TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 week ago

"reducing unnecessary Copilot entry points" in apps like Snipping Tool, Photos, Widgets, and Notepad.

So not only are they admitting these were pointless additions, but their choice of words implies that other pointless Sloppilot entry points remain by choice.

Something must be happening to make them alter course a bit, but it's not serious enough for them to commit to any major changes yet.

[–] Tharkys@lemmy.wtf 8 points 1 week ago

Too Little and way too late. Microslop is sloppy slop.

[–] Specter@feddit.org 7 points 1 week ago

I have responded to Microslop preemptively by abandoning their software and adopting Linux.

This March marked my first year of Linux, can’t see myself going back.

[–] ItsMyVault101@piefed.social 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

yes they do but only after about 20% of Windows users decided to leave everything MS related behind.

[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

And the other 80% only stayed because they were either not confident enough in their technical abilities to switch or had no choice (environment would need to be re-certified, software doesn't work well with wine, boss said no).

[–] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The other 80% are probably older folks that don’t know any better, nor have the expertise to install Linux, and the rest are people locked into Windows because of work.

[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 2 points 1 week ago

Pretty much the two groups that I had in mind but I wanted to generalize a bit.

[–] pulsey@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

where does that 20% come from?

[–] ItsMyVault101@piefed.social 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

About 60% of people using Windows now, 3 month ago it were around 80%

[–] k_rol@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Where are those stats coming from? Steam?

[–] ItsMyVault101@piefed.social 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I've read it on a site called windowsforum.com some time ago. I understand your scepsis, thats my fault, sorry it's not 3 months but 3 years decline and in the article it was something about Windows has with 60% now the fewest users it ever had after the end of Windows 10 and constant AI implementations in every MS app possible.

Also I remember that 88% of all useres used Windows 10 about 2 or 3 years ago but I don't know where I've seen this survey, maybe it was steam.

[–] k_rol@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago

Oh ok, too bad you don't have the link anymore.

Thanks for your reply.