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The_Interloper

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The responses on the Windows Central article are negative enough, but the replies on the original X post are just BRUTAL.

Seriously, what is Microsoft even thinking? What with the telemetry, privacy issues, forced updates, Recall fiasco, Copilot everywhere, OneDrive and Edge nagging, compulsory MS accounts...do they even care about how Windows is perceived at this point? It's as if they are actively trying to make people hate it more and more.

There are still things I like having a PC for - the power to cost ratio, for one, in desktops. Need Windows for that. Flexibility of hardware? Windows. Touchscreens and pen input with a proper OS? Windows. Legacy software support? Windows. Gaming (not my bag, but...)? Windows.
(And before people say "switch to Linux", no thanks. Been there, done that, not for me.)

But man...what are they smoking in Redmond? This is their CORE PRODUCT, their OS. At least Apple's stupidity is mainly confined to making overpriced iPhone socks. Why do MS keep doubling down like this?

With Apple's low-cost MacBook on the horizon, it baffles me they think continuing to ens**ttify Windows like this is a solid business strategy. On the consumer side it'll only be hardcore gamers left if they're not careful.
 
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Microsoft is clearly out of touch to its customers, whether we're talking about enterpries or consumers.

Wasn't he the same person who said that we won't need keyboards or mice as input devices in the near future.
did you read the reviews, they are just like us but instead of Tahoe they type MS!
 
I am not surprised. Operation Stargate pretty much sums it all up, doesn't it?

edit: Norway is building a Stargate in Narvik, as well
"a 100,000 NVIDIA GPU AI Gigafactory", so apparently Apple macs are not considered. Despite Apple Intelligence ;)
 
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What if the old is morphing into a new paradigm? The user is the product, and no longer just a customer.
That could explain the direction Microsoft is taking, in my humble opinion
This happened a long time ago with Facebook and social media and companies like Google and Microsoft quickly followed suit.

Almost all tech companies consider the user the product and it’s advertiser’s their customers.

Apple is the only one that hasn’t completely caved.

It is really a shame. I never loved MS but they weren’t so blatantly doing so many anti consumer things at the same time.
 
The entire company is focused on justifying the billions they're dumping into Copilot and OpenAI. Everything else is being subsumed by that drive - it's why prices are rising while quality is dropping and everything else is being hollowed out.
 
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I use dual PCs at work, and the Win11 lappy is just so much more enjoyable than the Win10 mini-pc.

It's a Dell XPS 15 whatsit, and it seems (unfortunate) that they did not test RF interference . . . regularly borks my BT connection from my Mini to the Anker SoundCore!
 
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