Tl;dr: no.
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Microsoft did one good thing: they finally got me to jump to a Linux based OS on my PC.
Same
Why did they not just keep windows 10, change the background picture and icons and call it windows 11?
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You're absolutely right about this. I jumped ships too.
Do they ever?
Moving from a shitty proprietary web renderer to participate in Chromium development was an improvement.
I disagree. Doing so reduced the amount of diversity in rendering engines and reinforced the idea that lazy site owners don't have to test against more than one browser. That's a loss for the Web as a whole.
Microsoft: Kills crappy, insecure browser no one used and everyone hated.
Lemmy: BAD!
And now they moved to another crappy engine ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ what changed? Nothing much, except that they are locked in with Google's bs.
Nothing changed going from IE Edge to Chromium Edge. Say that with a straight face next time.
At the time people welcomed it; Trident really was terrible. However, since then Gecko's marketshare has fallen into the single digits on account of Mozilla's terrible governance. WebKit isn't exactly a big alternative, either (and is often regarded as the new Trident in terms of web standard adherence). Opera used to have Presto but nope, that's also Chromium now.
That means we're now stuck in a situation where an advertising company controls how the web works for 75% of all users. And they're happily abusing that power.
I'm rooting for Servo and Ladybird as new entrants into the market but both are small projects trying to challenge a multi-billion dollar industry titan who wants the web to be as complex as possible so that only they and their token competitors can exist.
We might actually have been better off with Microsoft trying to keep Trident relevant.
Tried that browser on Linux. It crashes when you save a file. It doesn't let you click on the URL bar to edit it (only keyboard works). "If it compiles, it ships, no testing needed"
The dumped legacy protocols and defaults that were insecure. That’s pretty big for a company that historically doesn’t do that.
There are some decent performance and memory improvements in .Net 10, particularly around iterators and local variables within iterator scopes.
Beyond that, na, not much.
A .Net dev in the flesh? I'll pray for you /s
.NET is an excellent platform, c# and typescript are amazing (made by the same guy btw.), Visual Studio and VSCode are the best in their categories.
Nothing really replace Excel (don't even mention LibreOffice, that's gonna make you look like a dunkey)
Gaming and hardware support still better on Windows.
The spyware are perfected like no other company can make them, as their nagging system, which you can't really get rid of.
Scaling your infrastructure on Azure is the easiest, as for scaling your bills, it's demonstrated in TFA.
Having some price hikes, from time to time, keep the excitement alive, see the latest github price hike tentative.
When was the last time they did anything right? I manage their products and services for a living. It all sucks to some degree. It's just the default because they cornered the market a long time ago and continue to strangle it to death with legacy garbage. Now they don't innovate, they acquire other shit to compete where they shouldn't, fail, rinse and repeat.
So the only win here is that you got to extend your time on Windows 10 for one year. That isn't saying much because you're just going to confront the same issues again, a year later. Again, do yourself a favor and grab the Windows 10 version that guarantees you til 2032. By then, you could skip Windows 11 entirely and see what else is on the horizon.
I maintain that Microsoft peaked with Windows 3.1 and they've been fucking it up ever since.
I think peak was XP.
Vista was shit. 7 was alright, but not better than XP. 8 was terrible. 10 was worse than 7, but still meh. 11 is dog shit.
XP was when everything went to shit. It was awful and all the enshittification began right there.
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