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At the start of the New Year, with no warning, Microsoft gives its flagship productivity app a name change and a huge price increase. Why would the company make this mess? I asked Copilot, who explained it very well.

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[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Debloated and castrated W10 is not as shitty as older systems if you look at it now, PowerShell is kinda neat and useful, standalone Office apps are slowly getting better and the corruption of their interfaces happened more than a decade ago in Vista times. I like Win+Shift+S screenshot shortcut, Win+arrow movement of windows, middle-mouse scrolling that I can't correctly emulate on Linux. Their driver storage and search made plug-n-play less of a joke than it was before, like 50% of the time you don't even need to look for drivers. Your fresh installation media usb stick can also serve for in-place update if you click its' Setup.exe while booted, and it helped me to unfuck a lot of borked systems. All of these come wirh a lot of shit, but, like, w10 era before co-pilot was a golden age for Win PCs, and it also brought a shared subscription between their xbox consoles and pcs. And if they worked on top of that, improved it, I could've stayed there. But they did everything to make me switch to Linux, and with further downgrades, ads and neuro-bullshit I'm happy I got the best MS did and wasn't there to experience their products at their worst.

[–] chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 5 points 4 weeks ago

I was a loyal Windows user for nearly 30 years and they pushed me to Linux, too. The upside is that Linux is really great.

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

They are allergic to anything that is working well.

[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 weeks ago

Are they allergic to pineapple pieces on pizza tho 🤔

That'd probably decide this decade-old question.