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Comment by soraminazuki | Hacker News Reader

The OS automatically downloading HP crapware is already bad enough even if I had one of their printers. But this is a new low.

It's sad how the most popular desktop operating system sees users as nothing more than targets for exploitation. It wasn't this bad even in the EEE days.

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> To be clear, not all users are affected. Our test Windows 10 PC was far too busy suggesting that we should take a look at Copilot to bother with the HP Smart app nonsense.

The author seems to agree.

> Our test Windows 10 PC was far too busy suggesting that we should take a look at Copilot

I suspect that's because copilot adoption is low - to no surprise since it errors often and steals people's code.

The issue is not if the software is bad or good.

You likely aren’t even referring to the right product. Microsoft 365 Copilot is not GitHub Copilot, but good on you for getting your snark in.

The GP is correct though. It steals your code.

And it does error quite often

I don't know. I don't use it. I'm not even using GitHub for my primary software development.

You need a GitHub account but you don’t need to use GitHub otherwise (e.g. for source control) in order to use Copilot.

> It wasn't this bad even in the EEE days.

This phrasing seems to imply that we are no longer in the EEE days.

This is late stage EEE, or the fabled final 4th E: Exploit.

M̶o̶s̶t̶ ̶p̶o̶p̶u̶l̶a̶r̶ desktop operating system

Most used desktop operating system. There, fixed it for you.

Most endured desktop operating system...

And yet there are so many good alternatives... Never understood why people put up with it

It’s apparently a bug. Now, the QA on Windows Update is another topic.

There is no QA when the team is no longer around, and devs are supposed to make up for it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Surface/comments/3s14un/just_a_remi...

It seems they mostly gave up caring about software quality?

As someone that got burned with the whole WinRT stuff, and eventually returned to distributed computing, I would say they still care, but only on the products that give them money.

Windows nowadays doesn't give them money, at least not enough to really care, Azure, XBox, Office do.

I wouldn't be surprised if WSL2, with enough work, eventually grows up to be Xenix 2.0.

I get that, but an innocent bug is hardly the issue here. It's the job of the operating system vendor to provide a good experience by ensuring that common hardware works without having to install any additional bloatware. Instead, MS is forcing whatever crap hardware vendors made down the users' throat.

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