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This is an unforced error on Microsoft's part. The latest in a long line. But I'm not even surprised these days, just disappointed. I must have just had rose-t
by Multicomp 3y ago
This is an unforced error on Microsoft's part. The latest in a long line. But I'm not even surprised these days, just disappointed.
I must have just had rose-tinted glasses when I was young, but I totally believed the 'force augmentation' PR Microsoft offered with their Windows XP tour and their SkyDrive initial offering and their Office 2010 ribbon. I was young enough to not get why people complained so much about those switches. Grow up, toolbars are old and boring, this is cool, life is change, yada yada.
Now? After the confusing Windows 8, the killing of WP7, the spyware of W10, the forced updates of W10, the loss of fundamental human interface guideline compliance and look & feel by new-age UX designers who have forgotten the lessons of the past searching to be the next not-Apple of W11, (I could go on) I've grown so sick of Microsoft's current direction that I've apparently clipped over to the other side of the screen.
Now, I don't care. I miss what I see and saw as good. I let my inertia keeping me using Onenote and familiar tools. But I'm not in love with MS like I used to be, I had to let go of MS fanboyism to hang on to "fight for the users" fanboyism.
Luckily the Year of the Linux Desktop will arrive shortly, any second now, and we will be fine (EDIT: /s). In the meantime, I've had to treat my computers as tools, not hobby projects...it's too depressing otherwise.
- deafpolygon 3y ago> Year of the Linux Desktop will arrive shortly I think we've been saying this since at least 1990.
- jamespo 3y agoWe have tablets and phones now all running unix variants
- ziddoap 3y ago>Year of the Linux _Desktop_ will arrive shortly I don't consider my phone nor my tablet to be a "desktop".
- threePointFive 3y agoIn my circles, personal Windows PCs have gone almost entirely away. Chromebooks are massively popular, but most people do everything on a phone/tablet. In the PC market, gaming is the only thing keeping Windows relevant, and each Proton update shrinks that market segment.
- ziddoap 3y agoSure, lots more people (maybe most? I don't know) use phones/tablets in place of a desktop. I still don't call my phone a desktop. As for what is keeping Windows relevant, I would bet gaming is just a blip on the radar. Corporations, especially larger ones not in the tech market, like to use Windows for user machines (also applies to governments).
- cmoski 3y agoToo right. Almost all of the software I need for work runs only Windows.
- _Algernon_ 3y agoIt's bound to happen eventually.
- Multicomp 3y agoSorry, I should have included a /s, my bad! But yes, i'm not holding my breath.