I guess they know what's best for the user base, and this was obviously deemed not important. But boy did they get Copilot integrated in everything post haste.
Typical Microsoft hubris.
Until I read the story about how Steve Jobs was mad about the fact that Mac was slow to start and asked teams to fix it. Surprise, they fixed it.
And it's not like nobody could say anything at Microsoft. Someone on HN posted this email (originally from a different website):
https://www.techemails.com/p/bill-gates-tries-to-install-mov...
However, my guess is that this email got nowhere, because the experience of using Windows isn't so different decades later.
What this means is that 1) Microsoft is first and foremost a business oriented company, and what matters to them most is feature set, compatibility, support etc. As long as things mostly work, it's fine. Usability is at the bottom of the list. 2) Windows is just not important to Microsoft any more.
I bet that Satya Nadella has grumbles about bugs and ads in Windows 11, and likely has run into this specific bug first hand. But when he decides that "ads revenue trumps everything" and "these are just small bugs that don't really matter", he immediately forgets about it all.
That said, I don’t think I disagree with your diagnosis. I’m just afraid they’re lifting more bad parts than good.
IMO that's a far worse UX than update and shutdown turning the computer back on at the end.
[1] https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/406316/can-the-spa...
(I'm also not an early adopter. I only went to Sequoia from Ventura a few months ago.)
I haven't used Tahoe personally for more than a moment on someone else's computer, but wow they did not think that UI redesign through at all, did they. I'm actually kinda glad I'm mac-less now.
The fuck is Microsoft having all these engineers work all day on?
Rounding corners of UI elements, changing size of UI elements, reshufling UI elements, AI maybe.
It's however difficult to verify these stories.
The "Saving Lives" story I'm referring to is unverified but it does at least come from directly someone who was there.
In 2003 already; Amazing!
Blame their customers. Those people accepted random reboots for decades.
What was different then was that Steve Jobs actually loved computers and used them. That is not the case for our modern computing behemoths (Microsoft or Apple).
Dogfooding is a thing, and having a person in power who can say "no" is important.
Why should he? If he is really running Windows instead of macOS, what stops him from installing Windows Enterprise or IoT?
Does your company not have hundreds to thousands of backlogged tickets and bugs? Are there not different teams for different parts of the system? No triage policy for prioritizing work?
This is a high-visibility bug that users complain about often.
It would be nice to have somethig like Asus or Dell XPS, with Ubuntu LTS fully working laptop hardware at Dixons, FNAC, Publico, Worten, Cool Blue, Saturn, Media Markt,..... but it ain't happening.
However after the netbook phase, that is yet to happen again.
They are force to. Try to find a computer without an OS.
Torvalds has been harping for decades "you must sell preinstalled hardware" to gain traction with Linux, but I've never seen it executed on a scale big enough to be useful.
Probably race condition galore that was hard to repro.
That hubris combined with a whole bunch of decisions I resent/actively dislike and the hassle to opt out of things I never asked for is why for the first time since the late 80's I don't have any Microsoft OS's on any of my PC's.
I only used windows 11 for gaming and I don't really do that much anymore - I may have a look at steam/proton but not really in any hurry either.
90-95% of my computing life was spent inside Linux anyway.