This feels exactly like the Microsoft of the IE6 era, if not worse.
The US and EU governments really need to come down hard on this, just like the latter did in the IE6 era.
This feels exactly like the Microsoft of the IE6 era, if not worse.
The US and EU governments really need to come down hard on this, just like the latter did in the IE6 era.
The build quality is great but I was immediately repulsed by a number of things: - forcing me to sign in with a Microsoft account - setting ‘new’ outlook as the default - ‘new’ outlook wanting to divert all Google workspaces emails (that I have set up for them) through onto outlook servers (….!!!!!) - a particularly weird one I wasn’t sure I’d be able to overcome when I accidentally set my keyboard to GB-en instead of US-En and couldn’t press enter (surely the walkthrough knows what sort of keyboard it’s got and won’t let you make a stupid choice before you’re even in on the desktop right? Wrong!!!)
I have to use windows machines at one of my workplaces (…a hospital) - it’s really jarring to see ads in the start menu
Pro tip I discovered by accident: If you type in any gibberish account name/email that doesn't exist, it will throw an error and move on with the setup without needing an account. No need to fuck with cmd line registry incantations or rufus.
>I have to use windows machines at one of my workplaces (…a hospital) - it’s really jarring to see ads in the start menu
Why didn't you remove them? I always do that.
Was unsure you could remove them! Honestly it feels so weird using Microsoft machines now; I’m very unused to feeling so transparently that I am the product (although Samsung tv s having ads seems pretty bloody rude as well)
Why wouldn't you be able to remove them ? Nobody would have used this if ads were not removable.
Just right click -> remove.
Are we going after one “monopoly” to help another one?
I want free and fair markets with competition to drive innovation and cost reductions.
Using dominance in one market to undercut or destroy competitors in another is the issue. Having a monopoly is not.
It's not in anyone's long term interest for the government to pick winners and losers. The law should not be applied selectively.
MacOS does have some “is this a bug or a dark pattern” situations, but it is in no way comparable to how much Microsoft pushes all this. It is more than a magnitude of difference between the two OSs
It will be interesting to see if Microsoft comes under fire for windows 11
Apple may not be as blatant as MS, but enshittification by shareholder eventually poops on us all.