![]() But the vast majority of the time, it is customizable as I desire, while being rock solid / stable, rarely needing reboots to apply updates, and when I go to play games, they just work, and they run super well. Upon a clean install, there were some nuisances that needed cleaned up. I suspect there's more than a complex set of opinions around Windows, Windows 10, Windows 11, using Windows for gaming, thinking it's all fine, thinking lots of things suck, thinking it is a great operating system, thinking it's a shame it does things outside of the ideal scope of an operating system.Īnecdotally, most of the time I don't see the annoying things on my primary Windows 10 Professional machine. > Yet, the people who use it (mostly gamers), seem to think it's all fine and the operating system is great.Ī lot of assumptions in such a short sentence. For example, automatically connecting to a remote computer, downloading, installing and running code that controls the computer, without any user intervention. Wikipedia's definition is "any method of controlling a computer from a remote location". I use the term "remote administration" in a general sense, not only in the "remote desktop" sense. (HN readers or similar being an exception.) Computer owners born into this new world of always-on, uncontrollable remote administration would have little reason to know any different. As an original Windows 3.11 user (LAN-only, no internet), it's amazing to see how far from sanity things have gone. Customers have about as much control over what Microsoft decides it wants to do as they do over so-called botnets. No doubt the amount of data that Microsoft exfiltrates about Windows users is at least as much as any "botnet" would, probably much more. ![]() If a third party other than Microsoft remotely administered something like this it would probably be labeled a "botnet". Windows is only really moving forwards at all due to momentum, MS would rather be concentrating on other things that are more profitable for less hassle & questionable press. They'd keep something of Windows on their console, but that is minute in comparison because it only needs to be the core & they control the hardware selection, and again that is just a vehicle with which to sell a subscription service to the end user and licensing/SDKs to developers. They could let Linux & Apple deal with all that crap, and just sell cloud services, Office/SQL/Exchange licences, etc. It would save them all the hassle of hardware compatibility, dealing with manufactures, being blamed for instability cause by bad drivers (on top of instability cause by bad Windows that is their fault!). If it wouldn't look terrible to just dump Windows, I'm fairly sure they would do so soon if they hadn't already. Back to the server, and SQL Server runs on Linux these days or (even better for them) Azure-native. In homes and offices Windows is just a vehicle for Office and Visual Studio, they are pushing people more towards the online office variants of Office (users therefore becoming dependent on a subscription for access to apps and storage/backups). Azure is the new baby there – they don't care what server OS you run as long as you run it on their kit. Windows is not longer the cash-cow it once was even on the server. > but the failing culture within Microsoft is unable to recognise they are driving users off their own product. The Apple premium makes much less sense now, and I am not sure if I am gonna go with Apple for my next phone or computer purchase. So while I would be happy to spend an extra X$ for a "no ad" product compared to a "with ad" product, I wouldn't feel the same about a "low ad" product. ![]() So at least in my view, the gap between Apple and Microsoft in this regard is not "way ahead", it is "slightly ahead and getting closer". For me at least, it moves the service from the "no ad" category to the "with ad" category, and I hate the latter category. Just replace Apple and Microsoft with Netflix and imagine how we would feel if Netflix started showing some-not too many and not too outrageous-ads. The gap between "no ad" and "low ad" feels much bigger the gap between "low ad" and "more ad". I would love to be proven wrong, but I would also be surprised if I do.ģ. ![]() They have to show growth quarter after quarter, so in all likelihood, like we have seen with other companies, it's only gonna get worse. Microsoft didn't start with shameless ads, and I don't think Apple would stop at current ad levels. It worked for Apple I guess, but only in a shortsighted way.Ģ. Why is (or was?) not having iCloud set up showing up as a permanent notification badge over Settings? It was a while ago, but I remember I subscribed just to shut iOS up. Apple Ads are incessant about their own services. it sounds like Apple is still coming out way aheadġ. ![]()
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