New features every month?
Can we just get a reliable and stable operating system? (not an ad-pushing eye-tiring time-wasting gimmick)
Microsoft has released the Windows 11 2022 Update – and promised that it will both continue issuing annual big bang releases and start to add new features on a monthly cadence. Panos Panay, Microsoft’s executive vice president and chief product officer for Windows + Devices, has billed the update – also known as the 22H2 …
I read the whole article and all I could think, in the voice of Marvin the Paranoid Android, was: "sounds ghastly".
Hey Microsoft. Instead of faffing around trying to figure out when a user's electricity is carbon-free, vegan, macrobiotic and gender-neutral, how about you - and I know this sounds crazy! - allow users to decide for themselves when to install updates? Sounds revolutionary, doesn't it? Go on. It'll be super difficult to implement but I know you can do it...
While Windows makes up a smaller part of the overall revenue for the company, it’s still significant and the simple fact is bug fixes and under the hood improvements don’t shift new units. Without some user-facing features that basically beat you over the head with their presence, people won’t upgrade.
> The only reason people pay for new Windows licences is that their previous one is no
> longer supported. Essentially, it's expired.
Which is weird, 'cause you can still use a Windows 7 key to activate Windows 11. Even though it shouldn't work that way since Windows 10 1607, it still works. Might be a technical reason for this, and they cannot fix the bug else a lot of legit copies suddenly would start to complain...
Whether the Windows 7 license, if OEM, may be reused this way is a different matter. For private computer MS does not care that much, but they have an eye on companies.
This is the reason why "Activation" came with Windows XP and Office 2003 in first place: Companies buying ONE copy of Windows 2000 and office 2000, but used that single copy on several thousand computers. Just like those companies did the years before with Win98/WinNT 4.0, Office 97 etc etc down to Altair Basic.
Panos Panay, Microsoft’s executive vice president and chief product officer for Windows + Devices, has billed the update [...] as offering “many subtle, but important changes that come together to help you be your most productive and your most creative.”
Run and hide.
Run.
And.
Hide.
Panos Panay, Microsoft’s executive vice president and chief product officer for Windows + Devices, has billed the update [...] as offering “many subtle, but important changes that come together to help you be your most productive and your most creative.”
My fixed version.
Panos Panay, Microsoft’s executive vice president and spyware as a service officer for Windows + Devices, has billed the update [...] as offering “many unnecessary, but annoying changes that make us lots of juicy profit and help us gather as much private info on you to bolster our ad and marketing department revenues.”
It finally came to the point where I had use Win11. Work, dontcha know.
The first thing I can tell you is that it's easy to move the Start bar to the left.
The second thing is that old Control Panel stuff is still there.
The third is yeah, it takes a day or two to figure out where things got moved to, but it still mostly works just like Win 10.
The fourth is yes, you have to clear out the junkware, but it's no more than usual.
I got the latest version, and it worked fine right out of the box. I just installed this new update today. No problems there either.
I'll be putting it into production later this week. I will off course, be complaining about it from now on, but honestly, it seems no worse than Win 10 now that they've fixed most of the previous Win 11 blunders.
Heck, MS even bought back a built-in video editor! ClipChamp. (remind you of anything?)
And no, I will never be an MS fanboi, but work dictates needs and I like paying the bills. Not a lot of jobs for Linux support in my region. Too bad because I love Linux.
1. Once you google how to do it, yes.
2. For now, but more and more is leaving bit by bit.
3. Yesyesyes. Let me waste my time and energy relearning something that shouldn't need to be. It is my ass on the line when I can't do my job fast enough cause they decided to move things. AGAIN
4. get-appxpackage -allusers | remove-appxpackage is not a command I should need to have to memorize.
11 hasn't fixed a lot of the issue that it has had since the release. Still the same even worse than 8 Start Menu. Still have the volume, network, and battery control put together. Everything is designed around only for touch so it is a terrible experience with a mouse. The safe round corner need to go. Along with the fake glass effect. Then there is the sysreq which seem like a back door into DRMing computer even more so.
It’s not a panacea, but I swear if people spent some time to learn to use the search function instead of trying to sort everything, a lot of complaints about “they moved Feature X to a new location” would stop pretty quickly. Then you only need to work on sorting things like important documents or apps you may not use on a regular basis.
"if people spent some time to learn to use the search function instead of trying to sort everything, a lot of complaints about “they moved Feature X to a new location” would stop pretty quickly."
Yeahbut, Search only works if you know what you are looking for. And if you know what you are looking for, a user adjustable hierarchical menu is quicker because if if stuff is where you put it, then it's where you expect it, not hidden away in some ever changing location depending on if there is a "Y" in the name of the current day.
I'd settle for being able to set the bar at the top of the screen (sans hacked work around) and also for the open apps from said bar to reliably allow me to switch between several instances of those apps. Right now it doesn't for explorer for example.
There's also issues with disappearing icons in the taskbar overflow feature.
No more bells and whistles please, fix the basics!
Simple - erase it. Install a proper operating system. Perhaps one that doesn't cost anything, comes with built-in security, proper networking and lots of free, high quality applications, and works well "straight out of the box". One that provides a nice-looking desktop that aligns with UX paradigms that have been around for many years, to minimise the need to re-train staff.....
> proper operating system
This is defined by what you want to do or have to do. The OS does not matter, the applications do. So the proper OS is not defined by some religious type of thinking and definition on what is proper.
Linux has its place and got irreplaceable for a lot of things. But not as Desktop OS. Especially when it come to applications there are many gaps.
Get following combination: Mail, Web, Video editing including "pure stream copy" in an easy to use GUI, TV recording (DVB-S2), ffmpeg for final encoding, > 1000 games installed, RAID+Snapshots+encryption (+deduplication on server) in one easy to use way, the ability to run binaries from before 1999 as long as they were somewhat clean written (like Starcraft 1, DeltaForce 1), etc etc etc... No way to get everything done with a Linux. And don't throw that "compile it!" - that is not the reality when the source is from before 2000.
Last fresh install was in 2011 with Windows 7, then upgrade to 8, 8.1, 10 (1511) and now 11. Though the latter only for Nested-V with AMD, else it would still be W10. The only upgrade that did not work as when battleye was still in the system, somehwere 'round Win10 17xx or 18xx.
" using the “43 trillion security signals” Microsoft states it gathers every day."
Ahh, that's where all the Internet bandwidth went. And we thought it was down to 4K pr0n streaming. Nope, it was alllllll those Cortanas out there sending their thousand points of light back to Redmond several times a day. Gosh, those must be chatty little services.
Thanks for watching out for us, Microsoft, and not wasting our time or resources on needless bullshit.
Every 22621.* build has following problem: "Previous Version" tab in explorer shows no previous version. Wanna get your data from the restore points windows does more ore less regular? You should have a backup!
The shadowcopies are still there, can be seen with vssadmin, but you cannot access them. It is a broken NtFsControlFile function in either kernel32.dll or ntdll.dll.
Reported several times since June including insider feed-backs and Forums etc etc.
I suspect it will be fixed in January or February.
I heavily use Shadowcopies on top of my backup, and with my two scripts you get real control for workstation Windows.
You suspect it will be fixed, but most likely Microsoft will mark as "won't fix" and then get Raymond Chen to write a snarky, patronising blog entry about how Microsoft has done the right thing and everyone else in the world is an idiot. Again.
Aside from being on the slow side, this app is what the windows file manager should be. Microsoft needs to just buy it, improve the performance, and then make it the official file manager for the OS. Or they can just buy it and integrate some of the code to the existing file manager. Don’t care as long as the end result is that we get something like the Files App.
Microsoft needs to just buy it, improve the performance, and then make it the official file manager for the OS.
If Micros~1 were to buy it, what in the name of $DIETY makes you think they will improve the performance? Or improve anything? Most likely, they will simple regulate it to Storage B, and you will never see it again.
“Windows 11 uses the power of AI to generate a continually updated app control policy that allows common and known safe apps to run while blocking unknown apps often associated with new malware,”
I'm sure there's a simple answer to this, but how is anyone supposed to develop or publish new software?
Microsoft will allow all software to run exactly once on each machine, so malware had better do all the damage the first time.
In all seriousness, I've found that Endpoint Protection will fairly consistently allow a "potentially dangerous" application to run the first time, then block subsequent executions.
Which is both utterly pointless and incredibly frustrating.
MS standard operating procedure is to present as having huge benefits those aspects at which they suck. In the late Ballmer era "innovate" appeared in any and every press release usually several times.
So : "the power of AI". We shall be seeing this from MS from now on until they realise something else gets more attention.
How about just getting the thing right, from the get-go? Things like if there are too many open programs there’s no overflow area (there is with this update, but we used to have it, so why not now?)?
Or when you right-click on a file, you have to go to additional options to see them all?
Or make it so you can actually click on the system tray icons when there is notification after notification blocking the area?
Silly little things that they just don’t care enough about and can’t be bothered to get right, at the expense of getting monthly new features.
Quite a change from Micros~1's advertisement around 2000 where they pointed out open source os can change and pictured a mutating penguin.
Most of the rest of Windows 11 is fine. But that start menu is stupid and annoying. I turned off recommendations so why is it still showing me the recommendations section even though it is blank? Why can't it use that area to show more pinned apps? Come to that, why is pinning and arranging apps so retrograde?