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Microsoft is trying to convince Windows 10 users to upgrade with full-screen prompts (www.theverge.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 8 months ago (17 children)

If only they didn't intentionally give up compatibility with 250 million PCs by introducing artificial CPU requirements, then adoption rate would be higher...

But blackrock and vanguard (they control ~15% of Microsoft, Intel, AMD) really needed to increase their profits by selling more CPUs...

Also it didn't help that until October 2023 the taskbar was completely broken and unusable, people like me forbid the installation of the os in the company for that reason alone

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If corporations would just end their love affair with exchange online and fucking outlook, maybe windows would go away

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Well, what is the alternative? Google? I don’t think that is a good trade.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

why not?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Just use NeXtCloUD

The reality is that there is no real alternative to the office suite including outlook. That is a real problem but just using Linux is not the answer.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Someone should let Microsoft know that they only have 18 months left to put out an OS that isn't a complete dumpster fire. Right now, I would take Vista over 11.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

The cycle continues

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I don't even get why they care. Can't you just inform users once, then drop support and still collect their data?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

But there so much more data they could also be collecting. Think of the poor multi billion international company.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

What's new? This has been going on since the launch of W11.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

I think now that I’ve moved most of my photo editing to my Mac and steam has propelled gaming on Linux into ‘very reasonable’ territory, it might be time to actually just ditch the ol’ windows. Only issue is I have an nvidia gpu atm unforch.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I’ve fully moved to Linux with a 3080ti. Only non functional feature is HDR but that’s mostly a Linux issue

I went with PopOs and have had a pretty smooth experience

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Not creepy at all/s

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago (4 children)

I took the free upgrade. Then after a bit I updated my bios and it killed my license. Microsoft wouldn't fix it and said I changed my hardware so there was nothing they could do. Still pissed off about that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

There's a mass grave way to get a new digital license from Microsoft 😉

Btw when I changed my motherboard and Windows deactivated, I called them and told them "it broke, then I replaced only the motherboard" (actually was an hardware upgrade) and they give the the phone activation codes. But that was during the Win7 era

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

That’s crazy. Not a Microsoft fanboy, but I’ve had issues like that after an actual board swap and they still have made it right (and technically they were in the right to disallow it), and they’ve fixed issues with transferring around my retail license that I’ve had since like Windows 7 because by now it’s been activated a bunch of times. Enshittification.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Wow that’s fucking annoying Jesus

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Not me. I kill any process that pops up in task manager whenever i have to connect to the net. Some of them are annoyingly persistent but so far no full screen popups

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

That sounds exhausting

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Also completely irrelevant and doesn’t do what he thinks he’s doing

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

If Microsoft gifts me a mobo that supports their new tmp2 or whatever then I'll switch, until then I'm sadly stuck on w10, oh the misery 🙃

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'll upgrade once Win11 is out of open beta. Almost once a week they patch in a bug that's inconvincing users, I don't have that issue with win10. I wish MS would spend that energy on bug fixing and QoL UI elements. Win11 has less taskbar options, you'd think they added them by now...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

No small taskbar icons option was bothersome for me. Have to deal with it on my work PC. So much lost screen space 😭

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This is in my top 10 reasons not to switch. You can make them small still via a registry edit, but then it messes up the date/time display.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I'd rather not be making regedits and of course can't even do that on a work device.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Used W11 for the first time recently, the lack of small task bar buttons blew my mind. Decluttering the task bar is the first thing I do on a new computer.

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