Please allow me to link you to an article on Neowin where the author hits every single check box I have vice one.
The one check box not marked in the article above for me is, the “Insider Program”. The author talks about time frames of, for example, wasting 13 years of work on the Control Panel / Settings fiasco they began way back in Windows 8. It continues into Windows 11 and its still a dogs breath.
There are other issues where the Insiders are causing hell on earth with all the gamer creature features and Microsoft not heeding that, not everyone will use nor have the same hardware. Leave the video aspect to the third party vendors already.
And finally. Two things. 1- If I wanted my desktop to loo like the MacOS I would more than likely have purchased an Apple product already. I’m just not into and never have been into that overpriced thing going on with Apple. 2- The hype about TPM and stringent hardware requirements for Windows 11 are a bunch of BS. There are recent issues with CPU’s themselves being able to load malware even before the BIOS hands off to the OS. MS security in those instances are mooted and also a dogs breath. Give us an OS that doesn’t “recall” every move and have AI read our data. MS owns the software, not the hardware running it. Government needs to get its head out of that deep dark spot about that and protect consumers for a change.
SA
As a follow-up to the thread, Microsoft has now force installed KB5001716 for those who have Windows 10 21H2 / 22H2 as well as Windows 11 21H2. The update will begin nagging users about the upcoming end of support for these three version of Windows. For Windows 11 its more of about updating to 24H2 and installing enablement for the upcoming 25H2 release that is slated for later in 2025. BUT!! Make no mistake, Microsoft is ALL about what other companies are already doing. Bugging users with their sell-up propaganda and do so as long as it takes for consumers to just give up and give in. So let the pestering and annoyances begin. In the end its going to bite Microsoft hard in the backside, if, for no other reason due to the economic clown show happening.
SA
A few months have passed since beginning posing regarding the direction Microsoft has headed with the EOL/EOS of Windows 10. And its industry chocking restrictions to install and use Windows 11 without dumping the worlds largest toxic mess into landfills around the globe for no good reason other than? You guess it, AI and big money. So here in the scoop.
Microsoft lost its behind with Windows phone and it had one of the best OS’s out there as well as devices that weren’t even on the market at the time. The also failed in a big way with Surface Duo that followed on, so now. They are doubling down in Co-Pilot +, AI garbage and the expense of it. So they can extract your data and mine for Co-Pilot and their full intent on Windows 11 “as a service”, subscription based. I said before there would be mountains moved at Microsoft about this very issue. Please read the linked article. It lays bare what I would like to write here and saves me having to write a novel, lol. Another prediction for everyone. Big changes will happen just the same as when Windows 10 hit the pavement. Stay the course. MS is losing its arse and their CEO is most likely on his way out as well. Its past time for change over there. They’ve set the industry model where they don’t test or QA much anymore and release buggy software to users and garner “telemetry”. Thats just a cute way of sticking it to customers and doing it on the cheap, nothing more.
SA