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Windows users don't want copilot on their taskbar (windowscopilot.news)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I actually thought Microsoft was doing pretty well 2015-2020, then these past few years some of their decisions have felt really anti user

[–] [email protected] 38 points 7 months ago (3 children)

It's perfect timing too. Right as Linux becomes an extremely strong competitor (feature wise, not market share yet) they decide to enshitify more than they already were and decide to fuck the user. It made me leave about a year ago, and it's been amazing since.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

This is why they are doing it. They fear that Linux/MacOS/ChromeOS is eating their lunch. The problem is that their approach to preventing anyone else from eating their lunch is to make Shit Sandwiches.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Year of the Linux desktop!

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago (3 children)

They were doing ok. But the github thing and the 11 thing and the edging and now this - I can't wait to buy a machine that can run windows virtualised. I need it for my work apps, but this virt thing has been a dream of mine for a long time. Compartmentalization

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (2 children)

How do YOU edge?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

Microsoft edges me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Step one: start Chroming. Eventually you get so high (kill enough brain cells) that you chrome with blue paint instead. That is called Edging.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

github thing?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, what happened with GitHub?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

They bought it and fed it into copilot. My guess what they mean.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Maybe they’re upset that you need an account to use some of the search features?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Bought github, doing shitty ai crap with it etc, forcing logins

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I hated them since Windows 8. Ughh. Was the year of my Linux desktop. I still keep a Win7, WinXP and DOS/Win98 machine around but that's it for me.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Microsoft, forever and always, will keep trying to pivot Windows to whatever they think the Next Big Thing is going to be, and then fuck it up every time. They tried to pivot to Mobile (Windows Mobile), then Tablets (8, 8.1), then digital assistants (Win 10 Cortana), then 3D (Win 10 Paint3D, 3D Objects folder) and AR (why a bunch of Win10 got the semitransparent glass aesthetic), now AI. Maybe they got ahead of the curve enough to be the "leader" in "AI" this time, but that doesn't make it a Good Operating System.