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.